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Strong growth in security holdings of pension funds and insurance companies
The combined security holdings of pension funds and insurance companies rose by nearly 20 percent in 2005.
SDG 10.2 Financial sustainability
Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10 Reduced inequalities: financial sustainability. SDG 10.2 aims to reduce inequality. The Dutch population and government incur debts and build up...
Revenues from government taxes increase only 2 percent in 2008
In 2008, revenues from government taxes were just short of 136 billion euro, a 2 percent increase relative to 2007. Last year’s growth evidently slowed down relative to the period 2005-2007, when the...
Moderate growth exports in March
The volume of exports of goods was more than 2 percent higher in March 2011 than twelve months previously. The growth rate was lower than in the preceding months. The volume of goods imports was 7...
Price drop manufactured products levels off
Factory gate prices in Dutch manufacturing industry were 12.5 percent lower in August 2009 than in August 2008. The price drop was less substantial than in July, when prices of manufactured products...
Again fewer job vacancies
The vacancy indicator improved somewhat more in June, after marginal improvements in April and May.
Inflation rate marginally up to 2 percent
January’s inflation rate has climbed to 2.0 percent whereas in December, consumer prices were on average 1.9 percent higher than one year previously.
Number of job vacancies down further
After correction for seasonal effects, 127 thousands jobs were vacant by the end of June 2009, i.e. 25 thousand less than at the end of March 2009. This decrease is smaller than in the two preceding...
Private sector investments down
The volume of private sector investments in tangible fixed assets was 8.6 percent down in July 2013 from July 2012. The decline was less substantial than in June, when private sector investments were...
Unemployment remains unchanged
The seasonally adjusted unemployment figure for November 2011 stood at 455 thousand.
Schools do not save up operating surplus
Although schools in secondary and tertiary education often have an operating surplus at the end of the year, they do not always save it up. Most schools use the money to invest in buildings or...
Vehicle kilometres goods vehicles; vehicle weight and territory 2001-2017
Vehicle kilometres of lorries and road tractors (Dutch and foreign vehicles) by territory, vehicle construction years, gross vehicle weight
Slightly more job vacancies
The vacancy indicator provides a quick indication of the trend in job vacancies in the private sector. The indicator improved further in December.
Unemployment further down
In April this year, 392 thousand people (5.0 percent of the labour force) were unemployed in the Netherlands. The figure is adjusted for seasonal variation.
Smoking has become much more expensive within the last 5 years
The price of cigarettes and hand-rolled cigarette tobacco rose by 38 percent over the last 5 years. This is substantially more than the 10 percent inflation rate in this period.
Fewer job vacancies
At the end of September 2011, there were 133 thousand job vacancies, i.e. 4 thousand fewer than at the end of June. The number of job vacancies had grown continuously over the five preceding...