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The Netherlands is the largest importer of live insects in the EU with an import value of 8.2 million euros.

This Internationalisation Monitor focuses on export prices, export quality, trade instruments such as import tariffs, NTMs, trade agreements and companies’ choices with respect to their...

Last year, China’s share in Dutch exports of recyclable plastic waste was 2.7 percent. In 2010, still nearly half of all plastic waste generated by businesses and households had China as a foreign...

The development of well-being in the broad sense of the word – economic, ecological and social – in the Netherlands and the progress with regard to the SDGs of the United Nations; the current figures...

Eighty percent of working millionaire breadwinners are self-employed.

In 2018, the Netherlands imported 26.4 billion euros worth of goods from the United Kingdom. This amount was only higher in 2012 and 2013.

According to the first estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands GDP expanded by 0.2 percent in Q3 2018 relative to the previous quarter.

According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.4 percent in Q1 2022 relative to Q4 2021. The growth rate has been adjusted upwards.

The number of pronounced bankruptcies reached its lowest level since the start of the statistic in 1981.

The key focus of this Internationalisation Monitor is bilateral trade with the United Kingdom.

In 2021, 42.6 million tonnes of goods were transported over Dutch railways. This is 6.5 percent up on the previous year.

The economic climate in July 2022 has hardly changed compared to June, according to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer.

In 2020, altogether 601 billion kg of goods arrived in the Netherlands.

In 2020, altogether 84 million tonnes of goods (one tonne equals 1,000 kg) arrived in the Netherlands from Russia and Ukraine, with a value of 32 billion euros.

The Dutch retail sector recorded 5.3 percent year-on-year turnover growth. The volume of sales decreased by 4.8 percent.

In 2019, there were nearly 11 thousand employee jobs on Bonaire.

In June 2022, Dutch consumers paid on average over 11 percent more for food products than one year previously.

it is becoming more difficult to maintain this level of well-being. Many elements of Dutch natural capital are showing systemic deterioration, with increasing pressure on plant and animal...

Consumers spent 14.8 percent more in April 2022 compared to April one year previously. They mainly spent more on durable goods and services.

In April 2022, the total volume of goods exports was up by 2.8 percent year on year.

The economic climate in May 2022 is more positive than in April, according to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer.

At the beginning of Q2 2022, staff shortages formed the largest obstacle for entrepreneurs in carrying out their business activities.

The number of corporate bankruptcies, adjusted for court session days, has increased. There were 7 more bankruptcies in March than in the previous month.

In 2019, total energy consumption in the Netherlands stood at 3,080 petajoules (PJ), more or less the same as in the previous year.

In March 2020, goods imports from China and Hong Kong showed a year-on-year decline of 9 percent.