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Registered crime down in 2012
Dutch police recorded 5 percent fewer criminal offences in 2012 than in 2011. Registered crime in the Netherlands has been showing a downward trend for a number of years now. However, the number of...
Revised version: 431 Dutch municipalities in 2010
On 1 January 2010, the Netherlands comprised 431 municipalities, i.e. 10 fewer than a year ago. The decline is mainly due to 5 municipal redivisions including 15 municipalities in the provinces of...
Large proportion of labour migrants leave the Netherlands within four years
About 40 percent of labour migrants, who have come to the Netherlands since 1999, leave the country within four years. The lowest and top incomes are more prone to leave the Netherlands than persons...
Unemployment up across all provinces in 2009
Unemployment had risen in all Dutch provinces last year relative to 2008. The most substantial increase was recorded in the province of North Brabant.
Nearly 6 percent of Dutch dwellings uninhabited
On 1 January 2008 5.7 percent of the just over 7 million dwellings in the Netherlands were not officially inhabited. This does not mean that they are vacant, but that nobody is officially registered...
Number of income support benefits hardly up
301 thousand people aged under 65 years were claiming income support at the end of the third quarter of 2010.
Netherlands occupies prominent position in export of flowers and plants
Flowers and plants are not the most important export products, but the level of specialisation with respect to these products is high in the Netherlands.
House rents up 1.6 percent
The amount of rent Dutch tenants pay for their homes was 1.6 percent higher on 1 July 2010 than one year previously. This is the equivalent of an average increase of 7 euro per month. It is the...
Population growth high in regions attractive for Dutch as well as foreigners
In the period 2005–2010, the Dutch population grew by 269 thousand, i.e. 1.6 percent.
Domestic mineral consumption
In the Netherlands, (non-metallic) minerals are predominantly used in the construction sector.
Netherlands increasingly tied in with global trade
The Dutch economy has become more and more interwoven with global trade in the last thirty years. This means that it has become more vulnerable to declining international demand.
Number of welfare benefits continues to fall
The number of welfare benefits paid to people aged under 65 in the second quarter of 2006 was down by nearly 5 thousand.
Number of long-term income support benefits down
In 2007, the number of income support benefits declined markedly for the third year running. At the end of December, 275 thousand benefits were received, 27 thousand fewer than one year previously.
2.5 percent of Dutch housing stock vacant for extended period of time
More than 400 thousand houses in the Netherlands are unoccupied; 190 thousand (2.5 percent of the dwelling stock) remain occupied for more than eighteen months.
Employment opportunities social security recipients vary considerably by municipality
Nearly 30 thousand persons living on social security benefits by the end of 2009 managed to find jobs in 2010, i.e. 9 percent of social security recipients. In the category municipalities with 100...
Dutch think level of decay in their own neighbourhood is acceptable
In recent years, fewer people were annoyed by graffiti on walls and buildings, vandalised bus and tram shelters and dog droppings in their neighbourhood. The decline was observed in urban as well as...