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The number of inhabitants in Amsterdam is growing, mainly due to foreign migration

In 2015, the median purchasing power of Saba’s local population improved by 2.2 percent.

In the fourth quarter of 2015 unemployment declined by an average of 7 thousand a month, whereas the downward trend stalled in August and September. In December 588 thousand people in the Netherlands...

The number of unemployed hardly changed in October. In the period May-September, unemployment declined each month.

The average daily output generated by Dutch manufacturing industry was 0.4 percent up in September 2013 from September 2012. For the first time this year, manufacturing output was above the level...

In 2007, the Dutch spent 22.4 million long holidays in the Netherlands and abroad, three times as many as in 1969. Compared to 1969, the Dutch more often go on holiday.

In 2006, the number of bankruptcies declined for the first time since 2000. Last year 9,200 bankruptcies were filed, a decrease by 9 percent on 2005.

The volume of exports of goods was more than 2 percent smaller in October than twelve months previously. The volume of exports declined for the first time in nearly two years.

In 2019, the control room of The Netherlands Fire Service processed 238 thousand reported incidents, i.e. 3 percent less than in the previous year. The number of reports and call-outs was up for both...

In the first quarter of 2009, turnover for the sector hotels and restaurants was 6.1 percent down on the same quarter one year previously. A similar reduction has not been recorded since the sector...

In 2011, the number of pensioners has exceeded 3 million for the first time. This means that currently nearly one in every five Dutch residents is a pensioner. The proportion of pensioners in the age...

In the second quarter of 2005 turnover in Dutch retail trade was 2.4 percent down on the same period last year. For the ninth time in a row retail turnover was lower than in the previous quarter.

At the beginning of 2021, Dutch entrepreneurs had a predominantly negative opinion about exports for the fourth consecutive quarter, despite less pessimism among manufacturers compared to the...

The percentage of overweight Dutch adults fell for the first time in years in 2005, among both men and women.

In 2016, 61 children under the age of 15 died of cancer. Fifty years ago, this number was over four times as high.

The Dutch fire services received 47 reports of fires in 2007. This is 5 percent fewer than in 2006.

According to the first estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands GDP expanded by 0.2 percent in Q3 2018 relative to the previous quarter.

Gross domestic product (GDP) posted a growth rate of 1.5 percent in Q2 2017 relative to Q1

The median disposable income in the Caribbean Netherlands in 2012 was highest in St Eustatius (27 thousand USD), followed by Saba (24 thousand USD) and Bonaire (23 thousand USD).

On 1 January 2009, just over 1.1 million people in the Netherlands had at least one other nationality alongside the Dutch nationality. This is nearly three times the number on 1 January 1995.

The total balance in bank savings accounts of Dutch households was more than 7 billion euro on 31 December 2010. This is nearly three times the amount in these accounts twelve months previously.