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The amount of goods carried by Dutch hauliers in 2012 was substantially down from 2005. Eastern European countries (Poland in particular) are becoming increasingly important, but Dutch hauliers still...

In school year 2008/’09, the number of students in senior secondary vocational education (mbo) who successfully completed courses in nursing and care disciplines, and courses training for...

Advice and encouragement from a health care provider is one of the main motivating factors to stop smoking.

Statistics Netherlands announced today that older employees are generally believed to be more stress resistant, while younger employees appear to be more versed in adopting new technologies. Opinions...

In the third quarter of 2006 there were 110 thousand more jobs for employees in the Netherlands than in the same quarter last year.

The number of minimum wage jobs has risen marginally over the period 2008-2012. The increase mainly occurred among 20 to 30-year-olds.

Euthanasia should under certain circumstances be allowed, according to 87 percent of the adult population in the Netherlands.

Last year, for the first time ever, more pears than apples were harvested, i.e. 327 million kg of pears, versus 314 million kg of apples.

The labour participation rate for Dutch women is the highest in the European Union (EU).

Goods imports from Japan amounted to 8.4 billion euros in 2013. The Netherlands is mainly a transit country for Japanese products to Europe. Three-quarters of the imported goods were re-exported...

Saba's population grew by 6 percent between 2011 and 2015 to 1.9 thousand residents.

The inflation rate climbed to 1.1 percent in October.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.8 percent higher in January than in the same month last year. In December, prices of consumer goods and services were up by 2.7 percent year-on-year.

In 2007, the number of income support benefits declined markedly for the third year running. At the end of December, 275 thousand benefits were received, 27 thousand fewer than one year previously.

This publication contains the results of Eurostat’s International Sourcing Survey for Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The figures refer to 2007.

Ukraine is a very small trading partner for the European Union (EU)

Although air traffic increased in the Caribbean Netherlands, the volume of passengers dropped by over 6 percent in 2017.

Dutch quinoa imports has tripled in the past four years, to approximately 5.5 million kg in 2016.

In relative terms, Limburg is the most internationally-oriented province of the Netherlands.

CO2 emissions in the Netherlands grow faster than the country’s economy. In the third quarter of 2015, CO2 emissions were 6.8 percent up from one year previously.