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One third of the Dutch population are politically active. They participate in discussions on political issues, take to the streets to demonstrate, sign petitions and contact politicians.

Compensation of employees, wages, jobs (by sex) , fte, hours worked quarterly, economic activity

East European lorries carry more and more goods to and from the Netherlands; between 2007 and 2011 their share increased from 8 to 12.5 percent.

The Dutch government spent 2.2 billion euro less on disability benefits for young people (Wajong benefits) in 2010. This accounts for one fifth of the country’s total spending on disability benefits.

The average daily output generated by Dutch manufacturing industry was 0.6 percent higher in November 2014 than in November 2013.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) aims to make interpretation and implementation of its figures as easy as possible for its users.

In 2019, there were 125 victims of murder or manslaughter in the Netherlands: 81 men and 44 women.

In 2018, the number of suicide deaths stood at1,829, which is 88 fewer than in 2017. The suicide rate declined among 10 to 19-year-olds.

In 2020, the agricultural area devoted to arable crops in the Netherlands fell by 0.3 percent relative to the previous year.

In 2017, over half a million households - 6.7 percent of the 7.7 million households in the Netherlands - had a standardised income exceeding 50,000 euros.

CBS and the city of Venlo are collaborating in the collection of regional and local data.

The economic situation has improved further at the end of December relative to the end of November.

In 2009, the Netherlands exported goods worth 4.6 billion euro to China, an increase by 20 percent relative to 2008. The value of imports from China dropped by more than 12 percent to approximately...

Since the introduction of adoption legislation in 1956, more than 55 thousand children have been adopted in the Netherlands.

At the end of June 2008, nearly 26 thousand asylumseekers in the Netherlands had been granted leave to remain in the Netherlands indefinitely based on the ‘pardon regulation’ of 2007. Most of these...

In the first four weeks of 2009, mortality among the older population was more than one thousand higher than in the preceding years.

Unemployment adjusted for seasonal variation increased by 18 thousand in January 2012 to 474 thousand, i.e. 6.0 percent of the labour force.

The non-food sector generated a turnover growth of 1.4 percent in August 2014 relative to August 2013, despite the fact that August 2014 had one shopping-day less.

According to the latest figures, seasonally adjusted unemployment totalled 392 thousand in June 2011, a reduction by 9 thousand from May.

The number of residential building permits issued in 2006 exceeded 96 thousand, the highest number in nearly a decade.

Turnover generated by the transport sector in the second quarter of 2013 was 0.5 percent up from the same period last year. Airlines and courier firms were the main contributors to the positive...

Dutch Internet users are spammed more often, but their PCs are less infected by computer viruses than Internet users in other countries of the European Union (EU).