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In September 2024, the total volume of goods exported (adjusted for the number of working days) was up by 3.0 percent year on year.

Business owners anticipate hiring more staff and investing more in 2025, but these expectations are less positive than they were for 2024.

By 2025, nearly 90 percent of companies in the Netherlands will have achieved the basic level of digital intensity – a measure of their level of digitalisation

Business and ICT services; turnover, 2015=100, change Naar bedrijfsactiviteit (SBI 2008)

More people are handing in old tablets and laptops for recycling in 2024 than in 2022

A total of 3.3 billion euros in wages went from the Netherlands to other countries in the second quarter of 2024, a rise of 73 percent since the same period in 2014.

Rare earth elements are key components in many products that are frequently imported into the Netherlands, such as computers, telephone handsets and electric vehicles

The economic picture was less negative in December than in November.

Cao wages, contractual wage costs and working hours, Index fig. 2010=100 monthly, SIC 2008

In 2025, 23 percent of businesses in the Netherlands indicated that they deploy ICT solutions to make their use of materials more sustainable.

In September 2024, the calendar-adjusted output of the Dutch manufacturing sector was 0.5 percent lower than it was in September 2023,.

Twenty percent of young people aged 15 to 26 who were not in education in Q2 2024 had no basic qualification from secondary education.

For the first time in 2023, business drivers of passenger cars drove more kilometres in electrically powered vehicles than they did in diesel-powered vehicles (including diesel hybrids)

Output prices for Dutch-manufactured products were 2.0 percent lower on average in September 2024 relative to one year previously.

The population of the Netherlands grew by 85.3 thousand in the first three quarters of 2024.

Dutch manufacturers were more negative in October than they were in September.

According to the first quarterly estimate from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) based on the data currently available, in Q1 2024 gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 0.1 percent relative to the...

The import value of goods from the United States was more than 12 percent higher in 2023 than it was in 2022.

The percentage of people who were the victims of traditional forms of crime (such as burglary, theft, vandalism or violent crime) remained unchanged in 2025 at 20 percent.

The economic picture was less negative in November than in October.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has recently appointed its first Chief Data Officer.

Economic growth of 1 percent in Q2 2024 According to the first estimate from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) based on the data currently available, gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.0 percent...

Retail turnover was 2.6 percent higher in September 2024 than in September 2023. Sales volume was up by 1.2 percent.

Productivity: labour, capital, multi-factor productivity Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 2008)

Prices of imported and exported goods were 3.8 percent lower (for exports) and 5.5 percent lower (for imports) in the first half of 2024 than in the same period of 2023