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ISI World Statistics Congress 2025: The Olympic Games of Statistics
This year, the International Statistical Institute (ISI) will host the 65th World Statistics Congress in The Hague from 5 to 9 October.
1,849 suicides in 2024
Last year, 1,849 people took their own lives. That means there were five suicides per day, on average.
Dutch consumers remain equally negative in May
Consumer confidence stood at -37 in May, just as in April.
Passenger cars keep getting longer, wider and heavier
assenger cars have increased in weight by an average of 94 kilograms, or 8.1 percent, over the past ten years.
Investments in tangible fixed assets; business sector
Investments business sector (SIC 2008), Tangible fixed assets
More freshwater biodiversity, less on land
Since 1990, the Living Planet Index for the Netherlands has increased by an average of 13 percent.
Dutch dependency on critical raw materials
Dutch dependency on critical raw materials
A new method of calculating the consumer price index
Subtitled in English Due to the rapid increase in energy prices in recent years, it became apparent that the traditional method of calculating the consumer price index (CPI) and inflation was no...
SDG 12 Responsible consumption and production
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...
Imports from US are mainly oil, gas and services
Dutch firms imported over 93 billion euros worth of goods and services from the United States in 2023.
Government; debt guarantees, off-balance PPP, non-performing loans
one-off and standardised guarantees, adjusted capital value of off balance sheet public private partnerships, government sectors.
Traffic mortality down by 42 percent in past 25 years
A total of 675 people died in traffic accidents in 2024, 9 fewer than in 2023.
Increase in negotiated wages in 2024 was highest in over forty years
In 2024, negotiated wages were 6.6 percent higher than in 2023, on average
More kilometres driven than before the pandemic
Passenger cars registered in the Netherlands drove a combined total of nearly 122 billion kilometres in 2024, both within the country and abroad.
Possible circumvention of sanctions against Russia by newer, smaller firms
Goods exports from the Netherlands to Russia fell sharply following the tightening of sanctions by the European Union in 2022.
7 in 10 people sometimes doubt the truth of information seen online
In 2025, 72 percent of people in the Nethlerands say they have seen or read information online that they believed to be untrue
8.1 million adults are registered for organ donation
On 1 January 2025, 8.1 million people aged 18 years or older were registered as organ donor in the national Donor Register.
Use of pesticides in agriculture down by over 20 percent since 2020
The agriculture sector used 3.9 million kilograms of crop protection products in 2024, a decrease of more than 22 percent since 2020
More asylum seekers with residency in paid work
Work has become the main source of income for asylum seekers who have been a resident in the Netherlands for a longer period of time.
The Netherlands has more millionaires than ever
On 1 January 2024, 5.5 percent of households in the Netherlands had assets worth 1 million euros or more
Trade deficit with US due to mineral fuel imports
In the first three quarters of 2024, Dutch companies exported goods with a value of 28.2 billion euros to the United States
Average purchasing power up by 3.6 percent in 2024
Purchasing power in the Netherlands increased by 3.6 percent in 2024.
2.5 thousand multiple births in 2024
There were 2,448 twin births in 2024, as well as 32 triple and multiple births.
Gender pay gap is narrowing
The average hourly wages for women in 2024 were 10.5 percent lower than those for men.
Fewer goods handled at Dutch seaports, particularly coal and natural gas
The total volume of incoming and outgoing cargo that passed through seaports in the Neth-erlands in 2024 fell by 1.1 percent to 577 million tonnes