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The volume of exports of goods was 2.0 percent up in April 2014 from April 2013. The growth was slightly more substantial than in the preceding months, when the relatively mild weather conditions...

After continuous growth over the past century, the potential labour force is about to decline. On 1 January 2007, there were 10 million Dutch residents in the 20–65 age bracket.

In more than half of Dutch families, parenting tasks are shared equally between the father and the mother. However, when only one of the parents takes on these tasks it is usually the mother, even if...

There were 7.8 million paid jobs in the Netherlands in the fourth quarter of 2007. This is an increase by 170 thousand relative to one year previously.

The volume of goods imports into the Netherlands was 7 percent higher in September 2005 than in September 2004. The volume of exports was 5 percent higher than twelve months previously.

Residential property rents were raised by an average of 4.4 percent in July 2014. High-income tenants living in dwellings intended to provide affordable housing for low-income households faced the...

Spending on health care and welfare in the Netherlands amounted to 61.5 billion euro in 2005. This is 2.8 percent more than in 2004.

The savings of private individuals reached almost 200 billion euro in 2004. People put almost 11 billion euro more into their savings accounts than they took out. Outstanding debt on consumer credit...

240 thousand people had not paid for their medical insurance at the end of 2007, 26 percent more than at the end of 2006.

2019 will be the first year in which half the Dutch adult population will be older than 50 years. In many Dutch municipalities more than half of the population are already over 50.

The number of unfilled vacancies has stabilised in the third quarter of 2009.

At the start of Q3, business confidence has increased relative to one quarter previously. After a dip in Q2 2013, business confidence reached the highest level since Q3 2011.

In September 2015, output prices of products manufactured in the Netherlands were 9.1 percent down from September 2014. In August this year, prices were 8.1 percent below the level of twelve months...

The sharp decline in the number of unfilled vacancies continued into the first quarter of 2009.

The average annual temperature in De Bilt rose by 1.7 °C in the period 1952-2017.

The fall in unemployment among people with a non-western foreign background in the Netherlands quickened in 2007.

According to the most recent figures, the costs of health care and welfare amounted to 87.6 billion euro in 2010, a 3.6 percent increase relative to 2009. Over the period 2004-2008, the costs of care...

In 2003, 28 percent of workers in the Netherlands had to work under pressure on a regular basis. This percentage has been decreasing since 1999, for both part-time and full-time workers. The...

In the second quarter of 2007, the number of jobs for employees had grown by 206 thousand relative to the same quarter last year.

In the first six months of 2004 emigrants from the Netherlands outnumbered immigrants by 13 thousand, the largest net emigration since the 1950s. The main cause for the emigration surplus is a...