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Consumers were slightly less negative in June.

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

The inflation rate stood at 1.6 percent in November.

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...

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

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.

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

According to the first estimate from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) based on the data currently available, gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.4 percent in Q4 2024 relative to the previous...

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.

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

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

In March 2025, the volume of investment in tangible fixed assets was up by 2.2 percent year on year.

Consumer confidence stood at -37 in May, just as in April.

On 1 January 2025, the population of the Caribbean Netherlands stood at nearly 32 thousand.

Dutch firms imported over 93 billion euros worth of goods and services from the United States in 2023.

The number of plug-in cars in the Netherlands surpassed 1 million for the first time in the first quarter of 2025

Output prices for Dutch-manufactured products were 1 percent lower on average in April 2025 relative to one year previously.

Five percent of young adults aged between 18 and 25 said they had vaped and smoked occasionally in 2024.

Producer confidence declined further in May.

Adjusted for court days, 331 businesses (including sole proprietorships) were declared bankrupt in April. That is 31 fewer bankruptcies than in the same period a year earlier, or a decrease of 9...

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Few statistical offices were as advanced as CBS. Only Denmark and Finland conducted their censuses in the same way, using registers. Unique for the Netherlands was that it used survey data to fill...