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Consumer goods and services on Bonaire were 2.5 percent more expensive in Q2 2024 than one year previously.

Recent data on Sustainable Development Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 Responsible consumption and production. SDG 12 concerns reducing waste, food waste and pollution, and using materials more...

Output prices for Dutch-manufactured products were 1.2 percent lower on average in October 2024 relative to one year previously.

The number of dairy cows in the Netherlands fell by 1.9 percent to 1.54 million in 2024, compared to 2023.

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.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 3 percent higher in August than in the same month last year.

More than 1.7 million people aged 16 years or older were affected by sexually transgressive behaviour in 2024.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports in a flash estimate that the CPI-measured inflation rate was 4.6 percent in July.

Eight percent of men aged 15 to 64 not in education were neither in paid employment, nor seeking work, nor immediately available for work in 2023.

Existing owner-occupied dwellings were 11.5 percent more expensive in October 2024 than one year previously, on average.

More businesses anticipate an increase in investment in innovation and R&D in 2025 than a decrease.

Adjusted for the number of court session days, there were 41 fewer bankruptcies in October 2024 than in September.

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

At the start of Q3 2023, entrepreneurial confidence stood at -8.3. It was at virtually the same position three months previously (according to a new calculation method)

Of the adult population of the Netherlands, 96.6 percent will be eligible to vote in the forthcoming municipal elections

In 2025, an average of 610 thousand jobs were paid at hourly wages that differed by less than 5 percent from the minimum hourly wage.

There were 407 thousand unemployed persons in the Netherlands in March.

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

There were 416 thousand unemployed persons in February. Unemployment has risen by an average of three thousand per month over the past three months.

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

A total of 21.6 million air passengers passed through the Netherlands’ five major airports in the third quarter of 2024, up by 4 percent on Q3 2023.

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.

Household spending was 2.6 percent higher in September 2024 than in September 2023, adjusted for price changes. Households spent both more on services and goods.

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

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