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In Q2 2020, the youth labour participation rate fell from 65.9 to 60.3 percent, returning to the level of Q1 2016.

In the fourth quarter of 2012 turnover in the Dutch business services sector was lower than a year earlier. This meant that after three quarters of turnover growth, the fourth quarter of 2012 saw a...

In February, there were 340 thousand unemployed. Just as in January, this is equivalent to 3.6 percent of the labour force.

The population of the Netherlands grew by 39 thousand in Q3 2020. In Q2, during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of inhabitants was still slightly down.

The population group in the Netherlands with a non-western foreign background will age strongly in the next few decades. According to Statistics Netherlands’ latest forecast of the foreign population...

In Q1 2021, consumer goods and services on Bonaire were 3.2 percent cheaper than one year previously. The inflation rate was still -5.2 percent in Q4 2020.

The projected number of over-65s will exceed 3.8 million in 2025. If no action is taken, the number of people entitled to the state old age pension (AOW) in the Netherlands would grow by 1.1 million...

Over the past few years, the United States and the European Union have imposed import tariffs on parts of each other’s exports in several rounds, most recently last month. The additional EU import...

In 2020, the number of asylum seekers was almost 40 percent down on the previous year. Nearly 14 thousand people submitted a first-time asylum application last year.

The number of guests in Dutch overnight accommodations fell by 17% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same period a year earlier. Especially the hotels and comparable accommodations saw the...

The volume of investments in tangible fixed assets in December 2020 was the same as in December 2019.

An average half a million people in the Netherlands were unemployed in the first quarter of 2004. This is 128 thousand more than in the same quarter last year. In the last three months, 6.6 percent...

In 2019, altogether 629 billion kg of goods arrived in the Netherlands, i.e. 1 percent up on the previous year.

The economic situation at the end of January 2012 was about the same as at the end of December 2011. Improvements and downswings more or less balanced each other out. The heart of the scatter in the...

In 2020, the gross seed onion yield declined by 4 percent relative to the previous year. The gross yield of ware potatoes remained virtually unchanged.

In October 2020, there were 406 thousand unemployed, equivalent to 4.3 percent of the labour force.

In December 2020, there were 368 thousand unemployed, equivalent to 3.9 percent of the labour force.

Producing an overview of innovative companies in a country is a challenging task.

The annual gender ratio at birth for the Netherlands is 105 boys to every 100 girls. This ‘male surplus’ is still reflected in young adults: there are more 20 to 24-year-old men than women in the...

In the last quarter of 2015, residential property prices in all Dutch provinces were up from one year previously. The highest increase was in the province of North Holland with 6.1 percent, partly...

Consumers spent 11.9 percent less in December 2020 than in the same month last year.

Following a long period of growth, business services turnover fell for the first time in the second quarter of 2009. Turnover growth rates in the various branches differed strongly from those in the...

For women in the Netherlands, the risk of dying during pregnancy or childbirth has decreased more than tenfold since the middle of the twentieth century. The largest decrease was in the period...

Nearly 30 thousand persons living on social security benefits by the end of 2009 managed to find jobs in 2010, i.e. 9 percent of social security recipients. In the category municipalities with 100...

As of Q1 2018, CBS is publishing a new CPI series using a more recent reference year: 2017=100. The first results were published on 25 April 2018.