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In 2018, renewable energy sources accounted for 7.4 percent of total Dutch energy consumption, up from 6.6 percent one year previously. More than half of this increase was due to higher biomass...

In 2018, 57 percent of the workforce in the Caribbean Netherlands (aged 15 to 74 years) were born in the former Dutch Antilles and Aruba.

The largest gas field in Europe was discovered near Slochteren (Groningen) on 29 May 1959, this gave natural gas a vital role in the Dutch energy supply.

A large majority of young people (ages 12 to 24 yrs) use the internet (almost) every day. Girls are online for social networking more often than boys.

Around 13.5 million inhabitants of the Netherlands are eligible to vote in the upcoming European Parliament elections. Of this group, 3.6 percent do not hold the Dutch nationality but do have EU...

The volume of investments in tangible fixed assets was 3.8 percent up in March 2019 relative to the same month last year.

Consumer confidence has not changed in May.

Dutch consumers spent 1.1 percent more in March 2019 than in March 2018.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 2.6 percent higher in November than in the same month last year.

In 2018, a total of 4,628 people in the Netherlands died due to an accidental fall, nearly 600 more than in the previous year. This comes down to 13 fatal falls per day on average.

Confidence among Dutch entrepreneurs is increasing slightly in Q2 2019, after two quarters of decline. However, staff shortages are still affecting business operations at some enterprises.

the ‘Monitor of well-being’ CBS gives a wide ranging description of the increasing welfare in the Netherlands

The broad well-being of higher educated is higher than of lower educated.

IIn Q1 2019, CO2 emissions in the Netherlands were down by 0.8 percent year-on-year.

The total volume of goods exports grew by nearly 2 percent in March year-on-year.

There were 3 more bankruptcies in April 2019 than in the previous month.

The recent US import tariffs on competing goods exported by EU countries are affecting France most severely. Goods include aircraft and wines, at an export value of 2.7 bn euros in 2018.

On 1 January 2019, there were nearly 45 thousand fully electric vehicles (FEVs) in the Netherlands, twice the number recorded one year previously.

The size of the organic farming sector increased again in 2018.

Of the Dutch population who have shopped online over the course of 2019, half have reported complaints. In 2015, 40 percent said they experienced problems related to online purchases.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) follows the Europeasn definition of an enterprise.

Prices of Dutch-manufactured products were 2.5 percent up in March 2019 year-on-year.

In Q1 2019, the Netherlands received 5,405 asylum seekers and 840 following family members. Both numbers were lower than in the preceding quarter.

Of the asylum seekers who obtained a residence permit in 2014 and were subject to the integration requirement, 58 percent had passed the civic integration exam on reference date 1 October 2018. Two...

In 2018, the labour participation rate on the three islands of the Caribbean Netherlands was higher than two years previously.