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The turnover of health care institutions increased greatly in 2009, as it had in 2008, despite the recession in the Netherlands. Profits also rose substantially.

Last year, 830 new inhabitants were added to the population of the Caribbean Netherlands. This was mainly due to foreign migration.

In 2009, generation of renewable electricity has risen to nearly 9 percent of total domestic electricity consumption. The objective of the Dutch government was to raise the share of renewable energy...

In 2004 the number of people in the Netherlands taking prescribed or unprescribed medicines increased further. Contraceptive pill use among women continued to decline. People had fewer GP contacts...

As of July 2022, the mood among Dutch manufacturers is slightly more positive.

Dutch 25 to 34 year-olds experience lower levels of well-being than people in other age groups.

The quality of life is high in the Netherlands compared to other European countries, but it seems impossible to retain this level of prosperity in the long run.

In the four major cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht), the number of 0 to 5-year old children is growing, while in the rest of the Netherlands the number of young children is...

Dutch consumers have never been gloomier than in August 2022.

In 2019, Dutch lorries carried a total weight of 689 million tonnes in goods. This is 1.3 percent more than in 2018. Transport by Dutch road hauliers has shown an upward trend since 2015.

In 2017, 29 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds were addicted to social media in their own view.

The volume of care provided to the elderly is growing faster than the number of patients. As a result, the volume of care per old person is increasing.

The share of employees in the Netherlands who say they want to work until they reach the age of 65 years has doubled in the space of four years: from 21 percent in 2005 to 42 percent in 2009

Last year, there were 1.6 million couples with at least one underage child in the Netherlands. In 77 percent of these families both parents worked.

Generation of electricity by wind turbines grew by nearly 20 percent last year. According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS) over half of total renewable electricity in 2015 was generated by wind...

In the Netherlands, enterprises setting up business outnumber those that are closing down. In 2011 the number of enterprises grew by nearly 7 percent.