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In 2025, the Netherlands obtained 22.7 percent of its gross final energy consumption from renewable sources, such as wind, solar and biomass, including plant and animal residues.

Adjusted for court session days, 287 businesses (including sole proprietorships) were declared bankrupt in May 2026. That was 66 fewer than in the same month in 2025.

Output prices of Dutch-manufactured products were on average 4.2 percent lower in November relative to one year previously.

In Q2 2023, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 5 percent lower than in Q2 2022. This was mainly due to lower emissions from the electricity sector.

In April 2026, the import value of goods from the Gulf states was 67 percent lower than in March.

In the third quarter of 2023, 10.5 thousand people submitted a first application for asylum in the Netherlands.

In April 2025, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 4.4 percent, year on year.

In 2025, 92 percent of men with an employment contract took paternity leave after their baby was born.

In July, the volume of investments in tangible fixed assets was up by 3.3 percent year on year.

According to current projections by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the life expectancy of 65-year-olds will stand at 20.89 years in 2029.

Households living in social housing spent an average of 24.6 percent of their income on housing costs in 2024.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were over 5 percent lower in Q1 2026 than in Q1 2025.

Consumers spent 6.7 percent less in March 2020 than one year previously. This is the sharpest contraction in domestic household consumption CBS has ever recorded.

In the 2021/’22 academic year, universities and universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands had altogether 443,000 female students attending against 393 thousand male students.

Four out of 10 parents of children under the age of 18 would prefer to divide work and care tasks equally.

The volume of investments in tangible fixed assets was 5.0 percent larger year on year.

In 2022, 90 percent of the Dutch population aged 16 or older said they used e-Government, through government websites or those of public institutions.

Almost 333 million tonnes of cargo was transported by inland vessels over the Netherlands’ inland waterways in 2025. That was almost the same volume as in 2024.

CBS-report on the integration of different origin groups in the Dutch society on various themes: population, housing, education, labour market, social security, income, crime, health, social...

In Q4 2020, gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 0.1 percent relative to the previous quarter. In 2020, the economy shrank by 3.8 percent year-on-year.

According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 0.2 percent in Q2 2023 relative to Q1 2023.

In August 2023, prices of Dutch-manufactured products were down by an average of 5.1 percent year on year.

Dutch consumers have never been gloomier than this month.

In 2021, Bonaire’s economy grew by almost 11.7 percent after the substantial contraction of 8.4 percent in 2020.

In February 2025, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 1.6 percent, year on year.