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According to provisional figures published by Statistics Netherlands, the 2005 economic growth rate in the provinces of Flevoland and Utrecht was considerably higher than in the rest of the country.

Some 2.4 million babies were born in the Netherlands in the period 1946–1955. Although births also peaked in other countries in western Europe after the war, until the mid 1950s the Dutch birth rate...

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Generation of electricity by wind turbines grew by nearly 20 percent last year. According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS) over half of total renewable electricity in 2015 was generated by wind...

There were 172 thousand more employees in the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2008 than in the same quarter last year. This 2.2 percent increase is high in a historical perspective, but still...

Africa accounts for 85 percent of imported roses. Kenya and Ethiopia are the main suppliers, chiefly because Dutch rose growers have shifted their activities to these countries. The import price of...

The number of people setting up their own business in the Netherlands has gradually risen since the 1990s, but the proportion of business owners was still lagging behind the EU 15 average in 2006....

The increase in collectively negotiated wages (CAO) was 2.0 percent in 2007. The wage increase is the same as in 2006, although there is a difference.

There is hardly any difference between what Dutch people in urban and rural areas define as urgent national problems.

The average age in the employed labour force has risen further to 41.4 years in 2012, i.e. more than five years higher than in 1990. Employees are on average younger than self-employed, but they age...

In 2013, the police registered 640 thousand thefts, i.e. 38 per thousand residents.

The Netherlands' imports of avocados reached a record high in 2016 at 433 milion euros.

In holiday year 2016, the number of holidays spent in Paris by Dutch tourists was at its lowest level in ten years.

Dutch travel expenditure in UK 16 percent down

Last year 4.8 percent in the Dutch population reported to have diabetes.

The Dutch economic growth in the first quarter of 2010 at 0.1 percent compared with the same quarter last year.

The Dutch inflation rate according to the consumer price index (CPI) was 0.8 percent in August, versus 1.0 percent in July. The decline was due mainly to the price developments in clothing and petrol.

Dutch enterprises earned over 45 bn euros in exports to Germany, good for 6.7 percent of GDP.

The number of beer breweries in the Netherlands has more than quadrupled.

95 percent of inhabitants holds Dutch citizenship. In 2015, 22 thousand residents were naturalised to Dutch citizens.

Agro-sector exports were valued at over 45 billion euros in 2014, earning almost 29 bn euros in revenues.