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In January 2021, the average daily output generated by the Dutch manufacturing industry was 0.6 percent up on January 2020.

The volume of exports of goods was more than 7 percent higher in January 2011 than twelve months previously. The volume of goods imports was 7 percent higher. Although the increase in international...

Statistics Netherlands announced today that investments have seriously fallen behind in the Netherlands in the past years. Another factor that plays a part in this respect is that Dutch companies...

Manufacturers’ stocks of finished products were more than 1 percent down in November 2012 from November 2011. In the preceding three months, stocks also declined compared to twelve months previously.

Figures released today that Dutch households saved over 30 percent more in 2003 than in 2002. Moreover, the amount they borrowed in consumer credit in 2003 was hardly higher than in 2002. The total...

According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), gross domestic product (GDP) declined by 0.8 percent in Q1 2021 relative to Q4 2020.

In June, the volume of goods exports was up by 14 percent on twelve months previously. This compares with the rise of more than 16 percent in May. However, in the first six months of 2009 the volume...

In October, 500 businesses and institutions (excluding one-man businesses) in the Netherlands were declared bankrupt. This is 130 fewer than in September this year, but still substantially more than...

Nearly 950 thousand persons received long-term care in 2012. Due to the ageing population, the number of long-term care recipients has increased dramatically over the period 2004-2012. Because the...

More than 146 thousand students passed their final exams in senior secondary vocational education (mbo) in the Netherlands in 2008/’09. This increase, 35 percent compared with ten years...

Dutch industrial entrepreneurs expect a 14 percent increase on their investment of 2005. This means a continuation of the recovery that started in 2005, when they invested almost 9 percent more than...

Manufacturers had reduced their stocks of finished products by more than 12 percent in March compared with March 2009.

Local authorities in the Netherlands expect to receive 12.5 billion euro in local taxes in 2013. This is 2.6 percent more than in 2012.

Over the past three months, more people in the Netherlands who were not actively looking on the labour market have begun seeking employment, but often without success. The number of people in the...

Manufacturers’ stocks of finished products were 2.5 percent up in March from March 2012. The increase is more substantial than in February, when manufacturers’ stocks were 1.3 percent up from one...

Although the media and the public are mostly interested in criminal court cases, the number of cases heard by civil court judges is much higher. Dutch civil courts handled 1 million cases in 2008,...

Spending on security governance in the Netherlands rose by more than 6 percent per year on average in the period 2002-2008. This was nearly one and a half times the growth rate of the gross domestic...

The number of unemployed people in the Netherlands fell for the fourth month in a row. More people have found a job in recent months. Unemployment fell by 13 thousand persons in August, to 8 percent...

In October 2015, the number of newly registered asylum seekers and family members joining asylum seekers increased to 11.7 thousand, more than in any other previous month. The total in September was...

In the first quarter of 2011, the youth unemployment rate in the Netherlands was 7.4 percent, i.e. lower than in all other member states of the European Union (EU). On average, more than one in every...

By the end of 2007, nearly half of companies with a staff of ten or more persons employed teleworkers. Teleworking is most common among large companies.

Dutch internet users aged between 16 to 75 tend to store their files more often through cloud computing than internet users elsewhere in Europe. However, they pay less often for this than people in...

Over the first six months of 2010, the number of bankruptcy declarations dropped by 6.7 percent relative to the same period in 2009. The number of private individuals and one-man businesses declared...

Young people without basic qualification are much more often heard by the police than those who have graduated from secondary vocational education level 2 (mbo-2) or higher. Unemployed school...

In May this year, 420 businesses and institutions (excluding one-man businesses) in the Netherlands were declared bankrupt, a decline by more than 70 relative to April. May is the second month in a...