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Production and export of electricity at record levels
Energy companies and other producers generated a total of 132 billion kWh of electricity in 2025.
The Netherlands in Numbers 2025, key issues facing our society today
The sixth edition of the web publication The Netherlands in Numbers has been released today.
Avoided use of fossil energy and emission of CO2
Renewable energy; avoided use of fossil energy energy sources/techniques, energy application
Monitor of Well-being and the Sustainable Development Goals 2023
Summary of the Monitor of Well-being and the SDGs 2023 with an overview of trends, the position of the Netherlands in the EU27 and the most recent developments in well-being ‘here and now’, ‘later’...
Use of pesticides in agriculture down by over 20 percent since 2020
The agriculture sector used 3.9 million kilograms of crop protection products in 2024, a decrease of more than 22 percent since 2020
Monitor of Well-being
Well-being means quality of life in the here and now, but also the extent to which that quality of life comes at the expense of the well-being of future generations or people who live elsewhere in...
Water board finances from 1936
Realised figures on revenues, expenditures and debts of water boards. Water boards levies.
Higher incomes in the agriculture sector in 2024
The Dutch agriculture sector generated 5.1 percent more income in 2024 than it did in 2023
Electricity consumption of domestic transport nearly doubles
Electricity consumption attributable to domestic transport increased to 17 petajoules (PJ) in 2024
Today’s well-being increasingly comes at the expense of future generations
The Netherlands remains a prosperous country and a relatively cohesive society.
Environmental impact of the tourism sector
The purpose of this study is to analyse economic evolution in the tourism sector in relation to its impact on the environment for the 2015-2022 research period.
SDG 15 Life on land
Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15 Life on land. SDG 15 concerns protection, restoration and sustainable management of all forms of life on land. Nature, wildlife and healthy...
High quality of life today still comes at the expense of future generations
The Netherlands is a country where people are generally satisfied, trust one another and enjoy a high and increasing level of material well-being
Arable crop area up by 3 percent
As of 2023, the agricultural area devoted to arable crop farming has increased by 14.4 thousand to 549 thousand hectares.
CBS focuses on the challenges that we face as a society in 2026
One of the tasks of Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is to look at the major challenges that we face as a society.
Subjective well-being
What is well-being ‘here and now’? Subjective well-being reflects how satisfied people are with their life. It is an evaluative indicator that gives an indication of overall well-being at the...
585 additional organic farms since 2015
Relative to 2021, the total area under organic farming in the Netherlands this year has increased by 3.6 percent to slightly over 80 thousand hectares. This is 59.0 percent more than in 2015.
SDG 6 Clean water and sanitation
Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 Clean water and sanitation. SDG 6 is about access to drinking water and sanitation, and sustainable water management. In the Netherlands, the main...
International trade has tripled in past 30 years, even as growth has slowed
The international trade in goods stalled in 2023 and the first half of 2024, but over the past 30 years it has grown significantly with the exception of sharp falls during the credit crisis and the...
Vegetables; yield and cultivated area per kind of vegetable
Area and yield per vegetable Area, yield, kind of vegetable
Area used to grow greenhouse vegetables has increased in ten years
The area used to grow the four primary greenhouse vegetables, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and aubergines, was a total of 4.1 thousand hectares in 2023.
Water boards; tariffs levies
Tariffs water board levies Water system -, road levy -, wastewater treatment - and pollution levy
SDG 9.3 Knowledge and innovation
Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9.3 Industry, innovation and infrastructure: knowledge and innovation. The third part of SDG 9 focuses on public and private sector investment in...
Green Deal: CBS working with partners for sustainable development data
Across the world, there is an increasing need for information on climate change and energy transition, environmental quality and circularity, and nature and biodiversity.
Consumers in the Netherlands use 87 kilograms of raw materials per day
The resources required to enable consumption in the Netherlands totalled 561 megatonnes in 2022, which corresponds to 87 kilograms per person per day.