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Output prices for Dutch-manufactured products were 0.1 percent lower on average in November 2024 relative to one year previously.

The mood among consumers is more negative in December than in the previous month.

A total of 173.0 thousand people died in the Netherlands in 2025: 1.2 thousand more than in 2024.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports in a flash estimate that the CPI-measured inflation rate was 3.0 percent in August.

The Dutch agriculture sector generated 5.1 percent more income in 2024 than it did in 2023

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According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.0 percent in Q2 2024 relative to Q1 2024.

The population of the Netherlands will continue to increase in the years to come, but less rapidly than in recent years.

A total of 759 people were killed in road traffic accidents in 2025, 84 more than the previous year.

Existing owner-occupied dwellings were 11.9 percent more expensive in November 2024 than one year previously, on average.

In October 2024, the investment volume for tangible fixed assets was up by 5.2 percent year on year.

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.

In 2023, 10 percent of LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bi-plus, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual) people were victims of violence, compared to 6 percent among the rest of the Dutch population.

Since 1990, the Living Planet Index for the Netherlands has increased by an average of 13 percent.

Real household disposable income grew by 2.7 percent in 2025, year on year.

The average price of an owner-occupied home (excluding newbuild homes) was 5.4 percent higher in February 2026, year on year.

In November 2024, there were 372 thousand unemployed persons in the Netherlands, the same as the last three months, and 3.7 percent of the labour force.

Goods exports from the Netherlands to Russia fell sharply following the tightening of sanctions by the European Union in 2022.

Dutch holidaymakers, day trippers and business travellers spent around 8.7 billion euros on goods and services in other countries in the third quarter of 2024.

In 2023, 76 percent of people aged 15 or older reported that their household had donated to charity in the previous twelve months

The Dutch economy grew by 1.8 percent in 2025.

Gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.1 percent in Q1 2026 relative to the previous quarter.

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.

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