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The inflation rate was 0.9 percent in July 2014, i.e. the same as in June. For the third consecutive month, the average year-on-year increase in consumer prices was below 1 percent.

The Netherlands had a population of 16.3 million on 1 January 2005. In 2004 the population increased by just 34 thousand. In 2003 the increase was twice as high. Such a low growth rate has not been...

In August, the inflation rate rose to 1 percent. In July, the rate stood at 0.9 percent.

For the first time in ten years, the number of people in the Netherlands claiming a social benefit has decreased across the board.

Last year, the Dutch population aged 15 years and older faced 6.3 million offences, an increase by 0.4 million relative to the preceding year.

Just over 10 percent of the Dutch population reported that they had felt sombre or depressed in 2012, and nearly 6 percent were prescribed anti-depressants in 2011. Feelings of depression are much...

The Netherlands is one of the 19 member states of the European Union (EU) with a growing population. This is mainly due to migration, which is also the case in most other countries with population...

Dutch economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2007 was 4.5 percent relative to one year previously. The second economic growth estimate is 0.1 percentage points higher than the first dating back to...

In June 2015, prices of Dutch manufactured products were 5.4 percent down from June 2014. In May this year, prices were 4.9 percent below the level of twelve months previously. Prices of manufactured...

A total of 1.3 million Dutch residents hold more than one nationality, as the most recent survey conducted on 1 January 2014 shows. Since then, non-Dutch nationalities are no longer registered. Last...

The number of unfilled vacancies again saw a substantial drop in the second quarter of 2009.

In 2007, the number of income support benefits declined markedly for the third year running. At the end of December, 275 thousand benefits were received, 27 thousand fewer than one year previously.

The number of traffic deaths on Dutch roads was brought down again last year. In 2005, the traffic death toll was 817, a reduction by 64 compared to 2004.

In October 2015, output prices of products manufactured in the Netherlands were 8.7 percent down from October 2014. In September this year, prices were 9.1 percent below the level of twelve months...

After the trade barriers between the Russian Federation and the European Union became effective, the value of export of food products to Russia was reduced almost by half. Exports of machinery and...

The Dutch economy grew by 2.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006 compared with the same quarter in 2005. The growth was realised with one working day fewer.

The number of welfare benefits paid to people aged under 65 in the second quarter of 2006 was down by nearly 5 thousand.

An average of 441 thousand people (5.7 percent of the labour force) were unemployed Netherlands in the period December 2009–February 2010, as against 4.1 percent one year previously.

Electricity consumption in the Netherlands rose from just over 7 billion kWh in 1950 to 119 billion kWh in 2013, an average increase of 4.5 percent per year. Until 2008, electricity consumption only...

In the period February-April 2010, unemployment in the Netherlands averaged 459 thousand.

More than one and a half million people in the Netherlands provide intensive or long-term voluntary care; 1 in 7 carers - about 220 thousand people - feel burdened to some extent. Most voluntary...