They have had 17,953 (diagnosed) cases and 1766 deaths compared with 124,632 cases and 15,362 deaths in Italy. Math wasn’t my major in college, but it seems like the Dutch are doing better than Italy.
They also have a third of the population of Italy. You cannot compare today’s death counts. Both countries are on different curves of the progression of the matter before us.
Except of wiki re pop and density:
The Netherlands is the 64th most populated country in the world, and as of March 21, 2016, it has a population of 17,000,000. As of November 1, 2019 the Netherlands has population of 17,424,978.
The Netherlands is the 16th most densely populated country in the world, and the 5th most densely populated country in Europe.
Bangladesh is the only country (if not counting the small city states) larger in total area than and with a higher population density than the Netherlands.