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Retail turnover was 3.8 percent higher in January 2025 than it was in January 2024. Sales volume was up by 2.0 percent.

Migrants from India are more likely to remain in the Netherlands, and for longer than they did in previous years.

In 2024, 22.7 percent of companies with ten or more workers used one or more forms of AI technology.

In September 2025, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 2.6 percent year on year.

In 2020, the number of salaried jobs in the Caribbean Netherlands fell by almost 2 percent year-on-year.

In 2024, the police recorded an average of 2,220 crimes per day: 812 thousand in total.

Entrepreneurial confidence showed a slight decline at the start of Q4 2023, ending at -10.1.

Prices of Dutch-manufactured products were on average 4 percent down in December 2020 year-on-year.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.4 percent higher in July than in the same month last year.

In the first half of 2023, 78 percent of the population aged 12 years or older said they had made an online purchase.

In July 2021, the economic situation according to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer has become slightly more positive.

On 1 January 2025, there were 740 breweries in the Netherlands: 40 fewer than in early 2024.

In the third quarter of 2021, consumer goods and services on Bonaire were 4.3 percent more expensive than one year previously.

Almost two-thirds of firms are experiencing staff shortages, and most are now turning to automation as a means of addressing this issue.

The economic picture was slightly more negative in February than it was in January, according to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer.

In May 2025, the volume of investment in tangible fixed assets was down by 4 percent year on year.

Consumers were less negative in July.

In 2020, Dutch gross domestic product (GDP) per capita amounted to nearly 46 thousand euros.

In the first three quarters of 2024, Dutch companies exported goods with a value of 28.2 billion euros to the United States

In 2024, 449 million kilograms of nitrogen compounds were emitted in livestock manure, a fall of 3 percent compared with the previous year.

In 2020 the Dutch retail sector achieved 5.9 percent year-on-year turnover growth, the second-highest growth rate recorded this century. However, due to the measures against the spread of...

In September, owner-occupied dwellings (excluding new constructions) were on average 18.5 percent more expensive than in the same month last year.

In 2020, the employed labour force in the Caribbean Netherlands hardly increased compared to 2018.

According to the first quarterly estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) on the basis of currently available data, in Q3 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 0.2 percent relative...

Households spent 1.9 percent less in September 2023 year on year, adjusted for price changes. They bought fewer services and fewer goods.