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According to the European Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), inflation stood at 17.1 percent in September, as reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

In February 2023, the average daily output of the Dutch manufacturing industry was 2.0 percent lower than in February 2022.

The population of the Netherlands is estimated to have increased by almost 227 thousand last year, to over 17.8 million. The increase is almost double compared to 2021, when 115 thousand inhabitants...

Latest figures on distribution of well-being ‘here and now’. How is well-being distributed in terms of society? Well-being includes people having opportunities to participate in society and living in...

Bankruptcies Company age and number of employees

This publication looks at barriers to international trade in services. The first part focuses on the impact of trade barriers when it comes to the decision of firms to start exporting services to a...

The consumer price index (CPI) was 14.3 percent higher in October than in the same month last year.

CBS’ chief economist Peter Hein van Mulligen explains in less than 5 minutes what exactly inflation is and how it is calculated by CBS. Contents: 00:00 - 01:46 What is inflation? 01:47 - 02:17 How...

In 2020, enterprises, institutions and the higher education sector in the Netherlands spent nearly 18.4 billion euros on research and development (R&D), using own and hired personnel.

In December, 352 thousand people were unemployed. From September through November, unemployment declined by an average of 10 thousand per month. The employed labour force (15 to 74 years) grew by an...

By 2030, the islands of the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba) are expected to have a total population of 31.8 thousand.

In February, prices of Dutch-manufactured products were up by an average of 8.1 percent year on year.

The Dutch retail sector recorded 8.5 percent year-on-year turnover growth. The volume of sales decreased by 2.9 percent.

The past decade has seen our economy undergo a metamorphosis thanks to digitisation.

In 2022, altogether 183.7 thousand tourists flew to the islands of the Caribbean Netherlands.

Confidence among Dutch manufacturers has improved in March 2023.

According to the first quarterly estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) on the basis of currently available data, in Q3 2022 gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 0.2 percent relative...

In July 2023, 362 thousand people aged 15 to 74 years were unemployed.

Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 Decent work and economic growth: economy and factors of production. SDG 8.1 focuses on making the economy more sustainable and more efficient. In...

Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 Partnerships for the goals. SDG 17 differs from the other SDGs in that it does not set concrete quantitative targets around one theme.

Units with a complete administration but without legal status that behave like corporations. They supposedly have independent power of decision. These are mainly fairly large enterprises without...

Turnover in the accommodation and food services sector rose by 2.7 percent in the third quarter relative to the second quarter. The volume (turnover adjusted for price changes) hardly increased (0.1...

In 2021, 58 percent of the Dutch population aged 15 years and over stated they did not belong to a religious or ideological group.

In 2020, Dutch companies generated almost 32 billion euros in turnover from the online sale of goods to consumers.