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Recent figures by Eurostat show that last year, the Netherlands was the EU’s third exporting country after Germany and France.

Inflation was up on all three islands of the Caribbean Netherlands in the first quarter of 2014. On Bonaire it was 1.3 percent, on St Eustatius 2.5 percent and on Saba 1.4 percent.

The mood among Dutch consumers remained stable in June relative to May. The consumer confidence indicator remained unchanged at -2. Pessimists still outnumber optimists, though only just.

According to the most recent figures, unemployment adjusted for seasonal variation stood at 489 thousand in May, almost the same as in April.

In the period 1998-2008, the amount of electricity generated in the Netherlands increased from 92 to 108 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh). The increase is mainly generated in combined heat and power...

A majority in the Dutch population have confidence in their fellow men and in various national and international institutions. The Netherlands takes up a prominent position in Europe in this respect.

In 2006, foreign influence on the non-financial private sector increased further. Non-financial companies realised a total value added to the amount of 305 billion euro.

The number of jobs of employees was 137 thousand lower in the second quarter of 2013 than in the same period of 2012, a reduction by 1.7 percent.

Turnover growth in the transport sector increased by nearly 3 percent in 2010 relative to the preceding year.

The number of solar panels installed in the Netherlands has grown further in 2011. Total capacity was raised by 40 megawatts, i.e. twice as much as in 2010.

Many voters in the Netherlands use the possibility of voting by proxy. In the 2010 Lower Chamber elections, 8 percent of voters had authorised someone else to vote for them.

In 2006, revenues from oil and natural gas extraction were the highest since 1990.

Three quarters of children aged between 4 and 12 did not travel unaccompanied in 2010.

Tthere were 304 thousand people who defaulted on the Dutch health insurance payments on 1 September 2009.

Under the National Survivor Benefits Act (Anw), 105 thousand benefits were paid to claimants in March 2010. This is 9 thousand fewer than twelve months previously.

In 2019, 58 percent of the Dutch population aged 12 years and over had made use of online platforms to order or exchange goods or services.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.8 percent higher in January than in the same month last year. In December, prices of consumer goods and services were up by 2.7 percent year-on-year.

Prices of products manufactured in the Netherlands were almost 6 percent up in May 2017 from last year.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports that the Dutch retail sector achieved 4 percent turnover growth in February.

Producer confidence less positive

Increasing amounts of government data are published online as open data.

Collectively agreed wage rates in the Netherlands were 1.3 percent higher in the third quarter of 2011 than in the same period last year.