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Last year, 28 thousand native Dutch left the Netherlands to settle elsewhere, i.e. 9 thousand fewer than in record year 2006. The most popular destinations were Belgium and Germany.

Early 2013, more than 25 thousand people in the Netherlands were homeless; 39 percent of homeless are living in Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague and Rotterdam. One in five homeless are women. Homeless...

Non-financial companies in the Netherlands repaid 3.0 billion euro more on outstanding loans than they borrowed in new loans in the first quarter of 2010. The credit crisis and uncertain economic...

Turnover generated by the Dutch retail sector was at approximately the same level in February 2014 as in February 2013. Average retail prices were 0.3 percent down from twelve months previously. The...

The average age at which employees go into retirement has risen further in 2012 to 63.6 years, i.e. an increase by six months relative to 2011.

According to the house price index of existing own homes – a joint publication by Statistics Netherlands and the Land Registry Office – prices of houses sold in May 2010 were on average 2.2 percent...

Between November 2019 and January 2020, the number of people in paid employment grew by 21 thousand per month on average, ending at 9.1 million in January.

CBS and the municipality of The Hague are collaborating in a CBS Urban Data Centre / The Hague as of 26 September 2017.

The volume of goods transported in the Netherlands reached a new record last year.

In 2011 wind energy, hydro power, solar power and biomass produced 12 billion kWh of electricity. This is almost 10 percent of the Dutch consumption of electricity and close to the production in 2010.

Turnover growth of business services was again lower in the second quarter of 2010 compared to a year earlier. Turnover fell by less than in the first quarter. Companies providing business services...

The mood among Dutch consumers weakened further in October. The consumer confidence indicator fell by 3 points to – 33.

Seasonally adjusted unemployment in the period August-October 2006 averaged 413 thousand, almost the same as in the period July-September 2006.

328 thousand persons (4.3 percent of the total labour force) were unemployed in the period July-September 2007.

Unemployment increased across all Dutch provinces last year. The highest rates were recorded in Flevoland, South Holland and Groningen.

Nearly 830 thousand clients consulted the Legal Advice Desk last year, more than 2 percent fewer than in 2009.

In June, manufacturers had reduced their stocks of finished products by more than 13 percent relative to the same month one year previously. The reduction was in the same order of magnitude as in the...

The Dutch households, over 7 million, had an average of 33 500 euro to spend in 2008. Almost 130 thousand households had a net disposable income of 100 thousand or more.