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The projected number of over-65s will exceed 3.8 million in 2025. If no action is taken, the number of people entitled to the state old age pension (AOW) in the Netherlands would grow by 1.1 million...

Producer confidence in Dutch manufacturing industry deteriorated further and equalled -3.7 in July. In June it was still at -1.7.

The combined security holdings of pension funds and insurance companies rose by nearly 20 percent in 2005.

Retail turnover was 1.2 percent up in February 2015 from the same month last year. The volume of sales continues to grow, by 3 percent in February. Retail prices fell by 1.8 percent. Turnover and...

The real disposable income of Dutch households rose by nearly 4 percent in 2007, the highest growth since 2001.

Unemployment was 346 thousand on average in the second quarter of 2007. This is the equivalent of 4.6 percent of the labour force.

If the trend observed in the past three decades with respect to mortality and health is to continue, the age until which people in the Netherlands are free from physical limitations in mobility,...

The population in the Netherlands has grown less rapidly over the past six months than in the same period last year.

The overall government debt has risen dramatically in 2008 by 87.4 billion euro. By the end of last year, goverment debt amounted to 346.2 billion euro, i.e. 58.2 percent of the gross domestic...

Producers’ confidence in the manufacturing industry is 2.6 in December 2005. This means that manufacturing companies were almost just as positive as in November.

The average daily output generated by Dutch manufacturing industry was 0.6 percent higher in November 2014 than in November 2013.

The Dutch provinces realised economic growth in 2010 after the 2009 slump.

the number of welfare benefits claims on 30 June 2004 was 339 thousand, the same as in March. It is the first time in 18 months that there was no increase in the number of welfare benefits claims.

Household spending on goods and services was approximately the same in June 2014 as in June 2013. In April and May, household spending was also at the same level as one year previously.

In the second quarter of 2015, hotels, restaurants, snack bars and pubs saw their turnover rise by 2 percent on the previous quarter, the fastest increase in 4.5 years.

The number of income support benefits paid to people younger than 65 years has risen for the third quarter in a row.

Employees deposited 1.1 billion euro in company savings schemes accounts in 2006. This is 0.3 billion euro less than in 2005.

In the first quarter of 2011, the number of jobs of employees grew by 34 thousand relative to the first quarter of 2010.

Last year, 2.2 thousand girls under the age of 20 gave birth, i.e. less than 1.5 percent of all births registered in the Netherlands. The number of teenage births has never been this low. Teenage...

According to the most recent figures, unemployment adjusted for seasonal variation increased further in August 2012 by 4 thousand to reach 514 thousand.

Last year, 661 people died in road accidents in the Netherlands, i.e. a 3.3 percent increase from 2010 with 640 fatal accidents. The death toll was particularly high among older cyclists.

Seasonally adjusted unemployment averaged 394 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2006, a reduction by 11 thousand relative to the period September-November 2006.