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In December 2025, the calendar-adjusted output of the Dutch manufacturing sector was 1.3 percent higher than it was in December 2024.

A total of 78.4 million air passengers travelled to and from the Netherlands’ five main airports in 2025.

In 2025, 80 percent of companies made it possible for their employees to work remotely, such as from home.

Nearly 80 thousand homes were added to the Netherlands’ housing stock in 2025, in the form of newbuild or other types of development

The number of elderly people in the Netherlands continues to grow. People aged 65 and over now outnumber young people aged under 20 for the first time.

Retail turnover was 3.0 percent higher in December 2025, year on year.

Gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.5 percent in Q4 2025 relative to the previous quarter.

The Netherlands received 24.1 thousand first-time asylum applications in 2025, down by 8 thousand from 2024

Output prices for products manufactured in the Netherlands were 1.7 percent lower in December 2025 than one year previously.

In October 2025, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 5.6 percent year on year.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports in a flash estimate that the CPI-measured inflation rate stood at 3.3 percent in May 2025.

An increasing number of homes in the Netherlands are heated without the use of natural gas

Households spent 0.8 percent more on goods and services in October 2025, year on year.

Over 80 percent of school students in the Caribbean Netherlands want to live somewhere else after they finish secondary education.

In November 2025, the volume of investment in tangible fixed assets was down by 4.1 percent year on year.

Government spending was 12 billion euros higher than its revenues in 2024.

Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.2 Peace, justice and strong institutions: institutions. SDG 16.2 relates to institutions such as the Dutch House of Representatives, the police,...

In November 2025, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 4.7 percent year on year.

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Consumer goods and services in the Netherlands in 2025 rose by 3.3 percent, on average compared to 2024, when inflation also stood at 3.3 percent.

In 2024, 2.3 million people in the Netherlands worked mostly or always in the evening, at night, or on weekends — 23 percent of the employed labour force.

In 2025, there were 592 thousand goats kept on goat farms in the Netherlands.

Businesses in the Netherlands invested 39 percent less in the environment in 2024 than in the previous year

Retail turnover was 3.9 percent higher in November 2025, year on year.

In the 2023/24 academic year, nearly 22 thousand German students were attending university or higher professional education (HBO) programmes in the Netherlands.