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The economic picture was more negative in January than in December.

The population of the Netherlands grew by nearly 10 thousand in the first quarter of 2026.

New owner-occupied homes are bought primarily by high-income households. New and cheaper social housing is mainly let to people on low incomes.

The inflation rate stood at 1.2 percent in December.

Retail turnover was 3.4 percent higher in March 2025 than in March 2024. Sales volume was up by 1.0 percent.

In March 2025, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 3.2 percent year on year.

The economic picture was slightly more negative in November than it was in October, according to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer.

477 thousand young people received youth care in 2025.

The United States is the fifth largest export market for Dutch goods

Unemployment stood at 387 thousand in April 2025. The unemployment rate fell slightly from 3.9 in March to 3.8 in April.

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A total of 518 thousand people entered the housing market for the first time in 2024, compared with 560 thousand in 2023.

Dutch manufacturers were more negative in April than they were in March.

Over 332 million tonnes of cargo was transported by inland vessel over the Netherlands’ inland waterways in 2024

According to the flash estimate of inflation by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the inflation rate stands at 1.6 percent in November.

1 April marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first same-sex marriage in the Netherlands. Since then, over 36,000 same-sex couples have got married, just over half of which were female couples.

Last year, 1,758 people took their own lives. That means there were five suicides every day, on average.

Almost 333 million tonnes of cargo was transported by inland vessels over the Netherlands’ inland waterways in 2025. That was almost the same volume as in 2024.

Few statistical offices were as advanced as CBS. Only Denmark and Finland conducted their censuses in the same way, using registers. Unique for the Netherlands was that it used survey data to fill...

Workers in the healthcare sector and the accommodation and food services sector (hospitality) are the most likely to experience inappropriate or unwanted behaviour at work, such as unwanted sexual...

In 2025, 31 percent of the Dutch population were satisfied with police visibility in their neighbourhood, while 21 percent were dissatisfied.

A total of 393 thousand people unemployed in June. Unemployment decreased by an average of 5 thousand per month over the past three months.

The Netherlands consumed nearly 2,600 petajoules (PJ) of energy in 2025, 1 percent less than the previous year.

A total of 309 thousand migrants arrived in the Netherlands in 2025, 8 thousand fewer than in 2024.

In 2024, 4 percent of businesses dealt with at least one cyber incident resulting from an external attack.