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According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 2.1 percent in Q3 2021 relative to Q2 2021. In the first estimate growth amounted...

From June 2023, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) will employ a new method to measure the energy prices paid by consumers. The aim is to derive a more accurate inflation rate.

In January 2023, CBS will start publishing the CPI a few days earlier. Why is that, and what does it mean?

Consumers spent over 4 percent more in August 2022 compared to one year previously. They spent more on services, but less on goods.

On 1 January 2017, there were around 4.1 million fathers versus 4.8 million mothers in the Netherlands.

In August 2022, the total volume of goods exports was up by 2.5 percent year on year.

In October 2022, the volume of investments in tangible fixed assets was 4.5 percent larger year on year. This is mainly because investments in buildings and passenger cars were up.

Once in every four calendar years a leap day is intercalated. The year 2008 is a leap year, but the extra day appears to have little effect on the economy.

In 2013, the number of children attending day care centres has fallen for the second year in a row. On 31 December 2011, 322 thousand 0 to 3-year-old children attended day care centres versus 284...

Last year, 25 strikes were organized in the Netherlands. The number of lost working days involved was the lowest since 1985.

On average, European hauliers made 158 thousand international road transport trips carrying loads across one or more European borders every day in 2014. Dutch transport companies accounted for more...

Dutch people aged 12 years or older – including those who never drink - drink 1 unit of alcohol a day on average.

According to Statistics Netherlands, 524 businesses and institutions (excluding one-man businesses) were declared bankrupt in September 2014, 59 more than in the preceding month. The increase was...

In August 2004, turnover in the Dutch retail trade was down by 5.6 percent on August 2003. This decrease is largely due to a less favourable shopping day pattern in August 2004 compared to 2003....

The number of corporate bankruptcies, adjusted for court session days, has decreased in October.

Although most children in the Netherlands grow up with two parents, one in seven children experience the divorce of their parents. After a divorce, the contact between children and their fathers...

In 2010 Dutch passenger cars averaged 13.3 thousand kilometres a year in the Netherlands and abroad. This is 2.1 percent less than in 2009.