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fewer apprenticeships for mbo students in 2013
As a result of the economic situation in the Netherlands nearly 18 thousand fewer apprenticeship places were available in 2013 than in 2012 for students in the apprenticeship-based track (bbl) of...
More people defaulting on health insurance payments
At the end of 2008, 280 thousand people in the Netherlands were defaulting on the payment of their health insurance premiums.
More and more people take medicines
In 2004 the number of people in the Netherlands taking prescribed or unprescribed medicines increased further. Contraceptive pill use among women continued to decline. People had fewer GP contacts...
year-on-year growth manufacturing output continues
According to Statistics Netherlands, the average daily output generated by Dutch manufacturing industry was 2.0 percent up in May 2015 from the same month last year. In April, output was 0.7 percent...
Retail turnover nearly half a percent up in June
The Dutch retail sector recorded 0.4 percent year-on-year turnover growth in June.
Limburg is the only province where most people still identify as religious
The share of people who say they belong to a religion (or other life stance) has fallen slightly once again, following a previous small increase.
Manufacturing turnover higher, output stable
In June 2005 turnover of Dutch manufacturing industry was higher than one year ago. Compared to June last year, turnover increased 5 percent, mainly due to higher selling prices.
Market value
The value of a security on the stock exchange.
Smoking and alcohol consumption down since 2014, obesity unchanged
In 2024, 18 percent of adults smoked, 6 percent consumed alcohol excessively, and 50 percent were overweight.
Inflation lower on Bonaire, higher on St. Eustatius and Saba
Consumer goods and services on Bonaire were 2.5 percent more expensive in Q2 2024 than one year previously.
Higher turnover sector hotels and restaurants
The most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands show that turnover generated by the sector hotels and restaurants grew by 1.9 percent in the third quarter of 2013 relative to the same...
Slowdown population growth in 2012
Nearly 16.8 million people were living in the Netherlands on 1 January 2013, an increase by 48 thousand relative to one year previously. On balance, 13 thousand people from abroad settled in the...
Number of video shops reduced by half over the past decade
The number of video shops was reduced by half over the period 1998–2008.
Asylum requests down by nearly a quarter on Q3 2023
A total of 8.1 thousand people submitted a first-time asylum application in the Netherlands in the third quarter of 2024.
Syrian immigrants often live in a family setting
A total of 29 thousand Syrians registered as residents of a Dutch municipality in 2014 and 2015. Syrian immigrants are young compared to other recent immigrants in the Netherlands and they often live...
Dutch consumers slightly less negative in June
Consumers were slightly less negative in June.
Unemployment slightly further down
In October 2010, seasonally adjusted unemployment in the Netherlands stood at 410 thousand, a decline by 2 thousand relative to September. Unemployment has dropped for the eigth month running.
Internationalisation Monitor 2025, second edition
Globalisation, trade, productivity and employment. Figures and analyses on how the Netherlands benefits from the world. Internationalisation Monitor 2025.
Early estimates of energy balances
This report describes how Statistics Netherlands can collect data for the, early, Eurostat mini questionnaires on energy and how it is possible to derive from these questionnaires an energy balance...