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The most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands show that unemployment increased by 10 thousand in January 2014 to reach 678 thousand, i.e. 8.6 percent in the labour force. The figures are...

According to figures released by Statistics Netherlands today, Dutch consumer spending on goods and services was 2.4 percent up in February 2015 from the same month last year, i.e. the most...

Retail turnover was 3.8 percent higher in January 2025 than it was in January 2024. Sales volume was up by 2.0 percent.

The vacancy indicator provides a quick indication of the current trend in vacancies. The indicator deteriorated further in November.

After adjustment for seasonal effects, 115 thousand jobs were vacant at the end of June 2010, a thousand more than at the end of March. The public sector accounted for the modest increase; the number...

The population of the Netherlands will continue to grow over the next five decades, to 20.6 million inhabitants in 2070.

In 2008, the value of sweets exports was nearly twice as high as its imports value. Chocolate is by far the most popular type of sweets.

As of 30 September 2019, there were 10 thousand detainees in Dutch prisons, 400 more than in 2018 and 1,100 more than in 2016.

By the end of 2008, the pension entitlement of people in the Netherlands under the age of 65 averaged 8,100 euro. The claim consists of an old-age (AOW) part (4,600 euro) and a work-related part...

As of March 2020, a package of emergency measures has been in place in the Caribbean Netherlands to tackle the economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis.

In the last decade the population of Bonaire has grown by almost 50 percent. In the preceding thirty years, the increase of 10 percent per decade was much smaller. The population growth is mainly the...

People in the Netherlands aged 65 or older ate the most healthily in 2023.

An asylum seeker, residence permit holder or invited refugee who is registered in a municipal population register.

The total volume of goods exports grew by 3.0 percent percent in July relative to July 2017.

In the first half of 2013, some 13 million people aged 12 years and older in the Netherlands were using the internet on a regular basis. This is the equivalent of more than 90 percent of this age...

The total volume of goods exports grew by 0.6 percent in November relative to November 2017.

Methods used for the calculation of the Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios 2018-2020

In 2020, the consumption of energy from biomass resources such as biogas, biopetrol, the green part of household waste or wood products rose by 10 percent on the previous year, reaching a total of...

To provide figures on persons to whom medicines are dispensed that are reimbursed under the statutory basic medical insurance, according to characteristics of persons to whom the medicines have been...

In July 2009, Dutch providers of business services were still pessimistic. On balance, 25 percent of them expect to generate a lower turnover in the next three months.

New motorcycle sales have declined in recent years and half of new motorcycles are sold to people over the age of 40. One in eight motorcycles were owned by persons over the age of 60 last year.