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Government spending exceeded revenues by 3 billion euros in the first half of 2025

Revenue and expenditure, net balance and debt in million euros and as a percentage of GDP. High Value Dataset – Statistiek

To what extent would the Netherlands be able to absorb a major shock in the short run? Would our nature, and social and economic structures be strong enough to cope with that?

Government consumption was the main source of economic growth in 2024.

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

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has made plans for the future based on discussions with stakeholders. The results are described in this Multi-annual Programme for 2024-2028.

A methodological study into the productivity of the Dutch public sector with calculations for the courts, public prosecution service and the police

A methodological study into the productivity of the Dutch public sector with calculations in two institutions: libraries and fire services

In 2020, the coronavirus crisis drained the government budgets of countries all across Europe.

In the Netherlands, the local government is dependent on the central government for almost three quarters of its income. In 2019, 27 percent of the local government's income consisted of its own...

The Dutch government has ratified the agreements governing the way Statistics Netherlands (CBS) works with the public sector, academia and business.

Government revenues were nearly 5 billion euros higher in the first six months of 2018 than in the same period last year. This resulted in a year-on-year increase in the budget surplus, equivalent to...

Safe and reliable exchange of information, data, software and services between member states and Eurostat, and between member states themselves has a high priority

More and more government data is presented online as open data.

After the first three quarters of 2015, the public deficit amounted to 1.7 percent of GDP on an annual basis. Public debt was reduced to 66.3 percent of GDP.

This document is in Dutch only.

The public deficit over 2014 was 2.3 percent of GDP. Central government and the social funds were the largest contributors to the deficit. The municipal deficit has fallen sharply, but the provincial...

Statistics Netherlands launches its StatLine app today: a web application that shows all tables in the StatLine databank in a graphic format.

Over two-thirds of the income of Dutch municipalities in 2013 came from central government. Eleven percent of their income came from local taxes. Revenues from local taxes are much lower in the...

The Dutch government expects to receive 5.5 billion euros in revenues from motor vehicle tax in 2015. This tax, also known as road tax, consists of two parts. The largest part, nearly 4 billion...

This report describes unadjusted and adjusted wages differences between men and women in the public and private sector in 2008, 2010 and 2012. The publication is accompanied by a methodological...

By the end of 2013 the Dutch government provided for 46 billion euros worth of debt guarantees for loans. Nearly 39 billion euros of these debt guarantees > were made available by the central...

Tables with information about the new target groups of the Participation Act, to come into effect on 1 January 2015. Commissioned by: Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.

After 2000, the share of the corporate sector in the national income has increased, but the share of households has decreased as research conducted by Statistics Netherlands shows. This is partly the...