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Retail turnover was 1.3 percent higher in February 2026, year on year.

Data protection legislation came into effect in 1988, with the Personal Data Protection Act. Legislation had already been adjusted prior to this to prevent census data being used for purposes other...

How did the Dutch economy perform in the fourth quarter of 2025? The video presents our initial calculations, explained by Peter Hein van Mulligen, chief economist at Statistics Netherlands (CBS)....

About the Consumer price index from 2026

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

In January 2023, altogether nearly 15 thousand deaths were recorded, exceeding the expected mortality by more than 1,250 (9 percent).

Retail turnover was 2.2 percent higher in January 2026, year on year.

Retail turnover was 3.9 percent higher in November 2025, year on year.

Retail turnover was 3.0 percent higher in December 2025, year on year.

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.

A revision incorporates the latest insights from the various (new) statistics and information sources used for the national accounts. The revision means that a new (level) estimate of the national...

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

Retail turnover was 3.1 percent higher in October 2025, year on year. Sales volume was up by 1.6 percent.

We present an index decomposition analysis (IDA) of changes in primary abiotic material use. In this framework there are four factors underlying changes in the resource consumption: substitution of...

How has the Dutch economy performed in the fourth quarter of 2023? And throughout 2023? What were the developments on the labour market? CBS chief economist Peter Hein van Mulligen explains the...

The economic climate in May 2023 is more negative than it was in April.

Twenty-eight percent of the employed labour force in Q1 2024 were classified as being in flexible employment.

Indigenous production, imports, exports, stock change and consumption Indigenous production, imports, exports, stock change and consumption

In the last week of July (week 30, 25 to 31 July 2022 inclusive), the estimated number of deaths stood at 3,200. This is slightly higher than in the previous week (3,144) and more than was expected...

A total of 5,600 people obtained a PhD at a Dutch university in the 2023/’24 academic year, with roughly equal numbers of women and men

Men who leave education during less favourable economic conditions find it harder to enter the labour force than men who leave education when the economy is performing better.

Performing arts; theatres and halls/stages, capacity, performances Region

In August, the mood among consumers remained unchanged compared to the previous month.

Final consumption expenditure by purpose Purposes conform COICOP 2018 classification

Realised figures on revenues, expenditures and debts of water boards. Water boards levies.