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Adjusted for court days, 352 businesses (including sole proprietorships) were declared bankrupt in May. That is 8 more bankruptcies than in the same period a year earlier.

The economic picture was more negative in July than in June.

The median purchasing power on Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba increased in 2024.

Prices for consumer goods and services on Bonaire were 3.3 percent higher in Q2 2026 than they were in Q2 2025

Output prices for products manufactured in the Netherlands were 0.1 percent lower in October 2025 than one year previously.

A total of 41 percent of people in paid employment think that their job could be done partly by artificial intelligence (AI), and 4 percent expect AI to take over their job completely.

The economic picture was equally negative in May as in April.

Two-thirds of entrepreneurs are dealing with shortage of staff.

Developments, expectations and opinions of businesses Regions, confidence margins

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) will publish its first statistics using the new SBI codes (Standard Industrial Classification) in 2026.

The economic picture was more negative in April than in March.

Productive hours Productive hours in construction of buildings

Recent years have seen a succession of global crises, each of which has led to temporary disruptions to trade around the world: Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, the energy crisis and the recent...

How did the economy and labour market perform in the first quarter of 2025? CBS chief economist Peter Hein van Mulligen gives a summary.

Men who leave education during less favourable economic conditions find it harder to enter the labour force than men who leave education when the economy is performing better.

Biological pest control was used in 94 percent of greenhouse crop cultivation in 2024 (by cultivated area)

The economic picture was slightly more negative in March than in February.

The economic picture was less negative in June than in May.

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.

Producer confidence declined further in June.

The Dutch economy grew by 1.8 percent in 2025.

The Dutch motor vehicle industry generated a total of 42.5 thousand full-time jobs in the Dutch economy in 2022 due to exports.

This article explains in more detail the latest estimate of the illegal economy for reporting year 2021. Special attention is paid to the difference between income generated within the Dutch borders...

Output prices for Dutch-manufactured products were 0.6 percent higher in September 2025 than one year previously.

The economic picture was more negative in January than in December.