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In early 2024, there were nearly 10 thousand same-sex couples with at least one child living with them.

In 1960, CBS was growing rapidly and it struggled with staff shortages. The large building on Oostduinlaan had become too crowded: CBS itself had expanded significantly, and staff from other...

In 2025 there were 100 casess of drowning in the Netherlands involving residents of the Netherlands

According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.8 percent in Q3 2024 relative to Q2 2024.

Realised figures on revenues, expenditures and debts of municipalities. Municipal levies.

Consumer goods and services in the Netherlands were 3.5 percent more expensive in May 2026 than they were in May 2025.

The Dutch economy grew by 1.8 percent in 2025.

Output; Gross value added; Labour input Economic activity (SIC2008); Region; Periods

At the start of 2026, there were over 2 million fully electric, hybrid or plug-in hybrid vehicles in the Netherlands. That was nearly 6 percent more than in 2025.

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

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

Consumer goods and services in the Netherlands were 3.8 percent more expensive in February 2025 than one year previously.

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

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.

Household spending was 1.2 percent higher in January 2025 than it was in January 2024, adjusted for price changes.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were over 5 percent lower in Q1 2026 than in Q1 2025.

Realised figures on revenues, expenditures and debts of provinces. Provincial levies

At the start of 2025, 5.7 million adults in the Netherlands were single

Consumer goods and services in the Netherlands were 3.2 percent more expensive in July 2026, year on year.

Between 2015 and 2022, the tourism sector contributed an average of 4 percent to the value added of the Dutch economy.

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

The transport sector has seen a significant slowdown in improvements in labour productivity over the past ten years, to the extent that it has actually declined.

In 2025, the Netherlands overtook Germany as the world’s leading exporter of cocoa products, such as chocolate, cocoa mass, cocoa butter and cocoa powder.

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.