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Statistics Netherlands’ (CBS) has a highly diverse workforce that includes people of different ages, nationalities, cultural backgrounds and sexual orientation from various educational backgrounds...

In 2024, the population counter passed 18 million people for the first time.

frequently asked questions about Int. Trade in Goods

Mixed-mode adaptive survey designs have become a standard in many survey settings. Also the combination of mixing modes and adapting effort has been elaborated and applied. However, the focus has...

The Dutch area of the North Sea is our country’s largest nature reserve, but it is also used intensively by maritime traffic and for wind farms, for example.

When does Statistics Netherlands publish new national accounts figures?

This paper shows how Statistics Netherlands managed the unexpected loss of CAPI respondents in social surveys during COVID-19. It covers efforts to reduce response loss, quantifies the impact of...

Revenue and expenditure, net balance and debt of the general government sector, in million euros and as a pecentage of GDP.

What is the impact of crime on its victims?

Collecting climate data should be just as routine for statistical institutes around the world as collecting data on the population or the economy.

Professional status, full-time, employed as researcher Sex, PhD characteristics

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.

The international statistical guidelines provide little guidance on how to account for fossil fuel subsidies. In this report we explore the already published estimates and make an attempt to define a...

CBS uses scientifically proven methods to guarantee the quality of its products and services.

On 23 May 2024, CBS and De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) published the first results of the revision of the Dutch macroeconomic statistics

The European statistics office Eurostat held its fifth European Big Data Hackathon in Brussels between 6 and 11 March 2025.

The Investment Indicator analyses developments in private sector investment.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) regularly asks Dutch people to participate in one of its surveys. A survey is conducted by random sampling. This video explains what this entails. Would you like to know...

The Exports Indicator is an instrument to analyse developments in exports of goods.

The Household Consumption Indicator is an instrument to analyse developments in consumption by Dutch households.

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

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.