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Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is the only official statistics institute in the Netherlands.

In recent years, vaccination rates among children have fallen in many countries, including the Netherlands.

A public campaign to raise awareness of statistical data among citizens of the Caribbean Netherlands was launched in 2025.

What is the impact of crime on its victims?

Recent years have seen a succession of global crises, each of which has led to temporary disruptions to trade around the world: Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, the energy crisis and the recent...

Climate change, chemical pollution, acidification of the oceans - these are all examples of what happens when we go beyond the limits of what our planet can support: planetary boundaries.

The global financial crisis of 2008 showed that it is vital to understand real estate bubbles as they emerge.

This year, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) launched an awareness campaign in the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, St Eustatius, and Saba) to highlight the importance of data to the general public.

Every day, Statistics Netherlands’ (CBS) Infoservice and Press Office receive dozens of calls and emails from individuals and organisations with questions on the many themes that CBS produces...

The European statistics office Eurostat held its fifth European Big Data Hackathon in Brussels between 6 and 11 March 2025.

Starting Wednesday 30 April 2025, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) will publish its first estimates of quarterly economic growth and labour market indicators 30 days after the end of each quarter.

This year, the International Statistical Institute (ISI) will host the 65th World Statistics Congress in The Hague from 5 to 9 October.

The European Green Deal was presented by the European Commission in 2019 and comprises several policy agreements in the areas of climate change and the energy transition, environmental quality and...

In late 2024, Pearl Dykstra delivered her farewell speech at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) collects, processes, analyses and publishes data.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has recently published its updated Statistical Disclosure Control Guide, which sets out the policy rules for protecting respondents’ privacy in its publications.

In September 2024, a delegation from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine paid a study visit to Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

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

Statistics Netherlands’ (CBS) has a highly diverse workforce that includes people of different ages, nationalities, cultural backgrounds and sexual orientation from various educational backgrounds...

Statistics Netherlands (known in Dutch as ‘Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek’ or CBS) is a name that the majority of Dutch people are familiar with.

The Dutch area of the North Sea is our country’s largest nature reserve, but it is also used intensively by maritime traffic and for wind farms, for example.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has recently appointed its first Chief Data Officer.

On 6 March 2024, the fourth IBDS Café was held at Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

Once every ten years, there is a special day within CBS: the day when, after a long and concerted effort, the most recent census is finalised.

CBS uses scientifically proven methods to guarantee the quality of its products and services.