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Business confidence for the third quarter of 2025 rose to -3.8.

In 2021-2023, over 5 percent of larger or medium-sized firms moved some of their operations abroad

Nearly 22 percent of businesses have made changes to their business strategy, or plan to make changes, in response to tensions, disruptions or policy changes in overseas markets

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Business confidence has fallen for the second consecutive quarter, reaching -7.5 in the second quarter of 2025

Turnover, employees and the number of companies outside the EU zone over which a Dutch institutional unit has control.

Two-thirds of entrepreneurs are dealing with shortage of staff.

Employers births; Employers deaths; Employer population Sector_branches_SIC_2008; legal forms

Enterprise births; enterprise deaths; legal form Persons employed; NCEA 2008

Employer births; Employer deaths; Persons employed; SIC 2008;

There has been a slight fall in business confidence for the first time in over a year.

There were nearly 300 thousand family-owned businesses in the Netherlands at the beginning of 2022.

For the first time in 2023, business drivers of passenger cars drove more kilometres in electrically powered vehicles than they did in diesel-powered vehicles (including diesel hybrids)

In 2024, 22.7 percent of companies with ten or more workers used one or more forms of AI technology.

Business owners anticipate hiring more staff and investing more in 2025, but these expectations are less positive than they were for 2024.

More businesses anticipate an increase in investment in innovation and R&D in 2025 than a decrease.

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

In 2023, the average carbon tax rate in the Netherlands was 88 euros per tonne of CO2 emitted.

BCT Dashboard is a tool to assist in the analysis of the state and the course of the Dutch economy.

In the second quarter, entrepreneurs saw profitability improve on balance for the first time in over two years.

Jobs lost or created due to sourcing business functions abroad by sector of industry (SIC 2008), business function, or job skill level

This study proposes a GreenTransition-module for business tendency surveys. It describes managers’ assessments, expectations, plans and constraints about the green transition of their enterprise.

Business owners expect to invest more in 2026 than they are investing this year