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Prices of Dutch-manufactured products were 0.6 percent up in December 2018 year-on-year.

In Q3 2018, Dutch consumers bought around 406 million euros (excl. VAT) worth of products from foreign EU webshops. This is 14 pecent up on the same quarter in 2017.

Brussels sprouts exports have risen most significantly among the winter vegetables.

In Q4 2018, consumer prices on Saba were back at the level of one year previously. This brought an end to the price increases recorded after Hurricane Irma in Q4 2017.

Over the entire year 2018, a total of 3,144 bankruptcies were pronounced. This represents a year-on-year decrease of 4.5 percent.

The average daily output generated by the Dutch manufacturing industry was 2.1 percent up in November compared to the same month one year previously.

Six percent of the Dutch population aged 12 years and over - around 886 thousand people - indicated in 2018 they had never used the Internet, as against 10 percent in 2012.

Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers has increased again in December 2018.

Government revenues in the first three quarters of 2018 exceeded expenditure by almost 12 billion euros.

In 2017/’18, more girls than boys in the third year of secondary education were studying at a higher level than recommended by their primary school. This applied to all students who did not fall...

The Dutch retail sector achieved 3.3 percent turnover growth in October year-on-year, while the volume of sales increased by 2.6 percent.

In 2017, altogether 54 thousand full-time jobs in the Netherlands were associated with renewable energy and energy efficiency. This number was up from 35 thousand in 2008.

The average daily output generated by the Dutch manufacturing industry was 34 percent up in October compared to the same month last year.

At the end of 2017, nearly 7 procent of all minor children were living in families on income support, 228 thousand minors. This is nearly 3 thousand less than in 2016. In most of these families, a...

Prices of Dutch-manufactured products were over 5 percent up in October 2018 year-on-year.

In the first eight months of 2018, exports of industrial products to China amounted to nearly 4.8 billion euros, representing a year-on-year decrease of 860 million euros.

Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers has increased in November 2018.

Almost 3/4 of couples with a Turkish, Moroccan or native Dutch background are still together after 12 years.

The mood among Dutch consumers is less positive in November than in October. The consumer confidence indicator drops 2 points and stands at 13.

In 2016, the Dutch environmental sector represented a value added of 15.8 billion euros, contributing 2.2 percent to gross domestic product (GDP) that year. The share of the environmental sector in...

Nearly 53 percent of refugee households have a low income, over six times the average in the Netherlands (8.2 percent). Among households with a Syrian or Eritrean main breadwinner, this share is even...

Of the three Caribbean islands, Saba had the lowest income inequality in 2016.

In the first three quarters of 2018, the population of the Netherlands grew by 81 thousand. Population growth is similar to the same period one year previously. Foreign migration is the largest...

Out of the 7.7 million employee jobs in the Netherlands as of December 2016, around 1 percent were filled by employees who were residents of either Belgium or Germany.

In 2018, one-quarter of the 754 ha of pumpkin cultivation area is in Flevoland province. The total pumpkin cultvation area has declined in most provinces. Pumpkin trade was slightly higher...