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Municipal waste; quantities, 1993-2015
Amount of waste collected by the municipal authorities broken down by province, size class and degree of urbanization
Positive results for sector hotels and restaurants in spring
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) announced today that hotels, restaurants and pubs collectively achieved a turnover growth of 1.3 percent in the second quarter of 2014 relative to the first quarter.
House prices continue to rise
In June 2018, house prices reached an all-time high.
House prices at all-time high in May
In May 2018, house prices reached an all-time high.
The Netherlands in European top 5 of 'lifelong learning'
In comparison with the rest of the EU, the Dutch are relatively active participants in ‘lifelong learning’. Training for work or leisure is more popular among highly educated and those working in...
More suicides
Last year, 1,871 people in the Netherlands committed suicide, the highest number ever.
Unemployment further down
In the fourth quarter of 2015 unemployment declined by an average of 7 thousand a month, whereas the downward trend stalled in August and September. In December 588 thousand people in the Netherlands...
Growth investments slows down
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports that the volume of investments in tangible fixed assets grew by 4.2 percent in January 2015 on an annual basis. The increase is far less substantial than in the...
House prices slightly down
Prices of existing owner-occupied residential property sold in August 2010 were on average 0.4 percent lower than in August 2009. Since February 2009, house prices have been continuously lower than...
Prices manufacturing industry continue to fall
Selling prices of products manufactured in the Netherlands were 3.7 percent down in November from November 2013. In October, prices were 2.1 percent down from twelve months previously. According to...
Common crime down slightly
A quarter of the population indicated that they had been the victim of common crime in 2003. This is les than in 2002, but about the same as in the years before that. Theft and vandalism decreased,...
Inflation rate up to 1.6 percent in June
The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.6 percent higher in June than in the same month last year.
Feelings of safety unchanged
The Dutch popluation has been less affected by crime in recent years. At the end of 2008, one in four people in the Netherlands said they had been the victim of a criminal offence in the previous...
Half of unloaded containers carried by container giants
On container shipments arriving in the Port of Rotterdam.
Damage caused by fires highest in half a decade
The amount of damage caused by fires totalled 1 billion euro in 2008, the highest amount since 2003. The number of fires declined marginally relative to 2007, but fires claimed more lives.