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Dutch ports handled a total of nearly 570 million tons of goods in 2014. Nearly half (48 percent) was carried by coastal shipping also referred to as short sea shipping. The rest of the goods were...

The total value of goods from China which entered the Netherlands in 2018 stood at 113 billion euros. This was 15 percent of the value of all incoming cargo that year.

In April 2022, the HICP for the Netherlands stood at 11.2 percent. It was 11.7 percent in March.

The Netherlands obtains 68 percent of its raw materials from elsewhere. Two thirds of the raw materials come from European countries.

Last year, 4.5 percent of total Dutch energy consumption was generated by means of renewable energy sources, i.e. the same as in 2012.

This spring, the social sciences data platform ODISSEI received a grant of more than 9 million euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

The largest gas field in Europe was discovered near Slochteren (Groningen) on 29 May 1959, this gave natural gas a vital role in the Dutch energy supply.

In Q1 2021, turnover in the accommodation and food services sector rose by 9.7 percent relative to the previous quarter.

the Dutch retail sector recorded 8.8 percent year-on-year turnover growth. The volume of sales went up by 3.7 percent. .

In 2017, 80 thousand heat pumps were installed which extract heat from the outside air.

Employees are increasingly less concerned about retaining their jobs; 24% in 2016 and as much as 34% in 2013.

The use of raw materials in the Dutch economy was reduced by 14 percent in the period 2004-2014.

Further growth investments

Further growth investments

Retail sector reports lower turnover

Close to 40 ideas were submitted for the innovation award. The jury selected four.

The method of repeated weighting aims at obtaining numerical consistency among tables estimated from different surveys.

In 2021, the Netherlands imported more than 2 billion euros worth of goods from Ukraine.

In 2019 the public surplus amounted to 1.7 percent of GDP. Both revenues and expenditure rose sharply. Public debt at the end of 2019 amounted to 48.6 percent of GDP.