23-12-2011Web magazine
In 2016, the projected population of the Netherlands will reach 17 million.
23-12-2011Web magazine
In regions where the population has shrunk over the period 2005-2008, people’s socio-economic conditions have worsened.
16-12-2011Web magazine
Parts of the provinces of Groningen, Zeeland and Limburg have been declared areas of decline by the Dutch central government. Municipalities there with declining populations will be eligible for compensation by central government if they meet certain criteria.
29-11-2011Web magazine
On 31 December 2009, there were 900 transsexuals in the Netherlands; 850 of them were included in the 15-65 age category (potential labour force).
24-11-2011Web magazine
Between 2000 and 2010 the life expectancy of newborn babies has increased substantially. For males it rose from 75.5 to 78.8 years and for females from 80.6 to 82.7. The remaining life expectancy at 65 increased from 15.3 to 17.6 years for men.
23-11-2011Web magazine
Dutch municipal authorities report 65 thousand persons as missing on an annual basis.
22-11-2011Web magazine
In 2010 some 34.5 thousand citizens with a foreign background married in the Netherlands. A quarter of these newly weds had a Turkish or Moroccan background.
12-10-2011Press release
The population in the Randstad region continues its unabated growth. Between 2010 and 2015, the population in the four Randstad provinces will increase by an expected 700 thousand, and the number of households will rise by more than 400 thousand.
06-10-2011Web magazine
More and more Dutch couples are meeting via the internet or at work, while fewer people met on an evening out or on holiday in the last ten years.
27-09-2011Web magazine
The number of fathers over the age of 40 at childbirth is growing.
05-09-2011Web magazine
The population of The Hague is anticipated to surpass the 500 thousand mark in September this year, having grown by nearly 60 thousand since the turn of the century. The proportion of young residents under the age of 20 has increased markedly and at the same time, the proportion of over-65s has declined.
24-08-2011Web magazine
11-08-2011Press release
In the first six months of 2011, more than 58 thousand people left the Netherlands, i.e. nearly 5 thousand more than in the same period last year.
26-07-2011Web magazine
Early 2011, nearly 200 thousand people from Central and Eastern Europe had registered as residents or workers in the Netherlands. Their number has more than doubled over the past five years.
12-07-2011Web magazine
Although the number of elderly people in the Netherlands is growing rapidly, the number of them living in care and nursing homes is decreasing.
12-07-2011Web magazine
The population in Dutch cities has grown notably in recent years. The population growth rate is particularly high in the three major cities in the Netherlands.
07-07-2011Web magazine
During the first decade of the 21st century, the relative population growth in the Netherlands was higher than in the European Union as a whole. In no other country in the EU 27, the contribution of migration to population growth was so small as in the Netherlands.
07-07-2011Web magazine
In the past three years, the number of young families in the Netherlands has increased. The number of first-time mothers has risen from 82 thousand in 2008 to nearly 86 thousand in 2010.
07-06-2011Web magazine
One in five 18 to 64 year-old men in the Netherlands lived alone in 2010. For women this was just over one in six.
26-05-2011Web magazine
Last year, one in ten women who married for the first time were over the age of 40 versus one in hundred in 1980. As more and more couples live together before they marry, the marriage date is more often postponed.
19-05-2011Web magazine
The number of multiple births has been in decline in the Netherlands since 2003. In recent years, usually only 1 egg cell is replaced in the uterus during in vitro fertilisation, resulting in a considerable reduction in twin births.
17-05-2011Web magazine
More children living at home have older parents. Nearly one in three parents with children living at home were in their fifties in 2010.
05-04-2011Web magazine
The number of households in the Netherlands is expected to grow fast over the next few decades.
15-03-2011Web magazine
Nearly 10 thousand partnerships were registered in 2010 versus more than 2 thousand in 2001. Since 2001, the number of registered partnerships has risen continually.
22-02-2011Web magazine
Forty years ago to the day, on 27 February 1971, the first abortion clinic opened its doors in the Netherlands. Approximately 28 thousand abortions are carried out on women living in the Netherlands every year.
17-02-2011Press release
Labour participation and economic independence of women increase in spite of crisis.
09-02-2011Press release
On 1 January 2011, the population of the Netherlands stood at 16.7 million, i.e. 80 thousand more than one year previously. In 2010, the previous immigration record of 2009 was marginally exceeded, but emigration increased faster.
01-02-2011Web magazine
The risk of dying from cancer is declining. The risk for men and women to die from cancer dropped by 14 and 5 percent respectively in 2010 relative to 2000, but the cancer death toll has increased due to population growth and demographic ageing.
