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The passenger car fleet has increased from 41 thousand in 1927 to 8.5 million in 2019, i.e. over 200 times. This is inter alia due to population growth, rising incomes and more commuter traffic.

Flowers and plants are not the most important export products, but the level of specialisation with respect to these products is high in the Netherlands.

There were 40 more bankruptcies in October 2018 than in the previous month. Most bankruptcies were recorded in the trade sector.

There were 23 strikes in 2025, which was 13 fewer than in 2024.

Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers improved in November 2022.

In April 2005 turnover in retail trade was 3.5 percent down on April 2004. Retailers have suffered turnover losses for two years now.

Adjusted for seasonal variation, 592 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed in January 2013, an increase by 21 thousand relative to December 2012. Unemployment has risen almost...

The total amount of hours worked in temp jobs increased by 2.5 percent in the third quarter relative to the second quarter, the most substantial increase in four years.

In the second quarter of 2023, 1 in 7 unemployed people were long-term unemployed, i.e. twelve months or more.

Over one-fifth of the Dutch population aged 18 years or older consider themselves very happy. They rate their degree of happiness with a score of 9 or 10.

Latest data contributing to worldwide monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 Gender equality. SDG 5 advocates equal treatment of and an equal position in society for men and women. In...

According to the most recent figures, seasonally adjusted unemployment rose marginally in March 2012 to 465 thousand, i.e. 5.9 percent of the labour force.

A person who works, not on the basis of a an explicit employment contract, in the company or practice of the partner or parents.

Households spent 0.8 percent more on goods and services in December 2025, year on year.

The metres of shelves available in units fir for shelving archives in use for an archives own items.

Nearly 20.7 million air passengers passed through the Netherlands’ five major airports in Q2 2025

The economic climate in April 2024 is more negative than it was in March.

Most confectionery imported into the Netherlands in 2013 came from Belgium and Germany. Only 3 percent came from Spain, from where St Nicholas traditionally travels to the Netherlands with gifts of...

Municipal waste of vegetable or animal origin. This includes the biogenic fraction of mixed waste flows.

Generation of electricity by wind turbines grew by nearly 20 percent last year. According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS) over half of total renewable electricity in 2015 was generated by wind...