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The mood among Dutch consumers is somewhat more positive in January 2017. It is at the highest level in 9.5 years.

Economic description of the Dutch North Sea and coast.

In 2017, Dutch road hauliers carried 666 million tonnes of cargo, an increase of 1.5 percent over 2016.

In 2019, nitrogen excretion in animal manure decreased by 2.6 percent on the previous year, to 490 million kg. This is below the nitrogen oxides emission ceiling that has been imposed on Dutch...

Consumer confidence deteriorated in August

In February 2021 the Dutch retail sector recorded 2.8 percent year-on-year turnover decline.

In 2016, the Netherlands exported 85 bn euros in agricultural goods.

In Q2 2020, Dutch consumers spent a record 696 million euros in foreign EU webshops.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 10.3 percent higher in July than in the same month last year.

The polluter-pay principle does not always apply.

In 2015, the Dutch private sector generated more than 0.5 billion euros in revenues through European exports of motor vehicles and vehicle components to the United States.

The police registered nearly 10 thousand sexual offences last year, up from 8.8 thousand in the previous year. In particular, more cases of sexual assault and rape were registered

In the period July through September, the number of people aged 15 to 74 years in employment grew by 22 thousand per month on average, to 9.1 million in September.

In August 2021, the average daily output generated by the Dutch manufacturing industry was 9.8 percent up year-on-year.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the Dutch central bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) started publishing univocal figures on the Netherlands’ relations with the rest of the world

Cancer has been the main cause of death among men for years, since 2016 also among women

In Q3 2020, Dutch consumers spent a total of 605 million euros on products from foreign EU webshops.

Economic Integration Agreements (EIAs) can be powerful instruments for countries to stimulate the international activity of their firms.

The area of land in use for housing, industry and infrastructure increased by 200 square kilometres from 2013 to 2020. The area of land in use for agriculture shrank by 244 sq km. The total area of...

In the Netherlands, the local government is dependent on the central government for almost three quarters of its income. In 2019, 27 percent of the local government's income consisted of its own...

Consumers spent 6.4 percent more in June 2021 than in June 2020.

(big) data and smart software as a means to create solutions to various social problems

In January 2021, the total volume of goods exports was up by 2.7 percent year on year.

The volume of investments in tangible fixed assets rose by 0.6 percent year-on-year in September 2021. Investments in machinery and dwellings were higher in particular.

Despite the coronavirus crisis, Dutch agricultural exports grew by an estimated 1 percent in 2020 relative to the previous year.