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Electricity, production by energy source, import, export and consumption

Work has become the main source of income for asylum seekers who have been a resident in the Netherlands for a longer period of time.

Patent applicants and applications Technology field

Short Surveydescription Harmonised consumer price index (HICP) 2015=100

In January, the calendar-adjusted output of the Dutch manufacturing sector was 1.1 percent higher than it was in January 2025.

Production of electricity and heat, input of energy commodities Central/decentral production, energy commodities

Social protection expenditure, ESSPROS Functions, support in cash or in kind, means-testing

Retail turnover was 2.9 percent higher in March 2026, year on year.

Unemployment stood at 395 thousand in March 2025.

Vehicle kilometres of lorries and road tractors (Dutch and foreign vehicles) by territory, vehicle construction years, gross vehicle weight

Kilometres and average annual kilometres by Dutch and foreign lorries and road tractors, by load capacity and age of vehicle

Retail turnover was 1.3 percent higher in February 2026, year on year.

Agricultural census; crops, livestock, land use and corresponding number of holdings by general farm type and region

In February 2025, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 2.9 percent year on year.

The average price of an owner-occupied home (excluding newbuild homes) was 5.4 percent higher in February 2026, year on year.

In February 2025, the calendar-adjusted output of the Dutch manufacturing sector was 1 percent higher than it was in February 2024.

Over the past decade, the number of Russian-owned firms in the Netherlands has fallen – from 80 in 2014 to 25 in 2024.

In the fourth quarter of 2025, prices for new and existing owner-occupied homes rose by 6.2 percent compared with the same quarter in 2024.

Consumer goods and services in the Netherlands were 3.7 percent more expensive in March 2025 than one year previously.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, there were 38 percent more new-build transactions than in Q4 of 2023.

Adjusted for court days, 271 businesses (including sole proprietorships) were declared bankrupt in March. That is the lowest number in over a year and a half.

Export growth and Contribution to total export growth Export behavior

Households spent the same amount on goods and services in January, year on year.

Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in the Netherlands was just over 65 thousand euros in 2025. This puts the Netherlands in fourth place in the European Union (EU), the same as in 2024.

A total of 182 thousand pupils are now in their final year of secondary education.