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Dutch households took out nearly 9.7 billion euro in consumer credit in 2009, i.e. 1.2 billion down on 2008 and the lowest level of the past decade.

In September 2009, the Dutch inflation rate stood at 0.4 percent, an increase by 0.1 percentage points compared to August.

Dutch households were as reluctant to spend money in May 2005 as they were in the previous months. The volume of domestic consumption was down 0.7percent on May 2004. The decrease was fully...

The Dutch long-term interest rate, based on the return of the most recent ten-year public loan, averaged 1.7 percent in January 2013. In December 2012, the interest rate reached its lowest level in...

Retail sales in the second quarter of 2011 were 1.4 percent up on the second quarter of 2010.

Prices of existing owner-occupied houses were on average 2.9 percent lower in September 2011 than in September 2010.

According to the latest figures 9,531 bankruptcies were filed last year, approximately as many as in 2010.

In February 2005 the value of Dutch international commodity trade was again higher than in February 2004. Dutch exports reached 21.6 billion euro, 11 percent more than in February 2004. The imports,...

According to the most recent figures, unemployment – after adjustment for seasonal variation.

Consumer confidence fell slightly in November 2006 relative to October, but optimists still outnumber pessimists.

Retail turnover was around the same level in the second quarter of 2010 as in the same period last year. This brings the period of decreasing retail turnover to an end. In the five preceding quarters...

Turnover volume in the sector hotels and restaurants shrank by 6.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 relative to the same quarter of 2007.

Manufacturers expect a 3 percent growth of investments this year, relative to 2005. For the second year running, investments are expected to grow in 2006.

Most people on Bonaire speak Papiamento. On St Eustatius and Saba most people have English as first language. Only a small number of people have Dutch as a first language.

The decrease in house prices continued unabated in August 2009, as prices of existing houses sold in that month were 5.6 percent lower on average than twelve months previously.

The value of imported goods increased by 7 percent in October 2004, reaching a value of 20.3 billion euro. The value of exports was 8 percent higher than in October 2003, reaching 23.2 billion euro.