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Manufacturing output slightly down in July
The average daily output generated by the Dutch manufacturing industry was 0.2 percent down in July 2019 compared to the same month one year previously.
Producer confidence unchanged
Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers has improved.
Spending up in European webshops
Online purchases by Dutch consumers in foreign EU webshops, big data research
Dutch are regular online shoppers
Last year, 7.5 million Dutch people in the age category 16–74 bought one or more articles online. Together with Denmark and the United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands tops the EU list.
Few strike days in 2009
Last year, 25 strikes were organized in the Netherlands. The number of lost working days involved was the lowest since 1985.
Environmental investment
In 2015 the share of Dutch investment in environmental protection in total investment
Dutch inflation nearly lowest in EU
The Dutch inflation rate in March 20100 was one of the lowest in the EU.
Imports from China: from T-shirts to tablet PCs
China is the main supplier of high-tech products for the Netherlands. The import of high-tech products such as computers and mobile phones is gaining ground to the detriment of low-tech products,...
Number of passengers travelling through Dutch airports breaks 60 million barrier
For the first time in history, the number of passengers travelling through Dutch airports broke the 60 million barrier last year; 90 percent of them travelled through Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The...
In the space of 40 years, VAT has become the most important tax
Value added tax was introduced in the Netherlands in 1969. In that year it generated just over 2.5 billion euro in revenue; nearly 40 years later VAT revenue amounted to nearly 43 billion euro.
Substantial growth mobile Internet usage
In the spring of 2011, there were over six million mobile Internet users in the age category 12–75 in the Netherlands, exactly half of all 12 to 75-year-olds who indicated they used the Internet in...
Shift towards more productive firms mainly in ICT-intensive sectors
ICT has had a positive effect on the Dutch economy between 2000 and December 2010. Firms became more productive in sectors where ICT is used intensively.
Collectively agreed wages rise more in first quarter of 2008 than in whole of 2007
Collectively negotiated wage rates were 2.7 percent higher in the first quarter of 2008 than twelve months previously.
Consumer prices; European harmonised price index 2005=100 (HICP), 2002-2015
European harmonised consumer price indices. Index figures Consumer goods. (base year 2005 = 100)
Producer Prices; SBI 2008, sales, index 2005 = 100, 1981-2012
Price index number (excluding excise), by sales (domestic and foreign) According to activity nomenclature SBI2008