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Unemployment almost unchanged
According to the latest figures 456 thousand people in the Netherlands were registered as unemployed (5.8 percent of the labour force) in December last year, as many as in November.
Baby boomers push up pension spending
The Dutch government spent 15.8 billion euro on state old age pensions in the first half of 2011. This is 6 percent more than in the same period last year.
Increase in unemployment benefits slows down, decrease in labour disablement benefits
In the first quarter of 2004 the number of unemployments benefits (WW) grew again and totalled 311 thousand at the end of March but the growth rate is slowing down. The number of benefits paid under...
Income distribution (standardised income)
The visualisation shows how income is distributed over households in the Netherlands.
Marginal increase in number of vacancies
The number of vacancies increased marginally in the fourth quarter of 2004. After adjustment for seasonal effects, there were 128 thousand unfilled vacancies on 31 December 2004, that is 2 thousand...
Larger rise in collectively agreed wages in third quarter
Collectively agreed wage rates in the Netherlands rose by 1.7 percent in the third quarter of 2012. This is the largest increase in collectively agreed wages since the end of 2009. The increase is...
More and more people take medicines
In 2004 the number of people in the Netherlands taking prescribed or unprescribed medicines increased further. Contraceptive pill use among women continued to decline. People had fewer GP contacts...
Electricity imports at record level
At the same time production at gas-fired electricity plants was at its lowest level of the last ten years.
Production renewable electricity down in 2007
The production of renewable electricity dropped from 6.5 percent of domestic electricity consumption in 2006 to 6.0 percent in 2007.
Total amount deposited in life course schemes substantially down
Last year, the annual amount deposited in life course savings schemes was the lowest since the scheme was introduced in 2006. Employees deposited 786 million euro, i.e. a decline by 13 percent...
Relatively more women unemployed in the course of time
The economic crisis pushed up unemployment in the Netherlands to 4.8 percent in 2009. This is still very low compared with the towering levels in the 1930s.
Number of homicides halved over two decades
In 2019, there were 125 victims of murder or manslaughter in the Netherlands: 81 men and 44 women.
€2 bn trade surplus in transport services with the UK
In Q1-Q3 2019 the Netherlands imported services from the UK to a value of 17.1 billion euros, while service exports to the UK amounted to 19.3 billion euros. The trade surplus with the UK stood at...
Revenues from government taxes increase only 2 percent in 2008
In 2008, revenues from government taxes were just short of 136 billion euro, a 2 percent increase relative to 2007. Last year’s growth evidently slowed down relative to the period 2005-2007, when the...
No further slump factory gate prices manufacturing industry
Dutch manufactured products were nearly 14 percent cheaper in June 2009 than in June 2008. The price drop was virtually the same as in May. In June, factory gate prices were over 1 percent up on May...
Price drop manufactured products levels off
Factory gate prices in Dutch manufacturing industry were 12.5 percent lower in August 2009 than in August 2008. The price drop was less substantial than in July, when prices of manufactured products...