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Bat populations thriving
Bat populations are thriving in the Netherlands. The 8 species that are being monitored all increase in numbers.
Retail turnover over 3 percent up in May
The Dutch retail sector achieved over 3 percent turnover growth in May 2019.
Dutch government surplus 14 billion euros in 2019
In 2019 the public surplus amounted to 1.7 percent of GDP. Both revenues and expenditure rose sharply. Public debt at the end of 2019 amounted to 48.6 percent of GDP.
Retail turnover almost 4 percent up in January
Dutch retail sector achieved 3.7 percent year-on-year turnover growth in January 2020. The volume of sales increased by 2.2 percent.
Job losses come to a halt
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.
Investments by enterprises in industry; expectations and motives
Investments, expectations, motives, enterprises, industry Business Sector SBI 2008
Retail turnover over 2 percent up in April
The Dutch retail sector achieved 2.3 percent turnover growth in April 2019.
Retail turnover over 4 percent up in March
The Dutch retail sector achieved 4.4 percent turnover growth in March 2019.
Job growth 2 percent in second quarter of 2008
In the second quarter of 2008, the number of jobs of employees increased by 154 thousand (2.0 percent) relative to the same quarter last year.
The international road to new forms of data collection
CBS hosted two UNECE workshops in October, on data collection and statistics communication.
More and more families with two working parents
Last year, there were 1.6 million couples with at least one underage child in the Netherlands. In 77 percent of these families both parents worked.
Private sector invests 1.7 billion euro in vocational education
In 2006, the public sector spent 1.7 billion euro (5 percent of total spending on education and 0.3 percent of the GDP) on apprenticeship training programmes and other combinations of education and...
Share corporate sector in national income up, share households down
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...
Fewer jobs lost
In the fourth quarter of last year, 147 thousand jobs of employees were lost compared to the fourth quarter of 2008, a reduction by 1.8 percent.
The IM: measuring globalisation
For ten years already, it has described the consequences and characteristics of globalisation as they apply to the Netherlands in an accessible manner
Caribbean Netherlands workforce: 57% are Antillean
In 2018, 57 percent of the workforce in the Caribbean Netherlands (aged 15 to 74 years) were born in the former Dutch Antilles and Aruba.
More children placed under guardianship
The number of children placed under guardianship has increased considerably in recent years. In 2007, 10.6 thousand children were placed under guardianship.