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The Dutch long-term interest rate, based on the return of the most recent ten-year government loan, averaged 2.6 percent in October 2010, up from 2.5 percent in September. The long-term interest rate...

Based on the first nine months of this year, the number of first-born children per thousand women aged 15-49 is estimated at slightly under 22, against slightly over 20 first-born children in this...

According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the average daily output generated by Dutch manufacturing industry was 0.7 percent up in September 2015 from the same month last year. This is mainly due to...

According to the latest figures, 316 thousand social security benefits were granted by the end of last year to individuals under the age of 65 living at home, i.e. 9 thousand more than one year...

The Dutch long-term interest rate, based on the return of the most recent ten-year government loan, averaged 4.0 percent in June. This is 0.1 percentage points up on May. June was the third month in...

Life expectancy in the Netherlands is increasing, but people also enjoy more years without physical limitations.

Prices of entrance fees for zoos, amusement parks, theatres and museums have been raised considerably over the past eighteen months. Entrance fees of museums and zoos were raised by no less than 10...

Turnover generated by airline companies improved 8 percent last year to reach nearly 11 billion euros. The growing number of passengers and fuel prices passed on to consumers created a turnover boost.

Overdrafts on current accounts rose by 5.5 percent in 2008 relative to 2007. Dutch consumers borrowed 1 percent more in 2008 than in the previous year.

In the first six months of 2010, Dutch companies quoted on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange have paid more than 7 billion euro in dividends to their shareholders, an increase by 300 million euro relative...

December’s consumer confidence index was marginally up on the previous month and is now, after a minor downturn in November, back at the level of September and October.

In May 2012, manufacturers’ stocks of finished products were nearly 3 percent up from twelve months previously. The increase in May was more substantial than in April (1.5 percent). The stocks of...

In 2008, the Netherlands exported nearly 4 billion euro worth of goods to Turkey, 2 percent more than in 2007. For the seventh year running, exports have grown. Since the turn of the century, exports...