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More foreign securities for pension funds and insurance companies in 2004
Total assets of Dutch pension funds and insurance companies amounted to 865 billion euro at the end of 2004. This is 82 billion more than in 2003. Holdings of foreign securities in particular rose....
Over 1 billion euros spent in foreign EU webshops
In 2016, Dutch consumers spent over 1 billion euros on products sold by foreign EU webshops.
Influx of unaccompanied foreign minors to the Netherlands slows down
In 2011, 500 unaccompanied foreign minors arrived in the Netherlands, i.e. 200 down from 2010. More than half were Afghan nationals.
Unemployment of non-western foreigners hardly rose in 2005
Unemployment among non-western foreigners in the Netherlands hardly rose in 2005. For native Dutch people, too, unemployment remained at about the same level.
Half of the Dutch international trade in the hands of foreign companies
In 2008 about half of the Dutch import value of goods and nearly 45 percent of the export value could be attributed to a foreign-owned company.
Insurance companies and pension funds invest more in foreign bonds
Dutch pension funds and insurance companies increased their foreign bond holdings by 13 billion euro to 238 billion euro in the third quarter of 2004. The balance sheet total of insurance companies...
Tourism sector mainly grows through foreign tourists
The contribution of the tourism sector to Dutch GDP rose from 3.2 percent in 2010 to 3.6 percent in 2013 according to the latest figures released by Statistics Netherlands today. The tourism sector...
Expenditure on foreign policy dramatically down
Last year, government expenditure on foreign policy amounted to 16 billion euro, a decrease by more than 9 percent relative to 2008. The decrease is mainly due to one-off, lower contributions to the...
Foreign holidays account for higher CO2 emissions
In 2008, Dutch holiday travellers emitted 15.6 billion kilograms of CO2 into the atmosphere, 8 percent of total Dutch CO2 emissions and an increase by more than 16 percent in comparison to 2002....
People with a foreign background
Statistics Netherlands dossier on people with a foreign background contains statistics and information on ethnic minorities and immigrants in the Netherlands.
1 in 10 crime suspects is a foreigner without fixed abode
In 2013 nearly one in five registered crime suspects was a foreigner. Over half of this group, one in ten crime suspects, had no fixed abode within the Netherlands. They were tourists, seasonal...
Exports up by 8.5 percent in October
In October 2022, the total volume of goods exports was up by 8.5 percent year on year.
More electricity generated to meet higher foreign demand
After a 3-year period of decline, the production of electrical energy grew by 2 percent last year to 103 billion kWh. The increase is predominantly due to a higher foreign demand.
Persons with dispensed medicines; background; 2006-2020
Persons to whom medicines were dispensed by background, medicine group, age, sex in absolute figures and as percentage of total population
Forecast: population growth picks up again
The population of the Netherlands will continue to grow over the next five decades, to 20.6 million inhabitants in 2070.
Foreign trade up again
International goods trade in the Netherlands was higher in November 2004 than twelve months previously. It was the ninth month in a row that both exports and imports were significantly higher than in...
Foreign trade growing
The value of goods imported to and exported from the Netherlands was higher in April 2004 than in April 2003. Imports were 5 percent higher at 17.7 billion euro, exports amounted to 19.9 billion...
Foreign trade up 6 percent in June
The value of imports to and exports from the Netherlands was 6 percent higher in June than in the same month last year. Imports amounted to 20.7 billion euro, exports to 23.8 billion euro.