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Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9.1 Industry, innovation and infrastructure: Infrastructure and mobility. The first part of SDG 9 addresses the provisions in place to transport...

Distances to and number of facilities: healthcare, retail, leisure, schools and culture per municipality and other regional classifications

Although material well-being levels are relatively low, most inhabitants of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba are satisfied with their lives.

Recent years have seen a succession of global crises, each of which has led to temporary disruptions to trade around the world: Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, the energy crisis and the recent...

Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10.1 Reduced inequalities: social cohesion and inequality. The first part of SDG 10 addresses social cohesion, inclusiveness and equality. These are...

In 2024, 449 million kilograms of nitrogen compounds were emitted in livestock manure, a fall of 3 percent compared with the previous year.

Climate change, chemical pollution, acidification of the oceans - these are all examples of what happens when we go beyond the limits of what our planet can support: planetary boundaries.

Where do the sea containers arriving in the port of Rotterdam come from? What products do they contain? By what means of transport are they then transported to their next destination (sea vessel,...

At the request of the Dutch House of Representatives, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) publishes the Monitor of Well-being and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) annually on Accountability Day in...

Natural capital relates to services that the natural environment provides to the economy, such as raw materials and recreation. Relevant aspects of this are the preconditions for these services to...

This year, the International Statistical Institute (ISI) will host the 65th World Statistics Congress in The Hague from 5 to 9 October.

In addition to mapping natural capital on land, Statistics Netherlands also works on measuring and understanding natural capital in the marine environment. Coastal and marine ecosystems are vital for...

In 2021, most types of agricultural emissions were lower than in 1995, in spite of higher agricultural output. Reduction of greenhouse gas and nitrogen emissions has stagnated in recent years.

The total value of ecosystem services in 2022 was over 15 billion euros, 50 percent more than it was in 2013.

25 September 2023 is SDG Action Day.

This report presents an examination of available sales figures for biocides in countries neighbouring the Netherlands and of the conditions a national sales register would have to meet in the...

This study proposes a GreenTransition-module for business tendency surveys. It describes managers’ assessments, expectations, plans and constraints about the green transition of their enterprise.

The Netherlands in numbers answers questions about the Netherlands’ past and present in 35 infographics, text and figures.

Trees and plants filter harmful particulate matter from the air

Birth, death, life expectancy, health and disease, use of health care services, education and labour market, costs of care, care providers

Statistics Netherlands publishes revised figures for the statistics on expenditures on health and social care for 2021-2023. Important changes include a new breakdown by type of care, improved scope,...

Distances to and number of facilities: healthcare, retail, leisure, schools and culture per municipality, district and neighbourhood

Quality of life in the Netherlands today, well-being ‘here and now’, is high. However it not just as high for everybody in the country; well-being of young adults is lower than for the rest of the...

Statistics Netherlands publishes revised figures for the statistics on expenditures on health and social care for 2021-2023. Important changes include a new breakdown by type of care, improved scope,...

Natural capital encompasses the natural resources that society and the economy rely on, such as soil, water, air, and the ecosystems associated with their plants and animals.