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In the 2022/’23 academic year, almost 123 thousand international students attended higher vocational education (HBO) or a university (WO) in the Netherlands.

In 2022, a total of 304 thousand passenger cars were exported, nearly 2 percent fewer than in the previous year. The Netherlands imported 249 thousand cars, representing a decline of more than 15...

In June of this year, Director General Ms Angelique Berg of Statistics Netherlands (CBS) was appointed vice-chair of the Bureau of the OECD Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy, also known...

Dutch manufacturers were less negative in September than they were in August.

The number of corporate bankruptcies, adjusted for court session days, has increased.

Electricity production from renewable sources increased to 32.3 billion kWh in the first half of 2024.

The inflation rate stood at 3.5 percent in September.

The economic climate in June 2023 is more negative than it was in May.

In July 2024, existing owner-occupied dwellings were 10.6 percent more expensive, on average, than one year previously.

An estimated 400 thousand households were affected by energy poverty in 2023, 70 thousand more than in 2022.

For the second consecutive month, consumers are marginally more negative than they were in the previous month.

Statistics Netherlands (known in Dutch as ‘Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek’ or CBS) is a name that the majority of Dutch people are familiar with.

Manufacturers in the industrial sector expect to invest around 30 percent more in tangible fixed assets (such as buildings, machinery, transportation equipment or computers) in 2024 than they did in...

A total of 9.8 million people were in paid employment in August 2024.

The inflation rate stood at 3.6 percent in August.

Tourists who visited the Netherlands in 2023 spent nearly 105 billion euros.

Businesses with a growth or decline in turnover Business activity and business size

Consumer goods and services on Bonaire were 2.5 percent more expensive in Q2 2024 than one year previously.

Adjusted for the number of court session days, there were 41 fewer bankruptcies in October 2024 than in September.

There were 125 victims of murder or manslaughter in the Netherlands in 2023: 84 men and 41 women.

On 1 January 2024, 10.6 million people aged 18 years or older had registered their preference regarding organ donation in the national Donor Register.

In 2022, energy production from solar panels rose by 46 percent on the previous year. This was mainly due to the use of new solar panels.

Labour force, unemployment, labour participation Position in household, sex, age

In 2023, 15 percent of workers aged between 15 and 75 were members of a trade union.

The population of the Netherlands grew by 54.8 thousand in the first half of 2023. In the first half of 2022, the increase still amounted to 119.2 thousand