28-12-2010Web magazine
In the period 2005–2010, the Dutch population grew by 269 thousand, i.e. 1.6 percent.
23-12-2010Web magazine
Nearly one in every ten live-born babies were born to single mothers last year. Nine in ten were born to couples living together.
21-12-2010Web magazine
Last year, 13 thousand Poles came to the Netherlands versus 14 thousand in 2008.
17-12-2010Press release
The rate of the demographic ageing process in the Netherlands will double in the years to come. In the period 2011-2015, the over-65 population will grow by half a million versus a quarter of a million in the period 2006-2010.
14-12-2010Web magazine
Nearly 23 thousand people received the Dutch nationality through naturalisation in 2009.
09-12-2010Web magazine
In 2009, 2,636 babies were born in the Netherlands to mothers younger than 20 years. This makes the Dutch teenage birth rate one of the lowest in the world.
03-12-2010Web magazine
Early 2009, more than 17.5 thousand people aged between 18 and 65 were homeless in the Netherlands, i.e. 17 in every 10 thousand residents in this age group.
02-12-2010Web magazine
Last year, 30 thousand people with a non-western background got married in the Netherlands. In 9 percent of cases, the partners came to the Netherlands to marry.
30-11-2010Web magazine
A total of 1,525 people committed suicide in the Netherlands last year.
25-11-2010Press release
The second generation, born in the Netherlands, is starting to become the face of the population with a non-western background in Dutch society
11-11-2010Web magazine
The number of couples celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary reached a record high in 2010. This is related to the peak in marriages around 1970.
20-10-2010Web magazine
One in six couples who married around 1970 were divorced 20 years later. The ratio for couples married in the early 1990s will be one in four.
12-10-2010Web magazine
Since 10 October 2010, the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, Saba and Saint Eustatius have officially acquired the status of Dutch municipalities. As a result, 18 thousand new citizens were added to the Dutch population.
16-09-2010Web magazine
Early this year 1,743 Dutch residents were one hundred years of age or older, an increase in absolute figures by 115 relative to 2009. For the first time in years, there was an increase in male centenarians.
24-08-2010Web magazine
A majority in the Dutch population have confidence in their fellow men and in various national and international institutions. The Netherlands takes up a prominent position in Europe in this respect.
12-08-2010Press release
The population of the Netherlands increased by 83 thousand persons from mid 2009 to mid 2010.
20-07-2010Web magazine
During the recent period of high temperatures, which ran almost uninterruptedly from 23 June to Monday 12 July, an estimated 500 extra lives were lost above the average for this time of year.
06-07-2010Web magazine
An increasing percentage of young adults return to live with their parents for a time after having left home. The main reasons for this increase in the number of ‘boomerang children’ are relationship break-ups and completed or interrupted education.
06-07-2010Web magazine
Relatively more men born in the period 1945-1964 are childless than women of the same generation. In addition, those who do have children are three years older on average than women born in the same period.
01-06-2010Web magazine
Post-war baby boomers are relatively wealthy. Households, in which the main breadwinner is aged between 50 and 65, are relatively often found in the highest income brackets and more often than people in other income groups, they have accumulated a large personal fortune.
27-05-2010Web magazine
The proportion of car drivers in fatal road accidents is higher in the 18–25 age category than among over-25s. Young drivers also more often crash into trees, crash barriers or posts.
27-04-2010Web magazine
Generally, the participation rate among over-55s in social activities is relatively high, but the contact rate with friends and acquaintances for over-75s is below average. They also less frequently do volunteer work or provide informal help.
13-04-2010Web magazine
In recent years, fewer children were adopted in the Netherlands. Over the period 2004-2008, the number of adoptions was almost reduced by half.
30-03-2010Web magazine
Last year, 28 thousand native Dutch left the Netherlands to settle elsewhere, i.e. 9 thousand fewer than in record year 2006. The most popular destinations were Belgium and Germany.
11-02-2010Web magazine
On 1 January last year, 820 unmarried couples were living together in the Netherlands. More than half had cohabitation agreements.
10-02-2010Press release
In 2009, emigration decreased and immigration increased. The net population growth was 92 thousand, an increase by just over 10 thousand relative to 2008.
28-01-2010Web magazine
Life expectancy for girls born in the Netherlands in 2008 was 82.3 years, 4 years higher than for boys (78.3 years). Since 1980, the life expectancy gender gap has narrowed.
28-01-2010Web magazine
In 2008, the average, first-generation, non-western woman was more than one year older when she had her first child than in 1996. The average age for native Dutch women to become first-time mothers rose by nearly six months over the same period.
12-01-2010Web magazine
Some 30 thousand Dutch couples separated by using the flash divorce procedure in the period 2001-2009. The highest numbers of flash divorces were recorded in the years from 2003 to 2005, when around 5 thousand couples annually separated using this procedure.
12-01-2010Web magazine
Four years after their separation, half of divorced men have remarried or live together with new partners. Divorced women are much more often living alone four years later.