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

Statistics Netherlands reports today that retail turnover was 1.4 percent down in August 2015 from the same month last year. The decline is partly due to the fact that the shopping-day pattern was...

Forty years ago to the day, on 27 February 1971, the first abortion clinic opened its doors in the Netherlands. Approximately 28 thousand abortions are carried out on women living in the Netherlands...

The longer an educational programme takes to complete, the more a diploma will cost. However, the price of a diploma correlates a lot more with the previous education routes of students than the...

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.

The number of emigrants is continually growing. In the first nine months of 2006, nearly 100 thousand people left the Netherlands to settle elsewhere.

One in four Dutch children were cared for in an official day-care provision in 2007. This is more than in 2006, when one in five children were in official childcare.

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

In Q1 2020, the number of guests staying in Dutch overnight accommodations declined by 17 percent relative to the same period last year. Hotels and similar accommodations in particular received fewer...

Our information searching behaviour on the Internet is intensifying. We used to just type a question into a search engine, but this has become more and more obsolete

Producers in the manufacturing industry expect to invest 7 percent less in 2019 than in 2018. They also anticipate investments for 2018 to be 44 percent higher than in 2017 by the end of the year.

In 2017 there were 158 victims of murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands, including 112 men and 46 women. There were 108 victims in 2016.

In 2019, total energy consumption in the Netherlands stood at 3,080 petajoules (PJ), more or less the same as in the previous year.

The monthly publication of the average consumer prices for electricity and gas provides insight into the movements of average prices paid by Dutch households for new contracts.

Assistances by the fire brigade by object and activities, divided by regions, provinces and size of cities

Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 Partnerships for the goals. SDG 17 differs from the other SDGs in that it does not set concrete quantitative targets around one theme.

Use, accounts and licenses Dutch online public library e-books, audio books and courses

Dutch passenger vehicles covered a record distance of 121.4 bn km in 2018, an increase of 1.2 percent on 2017. This was mainly on account of business-owned vehicles. Diesel mileage declined again...

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports that the Dutch retail sector achieved 2.6 percent turnover growth in February year-on-year, while the volume of sales increased by 2 percent. Turnover grew in...

In 2017, the trade deficits of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba were higher than in 2016.

The consumer price index (CPI) rose to 1.6 percent in April.

Dutch road hauliers carried 2.5 percent more goods in 2016, mainly in the Netherlands.

On 30 June 2016, the Netherlands’ Presidency of the European Union came to an end.