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Over one million more people are expected to be living in the Netherlands in thirty years’ time. According to Statistics Netherlands latest national population forecast, the population will grow from...

In 2012, the Dutch share of exports of goods to large emerging markets like China, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia was relatively modest compared to Germany and Belgium. Within the EU 28, the...

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is studying the possibilities of improving statistics with innovative methodologies, such as big data sources. Research findings from the US gave rise to the question...

In some parts of the Netherlands, especially in the periphery of the country, the population will decrease substantially in the next thirty years. In one quarter of Dutch municipalities the number of...

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) announced that the volume of investments in tangible fixed assets grew by 12.1 percent in September 2015 relative to September 2014. The increase is again mainly due to...

Dutch economic growth came to 1.5 percent in the third quarter of 2004 compared with the same quarter in 2003. The is the largest increase in the volume of gross domestic product (GDP) in the last...

Retail trade ended 2015 on a positive note. December turnover was up by 3.3 percent from one year previously. Retailers recorded altogether 1.4 percent more turnover in 2015, the sharpest growth in...

Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers has hardly changed in December 2019.

Statistics Netherlands reports that Dutch retail turnover was up by 3.2 percent in July 2015 on July 2014, mainly because of growing sales (3.4 percent). Prices fell by 0.2 percent. Most of the...

The volume of exports of goods was 4.1 percent up in July 2014 from July 2013, after a 3.2 percent improvement in June. According to Statistics Netherlands, the growth in exports was mainly caused by...

According to Statistics Netherlands’ Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation has improved marginally in March 2015 relative to February.

Statistics Netherlands reports today that optimism about the Dutch economy prevails. Nearly all relevant indicators perform above the level of their long-term average. The economic situation improved...

On 11 April 2011 Statistics Netherlands introduced the monthly vacancy indicator. This indicator is representative for the trend in the number of vacancies.

Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers has deteriorated in November 2019.

The importance of exports has increased substantially in the period 2010-2013. In 2013, exports contributed 32.4 percent to the GDP, i.e. 3 percentage points more than in 2010.

Hotels and restaurants in the Netherlands booked 6.2 percent more turnover in the first quarter of 2011 than in the same quarter last year.

Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers has deteriorated in September 2019.

According to Statistics Netherlands’ Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation in January 2015 is about the same as in December, but the economic recovery is still fragile.

Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers has deteriorated in January 2020.

Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers has improved.

Fewer young people own are cars, but the car ownership rate among older people is growing. The total number of cars, mopeds and motorcycles in the Netherlands is still growing, though less rapidly.

According to Statistics Netherlands’ Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation has improved somewhat again in April 2015 relative to March. In the last two months, the economy also improved.