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Data ethics high on the agenda at CBS
On 6 March 2024, the fourth IBDS Café was held at Statistics Netherlands (CBS).
Well-being ‘here and now’: labour and leisure time
What is well-being ‘here and now’? Labour and leisure time concerns the quantity and quality of work and the balance between work and leisure time. Paid and unpaid work gives people control over...
Labour participation; key figures
Labour force, unemployment rate, labour participation Sex, age, level of education High Value Dataset - Statistiek
Today’s well-being increasingly comes at the expense of future generations
The Netherlands remains a prosperous country and a relatively cohesive society.
Employment; economic activity, sex, National Accounts
Employed persons, jobs, full-time equivalents (fte), hours worked Economic activity, sex, employees and self-employed persons
Population growth in first three quarters lower than in 2023
The population of the Netherlands grew by 85.3 thousand in the first three quarters of 2024.
The Netherlands now and 50 years ago
How has the Netherlands changed over the past fifty years? CBS’s Chief Sociologist Tanja Traag takes us through the most important changes that our population has undergone in recent decades. Content...
From which countries is it allowed to log in on the CBS Microdata-environment?
It is only allowed to work via RA from countries within the European Economic Area or from countries for which the European Commission has determined an adequate level of data protection.
Employed labour force; economic activity
Employed labour force Sex, characteristics, economic activities
The story
A brief explanation of why Statistics Netherlands produces the Monitor of Well-being and the SDGs, the meaning of well-being and how well-being is measured.
SDG 8.2 Labour and leisure time
Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8.2 Decent work and economic growth: Labour and leisure time. The second part of SDG 8 relates to the aim of giving everyone who wants to work the...
Population Outlook 2050: more residents born outside the Netherlands
The number of people living in the Netherlands who were born elsewhere is very likely to increase between now and 2050.
Unemployment virtually unchanged in June
In June 2024, 370 thousand people aged 15 to 74 years were unemployed.
Monthly labour participation and unemployment
Employed, unemployed and not included in labour force according to international definition by sex and age
Two-thirds of businesses are struggling with staff shortages
Two-thirds of entrepreneurs are dealing with shortage of staff.
Smoking and alcohol consumption down since 2014, obesity unchanged
In 2024, 18 percent of adults smoked, 6 percent consumed alcohol excessively, and 50 percent were overweight.
Health expenditure; revenues of health care financing schemes, 1998-2022
Health and care expenditure; revenues of healthcare financing schemes; Healthcare financing schemes, High Value Dataset – Statistiek
Distribution of well-being: accumulation
Recent data on distribution of well-being by sex, age, education level and origin/country of birth. Well-being is not distributed equally across all groups in the population. Favourable or...
Well-being of young adults trailing behind other age groups
People under the age of 35 experience lower levels of well-being than older people in the Netherlands.
Dutch control companies; outside and within the EU zone; Industry
Turnover, employees and the number of companies outside the EU zone over which a Dutch institutional unit has control.
Fewer workers in flexible employment and more on permanent contracts
Twenty-eight percent of the employed labour force in Q1 2024 were classified as being in flexible employment.
Decline in trade union membership continues
In 2023, 15 percent of workers aged between 15 and 75 were members of a trade union.
Fewer museum visits in 2024 than before pandemic
Almost 32 million museum visits were made in the Netherlands in 2024, around the same number as in 2023
SDG 4 Quality education
Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 Quality education. SDG 4 stresses the importance of high quality and accessible education for all age groups and in all stages of life: from...
Exports up by almost 3 percent in September
In September 2025, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 2.6 percent year on year.