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Despite having paid jobs, 370 thousand households in the Netherlands were living below the poverty line in 2009.

Last year, 25 strikes were organized in the Netherlands. The number of lost working days involved was the lowest since 1985.

China is the main supplier of high-tech products for the Netherlands. The import of high-tech products such as computers and mobile phones is gaining ground to the detriment of low-tech products,...

ICT has had a positive effect on the Dutch economy between 2000 and December 2010. Firms became more productive in sectors where ICT is used intensively.

Value added tax was introduced in the Netherlands in 1969. In that year it generated just over 2.5 billion euro in revenue; nearly 40 years later VAT revenue amounted to nearly 43 billion euro.

Single men spend their money on other things than single women. Men spend more on cars, eating out and gadgets, while women spend more on clothes, personal care and fruit and vegetables.

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...

Some nine out of ten people aged over 75 in the Netherlands consulted their general practitioner at least once in 2008.

Statistics Netherlands announced today that the volume of investment in tangible fixed assets was 0.4 percent lower in November 2014 than in November 2013. The modest decrease is mainly caused by...

Dutch arable farmers achieved a record harvest of the cereal varieties wheat and barley.

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

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).

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

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