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Government consumption was the main source of economic growth in 2024.

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

The number of passengers flying with budget airlines increased to 27.8 million in 2024, and a growing share of all airline passengers use them

Retail turnover was 4.2 percent higher in April 2025 than in April 2024. Sales volume was up by 1.7 percent.

Censuses are the oldest official statistic produced by Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

The import value of Ukrainian goods was 2.3 billion euros in 2024, which means that imports have returned to the level last seen in 2021, before the war in that country began

Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 Clean water and sanitation. SDG 6 is about access to drinking water and sanitation, and sustainable water management. In the Netherlands, the main...

Manufacturing output was nearly 20 times higher in 2023 than it was 100 years ago.

In April 2025, the calendar-adjusted output of the Dutch manufacturing sector was 0.5 percent lower than it was in April 2024.

The number of people that reported having an allergy rose from 18 percent in 2014 to 21 percent in 2023.

Half of households that entered the housing market in 2023 began by renting a home in the private sector.

Nearly 22 percent of businesses have made changes to their business strategy, or plan to make changes, in response to tensions, disruptions or policy changes in overseas markets

Consumers were slightly less negative in June.

Retail turnover was 4.2 percent higher in April 2025 than in April 2024. Sales volume was up by 1.7 percent.

Labour productivity growth in the Netherlands has slowed more sharply in the Netherlands than in other high-income countries over the past decade, as a result of which the Netherlands has fallen in...

Two-thirds of entrepreneurs are dealing with shortage of staff.

People aged thirty are less likely to have settled down.

A total of 77 thousand men became fathers for the first time in 2024, at an average age of 32.9.

In 2022, the total volume of inbound and outbound transport of goods at Dutch seaports fell by 1.2 percent to 622 million tonnes, relative to the previous year.

In April 2025, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 0.5 percent year on year.

Adjusted for court days, 352 businesses (including sole proprietorships) were declared bankrupt in May. That is 8 more bankruptcies than in the same period a year earlier.

The resources required to enable consumption in the Netherlands totalled 561 megatonnes in 2022, which corresponds to 87 kilograms per person per day.

Last year, 1,849 people took their own lives. That means there were five suicides per day, on average.

Household spending was 0.2 percent higher in April 2025 than it was in April 2024, adjusted for price changes.