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The Dutch agriculture sector generated 5.1 percent more income in 2024 than it did in 2023

In 2022/'23, 49 percent of pupils whose parents were born in another country (second-generation migrants) were advised to follow the senior general secondary education (HAVO) or pre-university (VWO)...

Ever more companies are taking steps to ensure that their customers and employees can log into their IT systems, websites or apps securely.

Unemployment stood at 385 thousand in May 2025.

Motor vehicles and motorcycles trade. Turnover: index 2015 = 100, change. By activity (SIC 2008).

In August 2023, Dutch consumers are marginally more negative than they were in the previous month .

Seasonally adjusted turnover in the accommodation and food services sector rose by 0.3 percent in Q3 2023 relative to Q2 2023.

Consumers were slightly less negative in June.

In July 2024, existing owner-occupied dwellings were 10.6 percent more expensive, on average, than one year previously.

Between January and July 2023, the Netherlands imported almost 70 billion euros in goods from China. That is nearly 5 billion euros less than in the same period last year.

In October 2024, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 1.7 percent year on year.

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

In 2023, 76 percent of people aged 15 or older reported that their household had donated to charity in the previous twelve months

The Dutch retail sector recorded 4.1 percent year-on-year turnover growth. The volume of sales decreased by 7 percent.

The inflation rate stood at 3.7 percent in July.

Tthe volume of investments in tangible fixed assets was up by 6.3 percent year on year.

Tthe volume of investments in tangible fixed assets was down by 1.6 percent year on year.

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

In 2023, 10 percent of LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bi-plus, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual) people were victims of violence, compared to 6 percent among the rest of the Dutch population.

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

A total of 39.3 million tonnes of goods were transported by rail in the Netherlands in 2023.

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

Quality of life in the Netherlands today, well-being ‘here and now’, is high. However it not just as high for everybody in the country; well-being of young adults is lower than for the rest of the...

The Netherlands imported technological products for use in the energy transition worth a total of 16.6 billion euros in 2023, which was 13 percent more than in 2022.

According to the first quarterly estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) on the basis of currently available data, in Q2 2022 gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.6 percent relative to...