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472 thousand people were unemployed in the Netherlands in the period January-March 2010.

The number of emigrants is continually growing. In the first nine months of 2006, nearly 100 thousand people left the Netherlands to settle elsewhere.

An average of 430 thousand persons were unemployed in the period November 2009-January 2010, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force.

Last year, 650 people died in traffic accidents in the Netherlands, i.e. 11 fewer than in 2011. The number of traffic fatalities has dropped by 19.9 percent relative to 2006. The traffic death toll...

In the first nine months of 2009 there were fewer marriages than the year before. In 2009 as a whole there will be about 72 thousand marriages, 3.5 thousand less than in 2008. This decrease has to do...

Last year, 791 people were killed on Dutch roads.

In the first quarter of 2004 the total assets of pension funds and insurance companies rose by 46 billion euro to 829 billion euro. On balance the value of shares rose by more than 24 billion euro,...

The volume of domestic consumption was 0.7 percent smaller in February 2004 than in February 2003. This was the twelfth month in a row that consumption expenditure was lower than twelve months...

In 2006, one in forty people in the Netherlands lived in areas where the concentration of fine particles in the air was too high. High concentrations of fine particles can damage people’s health.

With an increase of just under 8 thousand, the population growth in the first six months of 2005 reached a historically low level. In the same period 54 thousand persons left the Netherlands.

The Dutch population is estimated to grow by 86 thousand in 2009. The increase exceeds last year’s population growth by 5.5 thousand.

Immigration increased over the past quarter, in particular immigrants from the new EU member states Bulgaria and Romania came to the Netherlands.

These are a few of the main conclusions of the annual education report Jaarboek onderwijs in cijfers 2012.

In the second quarter of this year, the number of jobs of employees declined by 72 thousand relative to the second quarter of 2008.

The national debt amounted to nearly 254 billion euro by the end of last year, 2 billion euro down on the end of 2006.

The production of potatoes was substantially lower last year than in 2002. The total potato crop was 6.5 billion kilos in 2003, one eighth lower than in 2002. Arable farmers lifted less than 41...

In the first six months of 2007, the number of people living in the Netherlands grew by nearly 15 thousand.

335 thousand people in the Netherlands were claiming income support at the end of September 2004. This is 3 thousand fewer than at the end of the previous quarter. The number started to fall in the...

People can use the Happiness Meter to calculate their score and compare it with the score of the average Dutch person

The Dutch economy saw robust growth in the first quarter of 2006. The Dutch gross domestic product (GDP) was up by 2.9 percent on the year before.