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Preparations for the 2025 revision of the Standard Industrial Classification (or SBI) are in full swing at Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

faq Why have I been assigned a different SBI code when my activities have not changed?

Lesbian, gay and bi-plus adults experienced worse mental health than heterosexual adults in 2023 and 2024

faq The SBI code assigned to my business is incorrect. What should I do?

The economic picture was more negative in January than in December.

The economic picture was more negative in July than in June.

The economic picture was more negative in April than in March.

On 1 January 2024, 5.5 percent of households in the Netherlands had assets worth 1 million euros or more

Business owners expect to invest more in 2026 than they are investing this year

The number of elderly people in the Netherlands continues to grow. People aged 65 and over now outnumber young people aged under 20 for the first time.

The economic picture was slightly more negative in March than in February.

In 2024, young adults in the Netherlands were more likely to have negative views on crime, the size of the population and the mentality of people than they had in 2018.

The economic picture was more negative in October than in September.

A total of 759 people were killed in road traffic accidents in 2025, 84 more than the previous year.

The number of union members under the age of 45 has risen after years of decline.

The quantity of pollutants discharged from sewage treatment plants into surface water has risen over the last two years, having previously fallen for many years.

At the start of 2026, there were over 2 million fully electric, hybrid or plug-in hybrid vehicles in the Netherlands. That was nearly 6 percent more than in 2025.

At the start of 2026, there were 2,551 people aged 100 or older living in the Netherlands, 82 percent of whom were women.

Almost 333 million tonnes of cargo was transported by inland vessels over the Netherlands’ inland waterways in 2025. That was almost the same volume as in 2024.

A total of 52.2 million guests stayed at hotels, campsites, and holiday parks in the Netherlands in 2025.

In 2025, 92 percent of men with an employment contract took paternity leave after their baby was born.

In 2024, 4 percent of businesses dealt with at least one cyber incident resulting from an external attack.

The populations of 176 freshwater species that live in streams, rivers and marshes have increased by an average of nearly 60 percent.

A total of 5,600 people obtained a PhD at a Dutch university in the 2023/’24 academic year, with roughly equal numbers of women and men

Among asylum applicants aged 18 to 64 whose applications were accepted and were granted residence status in the Netherlands in 2024, 13 percent were in work within three months.