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Imports from India have more than doubled in four years
The Netherlands imported goods and services worth 17.4 billion euros from India in 2024, an increase of 9.5 billion euros compared with 2020.
Trade deficit with US due to mineral fuel imports
In the first three quarters of 2024, Dutch companies exported goods with a value of 28.2 billion euros to the United States
Value of agricultural exports up by over 8 percent in 2025
The Netherlands exported agricultural goods with a total value of 137.5 billion euros in 2025. That was an increase of 8.4 percent relative to 2024.
Exports of horses worth 457 million euros in 2024
The Netherlands exported live animals with a total value of 2.3 billion euros in 2024
Population is growing more slowly than last year
The population of the Netherlands grew by 77.5 thousand in the first three quarters of 2025
Half of electricity is produced from renewable sources
Electricity production from renewable sources such as sun, wind and biomass rose by 10 percent to 61 billion kWh in 2024.
More electricity from fossil sources
The Netherlands produced 64 billion kWh of electricity in the first half of 2025.
A quarter of businesses deploy ICT to use materials sustainably
In 2025, 23 percent of businesses in the Netherlands indicated that they deploy ICT solutions to make their use of materials more sustainable.
Economic growth is outpacing population growth
The Dutch economy was 21.2 percent larger in 2024 than it was in 2014, after adjusting for price changes
US ranks as third-largest export market for steel
In the first three quarters of 2024, the export value of steel to the US was higher than the previous year.
Increase in greenhouse gas emissions in 2025
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 0.8 percent higher in 2025 than in 2024.
More wages end up in other countries than ten years ago
A total of 3.3 billion euros in wages went from the Netherlands to other countries in the second quarter of 2024, a rise of 73 percent since the same period in 2014.
GDP per capita: Netherlands fourth in EU in 2024
In 2024, gross domestic product (GDP) per person in the Netherlands was 63 thousand euros
Nearly three-quarters of Dutch people took a summer holiday in 2024
A total of 72 percent of people in the Netherlands aged 15 and over went on holiday during the summer of 2024.
Freight transport by Eastern European lorries increased sharply
In 2023, international lorries carried a total weight of 103 million tonnes of goods to and from the Netherlands.
More greenhouse gas emissions in Q1 2025
Greenhouse gas emissions were 7 percent higher in Q1 2025 than in Q1 2024.
Population; households and population dynamics; from 1899
Population, households, population growth, births, mortality, marriages, marriage dissolutions, change of nationality and migration
Over 5 percent of Dutch population lived through the liberation of 1945
On 5 May 2025, the Netherlands celebrates 80 years of freedom since the country was occupied during World War II.
Setting up a new register for biocide sales in the Netherlands
This report presents an examination of available sales figures for biocides in countries neighbouring the Netherlands and of the conditions a national sales register would have to meet in the...
Labour productivity in the Netherlands down again in 2024
The Dutch economy grew by 1.0 percent in 2024.
No change in natural gas consumption in 2024
A total of 30 billion cubic metres of natural gas were consumed in the Netherlands in 2024 - around the same as in the previous year
Over 50 million holiday guests in 2024
A total of 51.7 million guests stayed at hotels, campsites and holiday parks in the Netherlands in 2024.
SDG 9.3 Knowledge and innovation
Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9.3 Industry, innovation and infrastructure: knowledge and innovation. The third part of SDG 9 focuses on public and private sector investment in...
Increasing use of AI by business
In 2024, 22.7 percent of companies with ten or more workers used one or more forms of AI technology.
Spending by Dutch travellers in summer 2024 was highest in Germany
Dutch holidaymakers, day trippers and business travellers spent around 8.7 billion euros on goods and services in other countries in the third quarter of 2024.