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Terms of trade improved
Dutch terms of trade of imported and exported goods improved in March 2013 relative to March 2012. Prices of imported and exported goods were respectively 1.7 and 0.8 percent down from one year...
International road haulage over 4 percent up in 2017
In 2017, 199 million tonnes of goods were transported by road from and to the Netherlands. This is an increase of 4.3 percent on the previous year.
Dutch couples increasingly meet online or at work
More and more Dutch couples are meeting via the internet or at work, while fewer people met on an evening out or on holiday in the last ten years.
SDG 14 Life below water
Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 Life below water. SDG 14 is aimed at protection and sustainable use of seas and oceans.
Profitability non-financial companies further down
In the first quarter of 2009, net profits of non-financial companies amounted to 22.7 billion euro, i.e. 10.6 billion euro down on the first quarter of 2008. For the fifth quarter...
Tourism sector mainly grows through foreign tourists
The contribution of the tourism sector to Dutch GDP rose from 3.2 percent in 2010 to 3.6 percent in 2013 according to the latest figures released by Statistics Netherlands today. The tourism sector...
ICT, knowledge and economy 2015, summary
describes in brief how individuals and companies use ICT
Imputation
Sometimes data are missing from surveys and registers, for example because a respondent cannot or will not answer a question. One way to cope with such missing values is to impute valid values, so...
Trade union membership further down
By the end of March 2013, there were nearly 1.8 million trade union members in the Netherlands, a reduction by 52 thousand relative to one year previously.
Macro integration - data reconciliation
Macro-economic statistics published by Statistics Netherlands must be consistent. The figure for GDP calculated according to the income approach, for example, must be the same as the figure...
No increase restructured debt arrangements
Last year, 14.9 thousand court orders for debt repayments were pronounced, approximately as many as in 2006. This put a stop to the annual increase.
Dutch Census 2011
The book “Dutch Census 2011” gives some key figures of the Netherlands, a global historical comparison with earlier Dutch Censuses, a comparison of some results with other European...
Households spent 1 thousand euros on sport in 2010
In 2010, spending on sports accounted for 1 percent of GDP. Per Dutch households, an average of more than 1 thousand euros is annually spent on sports activities and watching sports.
Retail sales marginally lower
Dutch retail sales were nearly 1 percent lower in July 2011 than in July 2010.
Unemployment down again
460 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed in the first quarter of 2006.
Housing costs in the Netherlands higher than in most EU countries
People in the Netherlands spend an average of 23 percent of their disposable income on a place to live, which is the sixth highest proportion in the European Union