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Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 21-25 September 2009 (Week 39).

Obese and underweight persons are more often depressive than people in the normal body weight range.

Selection of Statistics Netherlands releases in the period 23-27 March 2009 (Week 13).

Schools and childcare centres in the Netherlands have been closed as a measure against the spread of coronavirus. Parents and guardians who work in crucial sectors can rely on arranged childcare so...

In the second quarter of this year, 55 thousand jobs of employees (a decline by 0.7 percent) were lost relative to the second quarter of 2011. Employment was down in many sectors relative to one year...

The Environmental Data Compendium is a website aimed at providing the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the environment, the nature and the landscape as well as spatial developments in...

In the first quarter of 2012, the number of jobs of employees was 13 thousand down on the first quarter of 2011, a decrease of 0.2 percent.

In the fourth quarter of 2011, the number of jobs of employees was 34 thousand up from the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase by 0.4 percent.

The per capita consumption of light soft drinks in the Netherlands was 30 litres last year, approximately the same as in 2006.

On 25 September 2015 the United Nations formulated 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Economic growth 0.5 percent in Q1 2016

In the first quarter of 2010, collectively negotiated (CAO) wages were 1.6 percent higher than one year previously. Since early 2009, the increase in CAO wages was reduced by more than half.

19 thousand Dutch companies implemented technological innovations in the period 2012-2014.

On 1 October 2014, there were nearly 2.2 thousand people in the Netherlands aged 100 years or older, i.e. more than twice as many as on 1 January 2000. The number of centenarians is likely to have...

Unemployment in the young population is rising rapidly; from 9.3 percent in the second quarter of 2008 to 11.4 percent in the same period this year. Young people are often the first to suffer the...

Over the past decade, the amount of jobs in the care sector increased by 385 thousand. Overall employment growth in the Netherlands was 515 thousand, so three quarters of new jobs in the past ten...

Greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands were more than 6.5 percent lower in 2011 than in 2010. This was caused by a decrease in energy consumption of nearly 7 percent.

Last year, the proportion of people in the Netherlands taking non-prescribed medicines was as high as those taking prescribed medicines. Over-the-counter (OTC) medication is more common among women,...