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The inflation rate in the Netherlands was 1.3 percent in January 2006. This is a sharp drop from December, when prices were 2.0 percent up on twelve months previously.

In the period September-November 2009 there were on average 400 thousand people unemployed. This constitutes 5.2 percent of the labour force.

In 2016, domestic consumption of metals was over 40 percent lower than in 2000.

Dutch car dealers faced a turnover loss of 4.5 percent in 2008. Last year, disappointing sales figures were recorded and the trend continued into the first month of 2009, although 2 percent more cars...

Nearly 23 thousand people received the Dutch nationality through naturalisation in 2009.

Turnover in the sector accommodation and food services rose by 184 percent in Q4 2018 relative to the preceding quarter.

The cultivation area for sugar beets in the Netherlands grew by 21 percent in just one year.

The real disposable income of Dutch households was 2.6 percent lower in the first quarter of 2013 than in the same period last year. This is mainly the result of the high inflation rate: prices of...

640 people were killed in traffic accidents in the Netherlands in 2010. This is 11 percent fewer than the 720 deaths in 2009, and continues the downward trend observed in the last few years.

The proportion of social security claimants who found a new job declined further last year. Since the start of the survey in 2007, the proportion has never been so low.

“You can only govern a country, if you know the figures”, is a slogan used by Statistics Netherlands. The slogan also applies to the islands of Bonaire, Saint. Eustatius and Saba,...

The Netherlands performs poorly when it comes to meeting the targets as agreed upon in the EU Directive Renewable Energy for 2020. In fact, only France does worse. The target set for the Netherlands...

Dutch retail trade is lagging behind retail trade in other countries in Europe. Its volume increase of 1.0 percent is below the EU average of 2 percent. In only eight of the other 27 EU countries was...

Unemployment in the Netherlands grew by 131 thousand over the previous three months, to 404 thousand in June. This is 4.3 percent of the labour force.

In 2018, the volume of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted by the Dutch transport sector amounted to 26 billion CO2 equivalents.

Goods are increasingly transferred to logistics hubs before onward transportation, often to or from the Port of Rotterdam.

Where are greenhouse gasses emitted?

Turnover in the sector accommodation and food services rose by 0.4 percent in Q3 2018 relative to the preceding quarter.

The international trade and transit trade statistics give insight into the international commodity flows from, to and through the Netherlands.

In the period 2014-2016, six percent of companies employing more than 50 people moved some of their business operations abroad.

Preliminary results of ongoing big data research into online purchases by Dutch consumers from foreign webshops.

After years of decline, Dutch imports of palm oil increased again in 2017; 22 percent up compared to 2016.