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Slightly over half of Dutch young people between the ages of 15 and 24 occasionally do volunteer work.

The teaching workforce in primary education is currently ageing. In the 2003/’04 school year, 11 percent of primary teachers were 55 years of age or over, as against 21 percent in 2017/’18.

Between August and October 2018, the number of people aged 15 to 74 in paid employment grew by an average of 20 thousand per month. Total employment stood at more than 8.8 million in October....

Consumer prices rose by 1.7 percent on average in 2018 relative to the previous year.

Flows of goods to and from North Limburg.

Overview of throughput in Dutch seaports in 2016.

According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the CPI inflation rates in November and December 2015 were 0.7 percent higher than in the same months in 2014. The rate over the entire year 2015 averaged...

Between July and September 2018, the number of people aged 15 to 74 in paid employment grew by an average of 22 thousand per month. Total employment stood at more than 8.8 million in September....

In the period May through July 2019, the number of people aged 15 to 74 in paid employment grew by 10 thousand per month on average. There were 9.0 million people in work in July.

These are among the conclusions in the Poverty Survey 2012 (Armoedesignalement 2012) which is published today. In the report, researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP and...

Nearly nine in ten adults say they are happy. This share has been stable for years.

The consumer price index rose by 1.4 percent on average in 2017 on the previous year.

At the beginning of Q3, more and more enterprises are suffering from a shortage of staff.

Price developments (inflation) in the Netherlands according to the CPI

In September 2020 the Dutch retail sector recorded 7.6 percent year-on-year turnover growth.

Prices of Dutch-manufactured products were on average 5.3 percent down in September 2020 year-on-year.

In 2017, 23% fewer crime victims than in 2012. Police recorded crime per inhabitant dropped by 30%.

People aged 45 and over with type 2 diabetes are more likely to suffer from other long-term disorders.

The Netherlands earned almost 13 bn euros from exports of machinery and machine parts in 2015.

In 2017, 29 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds were addicted to social media in their own view.

Life expectancy without physical limitations and in good self-perceived health is projected to rise until 2040.

The majority of Dutch adults are satisfied with their lives. Nearly six in ten adults are also optimistic about the current state of affairs in the Netherlands.

Increasingly fewer babies are born on a Sunday, and death rates are slightly lower on weekend days as well.

During the first 7 months of 2017, exports to Russia amounted to nearly 3.2 billion euros.

Subsidiaries with a US parent company account for some 12 percent of total private sector turnover in the Netherlands.