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Much smaller rise in care spending
Health care and welfare cost nearly 60 billion euro in 2004. This is 4.3 percent more than 2003. Spending on care still rose by as much 10 percent annually in the period 2001-2003. The decrease in...
Care spending up by 5.1 percent
In 2007, total spending on care, i.e. health care plus welfare services, amounted to 74 billion euro, a 5.1 percent increase relative to 2006.
Producer confidence hardly changes
Confidence among Dutch manufacturers stood at 8.9 in December.
Manufacturers less confident in May
Confidence among Dutch manufacturers stood at 6.1 in May, down from 8.3 in April.
Producer confidence picks up
The Dutch producer confidence indicator stood at 3.4 in September, up from 1.2 in August.
Business confidence remains high
Business confidence in Q3 2016
Consumption; 1995-September 2005
Changes, indices, shares, value of consumption of households and actual individual consumption of households by type of goods and services;
Trade with Iran picked up before embargo ended
The value of Dutch exports of goods to Iran exceeded 450 million euros in 2015, an increase by 21 percent within twelve months. Exporters were faced with trade restrictions in recent years. As a...
Exports down
The volume of exports of goods was 2.8 percent down in May 2014 from May 2013. A decline of this magnitude has not occurred in the past four and a half years. In the months prior to the decline in...
Local tax revenues up 7 percent
Local authority budgets, revenues from taxes collected by Dutch municipal and provincial authorities and water boards will rise by 7.1 percent in 2004. Total taxes paid by private households and...
Unemployment slightly down
In October 2020, there were 406 thousand unemployed, equivalent to 4.3 percent of the labour force.
Share of renewable energy up to 7.4 percent
In 2018, renewable energy sources accounted for 7.4 percent of total Dutch energy consumption, up from 6.6 percent one year previously. More than half of this increase was due to higher biomass...
More and more employees want to work to the age of 65
The share of employees in the Netherlands who say they want to work until they reach the age of 65 years has doubled in the space of four years: from 21 percent in 2005 to 42 percent in 2009
consumer spending marginally up, consumer confidence hardly changes
According to figures released by Statistics Netherlands today, household spending on goods and services was 0.5 percent up in December 2014 from December 2013.
Further reduction traffic deaths
Last year, 720 people were killed on Dutch roads, a reduction by 30 (4 percent) relative to 2008. The reduction is mainly recorded among 30 to 60-year-olds and motorists.
Economic growth 2.4 percent in second quarter 2007
Dutch economy improved 2.4 percent in the second quarter of 2007 relative to one year previously.
Dutch economic growth sliding
Tthe Dutch economy grew by 1.1 percent in the third quarter of 2011 compared with same quarter last year.
Growth tourism sector primarily due to foreign tourists
The value of tourism expenditure in the Dutch economy rose by 6.9 percent in 2017 to a total of 82.1 billion euros.
Half of private sector may not survive COVID-19 crisis
Many non-financial companies in the Netherlands fear for their survival in case of a protracted coronavirus crisis. Nearly half of all entrepreneurs in the non-financial private sector expect their...
Tourism sector continues to grow
The tourism sector is becoming increasingly important to the Dutch economy.
Economic situation improves
The economic situation improved in August.