Foreign controlled enterprises in The Netherlands

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Foreign controlled enterprises in The Netherlands
SIC 2008 Countries Periods Financial details Number of self-employed persons (x 1 000)
78 Employment activities Locus of control: domestic and foreign 2021 654,923
78 Employment activities Locus of control: domestic 2021 556,053
78 Employment activities Locus of control: foreign 2021 98,870
78 Employment activities Equally-shared control 2021 0
78 Employment activities European Union 2021 31,210
78 Employment activities Non EU 2021 67,659
78 Employment activities Locus of control: Extra EU-27 not allo.. 2021 0
78 Employment activities Locus of control: Offshore fin. centres 2021 .
78 Employment activities Asia 2021 .
78 Employment activities Afghanistan 2021 .
78 Employment activities Albania 2021 .
78 Employment activities Algeria 2021 .
78 Employment activities American-Samoa 2021 .
78 Employment activities American Virgin Islands 2021 .
78 Employment activities Andorra 2021 .
78 Employment activities Angola 2021 .
78 Employment activities Anguilla 2021 .
78 Employment activities Antartica 2021 .
78 Employment activities Antigua and Barbuda 2021 .
78 Employment activities Argentina 2021 .
78 Employment activities Armenia 2021 .
78 Employment activities Aruba 2021 .
78 Employment activities Australia 2021 .
78 Employment activities Azerbaijan 2021 .
78 Employment activities Bahamas 2021 .
78 Employment activities Bhutan 2021 .
78 Employment activities Bahrain 2021 .
78 Employment activities Bangladesh 2021 .
78 Employment activities Barbados 2021 .
78 Employment activities Belgium 2021 20,555
78 Employment activities Belize 2021 .
78 Employment activities Benin 2021 .
78 Employment activities Bermuda 2021 .
78 Employment activities Bolivia 2021 .
78 Employment activities Bosnia and Herzegovina 2021 .
78 Employment activities Botswana 2021 .
78 Employment activities Bouvet Island 2021 .
78 Employment activities Brazil 2021 .
78 Employment activities British Indian Ocean Territory 2021 .
78 Employment activities British Virgin Islands 2021 .
78 Employment activities Brunei 2021 .
78 Employment activities Bulgaria 2021 .
78 Employment activities Burkina Faso 2021 .
78 Employment activities Burundi 2021 .
78 Employment activities Cambodia 2021 .
78 Employment activities Canada 2021 .
78 Employment activities Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba 2021 .
78 Employment activities Cayman Islands 2021 .
78 Employment activities Central African Republic 2021 .
78 Employment activities Chile 2021 .
78 Employment activities China 2021 0
78 Employment activities Christmas Island 2021 .
78 Employment activities Cocos Islands 2021 .
78 Employment activities Colombia 2021 .
78 Employment activities Comoros 2021 .
78 Employment activities Congo 2021 .
78 Employment activities Congo (Democratic Republic) 2021 .
78 Employment activities Cook Islands 2021 .
78 Employment activities Costa Rica 2021 .
78 Employment activities Cuba 2021 .
78 Employment activities Curaçao 2021 .
78 Employment activities Cyprus 2021 .
78 Employment activities Denmark 2021 0
78 Employment activities Djibouti 2021 .
78 Employment activities Dominica 2021 .
78 Employment activities Dominican Republic 2021 .
78 Employment activities Germany 2021 369
78 Employment activities Ecuador 2021 .
78 Employment activities Egypt 2021 .
78 Employment activities El Salvador 2021 .
78 Employment activities Equatorial Guinea 2021 .
78 Employment activities Eritrea 2021 .
78 Employment activities Estonia 2021 0
78 Employment activities Eswatini 2021 .
78 Employment activities Ethiopia 2021 .
78 Employment activities Faroe Islands 2021 .
78 Employment activities Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 2021 .
78 Employment activities Fiji 2021 .
78 Employment activities Philippines 2021 .
78 Employment activities Finland 2021 0
78 Employment activities France 2021 8,381
78 Employment activities French Southern Territories 2021 .
78 Employment activities French Polynesia 2021 .
78 Employment activities Gabon 2021 .
78 Employment activities Gambia 2021 .
78 Employment activities Georgia 2021 .
78 Employment activities Ghana 2021 .
78 Employment activities Gibraltar 2021 .
78 Employment activities Grenada 2021 .
78 Employment activities Greece 2021 0
78 Employment activities Greenland 2021 .
78 Employment activities Guam 2021 .
78 Employment activities Guatemala 2021 .
78 Employment activities Guernsey 2021 .
78 Employment activities Guinea-Bissau 2021 .
78 Employment activities Guinea 2021 .
78 Employment activities Guyana 2021 .
78 Employment activities Haiti 2021 .
78 Employment activities Heard Island and McDonald Islands 2021 .
78 Employment activities Honduras 2021 .
Source: CBS.
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This table covers the financial data (such as operating expenses and revenues) and employment of companies in the Netherlands controlled by an institutional unit abroad. The data are consistent with Eurostat's Foreign Affiliates Statistics (FATS).

Data available from: 2021.

Status of the figures:
2021 figures are final.

Changes as of March 11, 2024:
None, this is a new table. This table is the successor of the table "Foreign control companies in the Netherlands; 2008-2020" which reports at a different SBI level. Data in this table can be compared, where SBI, UCI and subject match (see paragraph 3).

When will new figures be published?
New figures will appear in the fall of 2024.

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Financial details
Number of self-employed persons
The number of persons employed is defined as the total number of persons who work in the observation unit (inclusive of working proprietors, partners working regularly in the unit and unpaid family workers), as well as persons who work outside the unit who belong to it and are paid by it (e.g. sales representatives, delivery personnel, repair and maintenance teams). Included are persons absent for a short period (due to illness, paid vacation, special leave, etc.) and strikers, but not those who are absent indefinitely. It does include part-time workers considered as such under the laws of the country concerned and on the payroll, as well as seasonal workers, apprentices and home workers on the payroll.
Persons employed do not include workers loaned to the unit by other enterprises, persons performing repair and maintenance work in the observed unit for other enterprises, and conscripts.
Non-paid cooperating family members means persons living in the household of the unit owner who regularly perform work for the unit without having a contract of employment or receiving a fixed payment for the work they perform. This includes only persons who do not work as their principal occupation in another unit and are on the payroll there.