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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.
Children adopted from China perform better in secondary education
Statistics Netherlands announced today that children adopted from China perform better at school than non-adopted children; 15-year-old children with a Chinese background more often attend...
Charlotte Rietbergen wins Statistics Netherlands Award 2009
Charlotte Rietbergen, who has completed the research master’s programme Methodology and statistics for the behavioural and social sciences at Utrecht University, has received the Statistics...
Care spending up by 4.4 percent
Spending on health care and welfare in the Netherlands amounted to 65.7 billion euro in 2006. This is 4.4 percent more than in 2005.
The Rationale of spatial economic top sector policy
Cities and clusters are important from an economical point of view. According to various national and international studies, agglomeration economies mean that businesses in urban areas and clusters...
Blueberry sales in supermarkets continue to grow
Blueberries have soared in popularity over the past few years.
€2 bn trade surplus in transport services with the UK
In Q1-Q3 2019 the Netherlands imported services from the UK to a value of 17.1 billion euros, while service exports to the UK amounted to 19.3 billion euros. The trade surplus with the UK stood at...
Largest turnover growth in 11 years for retail sector
Dutch retail sector achieved 5.5 percent turnover growth in November year-on-year.
Unemployment continues to fall
Unemployment continues to fall
Most EU targets not yet achieved by the Netherlands
percentage of people who have successfully completed tertiary-level education
Consumer price index (CPI) 2006=100
The monthly publication of changes in prices of consumer goods and services. The price changes are shown as an index. Inflation is calculated as the percentage of change of the consumer price index...
Air pollution, emissions by mobile sources
To obtain data on the national atmospheric emissions by mobile sources.
Price level measurement Caribbean Netherlands 2015 - brief survey description
The one-off publication on the relative price levels of consumptive expenditure in Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba (the Caribbean Netherlands). It concerns the price levels of a representative basket...
Food for thought: dietary and health trends in the Netherlands
These are just some findings in the book Food for thought: dietary and health trends in the Netherlands, published today.
Voters prefer computer to red pencil
Dutch voters trust voting machines. They think they are the most reliable way to vote.
Slowdown population growth in 2012
Nearly 16.8 million people were living in the Netherlands on 1 January 2013, an increase by 48 thousand relative to one year previously. On balance, 13 thousand people from abroad settled in the...
Fewer over-65s receive long-term care services
Nearly 950 thousand persons received long-term care in 2012. Due to the ageing population, the number of long-term care recipients has increased dramatically over the period 2004-2012. Because the...
Slight increase in job numbers
In the third quarter of 2005 the number of jobs was slightly higher than in the second quarter. The seasonally corrected figures show an increase of 7 thousand jobs of employees.
Obesity leads to more sickness absence
A publication just released by Statistics Netherlands on health and care in 2007 comprises seven articles on a range of recent developments in the area of health and care.
Purchasing power up after four years of decline
After four years of decline, the purchasing power of the Dutch population improved by 1.5 percent in 2014. All population groups saw their spending power rise in a period of slow economic recovery....
International trade and transit trade; product group 2007-2017
International trade, transport, transit trade Continents, NSTR chapters, flow types, value and weight
Population, households and population dynamics; from 1899
Population, households, population growth, births, mortality, marriages, marriage dissolutions, change of nationality and migration
Start of public debate on SDGs
In September 2015, 193 government leaders reached an agreement on the 2030 sustainable development agenda