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Between 1977 and 2022, the share of women who were economically independent increased from 20 percent to 70 percent.

Employer births; Employer deaths; Persons employed; SIC 2008;

CBS launched a communication offensive to highlight the importance of the census. Leaflets were delivered to four million households, television and radio broadcasts informed the public about the...

CBS could rely on routine to conduct a new census. It retained the questions from the previous census, editing them only here and there.

This satellite describes the contribution of culture and media to the Dutch economy (GDP, employment, consumption etc.) for the years 2015, 2018, and 2022. In addition, the satellite describes the...

A presentation of the new edition of our publication 'The Caribbean Netherlands in numbers'. Our annual publication 'The Caribbean Netherlands in Numbers''is a collection of articles/factsheets about...

The Dutch motor vehicle industry generated a total of 42.5 thousand full-time jobs in the Dutch economy in 2022 due to exports.

A total of 370 thousand people aged 15 to 74 years were unemployed in July 2024.

The number of young people aged 15-26 in paid work increased by 34 thousand in Q4 2023 compared to the same quarter one year earlier.

A revision incorporates the latest insights from the various (new) statistics and information sources used for the national accounts. The revision means that a new (level) estimate of the national...

The questions concerning the population in 1930 were largely the same as in previous counts. Some new questions were added regarding the distribution of academic qualifications, as CBS researchers...

In 2022, there were 609 thousand young people (aged 15 to 34 years) in the Netherlands who had completed a technical education.

Once every ten years, there is a special day within CBS: the day when, after a long and concerted effort, the most recent census is finalised.

By far the biggest problem when conducting a census is keeping all the data confidential. The 1947 census resolved this issue by updating the forms people had to fill in.

By 1920, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) had become a large public sector institution. For comparison, when Henri Methorst was appointed Director in 1906, the organisation had five departments and...

There were an estimated 30.6 thousand homeless people in the Netherlands on 1 January 2023

Labour force, unemployment rate, labour participation Sex, age, level of education

The Netherlands in numbers answers questions about the Netherlands’ past and present in 34 infographics, text and figures.

The share of employees among refugees with Ukrainian nationality residing in the Netherlands has increased further this year.

Of all young people between the ages of 15 and 25 in paid employment, 21 percent reported regular or frequent work-related stress in 2021.

A better command of the Dutch language among migrants improves their chances of finding paid work. Nevertheless, relatively many migrants who speak little or no Dutch are working at a high...

Personal and equivalised income, purchasing power development Sex, age

Revenue collected from taxes and social contributions Types of taxes and social contributions

Number of stages, distance and time travelled per stage/person per day modes of travel, travel purposes, age and sex

Current transactions and balancing items of institutional sectors Sectors, resources and uses, balancing items