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Last year, the labour costs per year of employment increased by 1.4 percent, the smallest increase since 1989. The average annual increase over the past decade was 3.3 percent.

There were about the same number of jobs in the second quarter of 2005 as in the first. The seasonally adjusted figure shows an increase of 4 thousand jobs of employees.

According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 2.1 percent in Q3 2021 relative to Q2 2021. In the first estimate growth amounted...

The interactive publication Trends in the Netherlands 2018 includes facts and figures relevant to the Netherlands as well as a description of trends in economy, labour and income, and society.

Last year, absenteeism in the public and the private sector due to illness or injury rose to 4.4 percent.

From 2016 up to and including 2018, the Netherlands had 383 thousand international knowledge workers on average.

The average age in the employed labour force has risen further to 41.4 years in 2012, i.e. more than five years higher than in 1990. Employees are on average younger than self-employed, but they age...

Dutch economic growth was minus 0.7 percent in 2003. The last time the gross domestic product decreased in the space of one year was in 1982. GDP was 0.4 percent down in the fourth quarter of 2003 on...

In the first quarter of 2009 there were 23 thousand more jobs of employees than in the same quarter of 2008. This brought the number of jobs to 7.9 million.

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...

In the period January-August 2021, fresh food exports to the UK declined in value by 193 million euros year-on-year.

The volume of investments in tangible fixed assets was 8 percent up in December 2019 relative to the same month last year.

Over the period 1997-2009, the share of student loans in the system student loans and grants has steadily grown. The total amount of public spending on student loans and grants has also increased...

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) currently projects life expectancy at age 65 to be 20.93 years in 2027.

Week 26 (25-29 June 2007)

Economy improves further

In 2013, more than 25 per cent of the population in the Caribbean Netherlands felt sometimes unsafe. Half of the population is of the opinion that there is no crime and 40 per cent that there is...

Last year, more than six in every ten over-15s indicated to have confidence in the military, i.e. slightly more than in 2012. People have more confidence in police and judiciary, but less confidence...

Just over 10 percent of the Dutch population reported that they had felt sombre or depressed in 2012, and nearly 6 percent were prescribed anti-depressants in 2011. Feelings of depression are much...

According to the flash estimate, the Dutch economy grew by 3.2 percent in the first quarter of this year relative to the same quarter in 2010. This growth figure is the highest recorded in the last...

In Q2 2020, the youth labour participation rate fell from 65.9 to 60.3 percent, returning to the level of Q1 2016.