Search results

More children living at home have older parents. Nearly one in three parents with children living at home were in their fifties in 2010.

In the first half of 2020, 71 percent of the Dutch population aged 12 years and over – around 10.7 million people – purchased something online.

The Emancipation Monitor by CBS and SCP shows that the economic position of women has improved.

In 2020 the Dutch retail sector achieved 5.9 percent year-on-year turnover growth, the second-highest growth rate recorded this century. However, due to the measures against the spread of...

Last year, 478 thousand people (7 percent of all employed) were involved in workplace accidents resulting in physical injuries or mental damage. Most accidents occur in the sectors hotels and...

Over 10 thousand bankruptcies were declared in 2005, the highest number ever.

Female entrepreneurs in the Dutch business economy are engaged in international activities to virtually the same degree as their male counterparts.

Dutch municipalities expect to spend nearly 2.6 billion euro on home help and provisions for individual mobility covered by the Social Support Act (Wmo).

In 2008, the value of sweets exports was nearly twice as high as its imports value. Chocolate is by far the most popular type of sweets.

In December 2020, altogether 3,904 people died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Consumers spent 11.9 percent less in December 2020 than in the same month last year.

Residents of the south part of the Netherlands are more active in crime prevention than people living elsewhere. They look better after their possessions and their homes are better protected. People...

Male life expectancy at birth for boys in the Netherlands was 79.9 years (2014). Male life expectancy is marginally higher in Norway, Sweden, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Dutch girls have 83.3 years...

In week 23 (7 to 13 June 2021 inclusive), the estimated number of deaths stood at slightly over 2,800.

In January 2021 the Dutch retail sector recorded 5.9 percent year-on-year turnover decline.

In week 51, 47 companies and institutions including sole proprietorships were declared bankrupt.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.8 percent higher in February than in the same month last year.

The past decade has seen our economy undergo a metamorphosis thanks to digitisation.

An increasing proportion in the Dutch population think unemployment will rise over the next twelve months. Manufacturing industry, construction and business services expect employment to deteriorate.

In 2018, 72 percent of the 15 to 74-year-olds in the Caribbean Netherlands were in paid employment.

Last year, 184 thousand children were born in the Netherlands. Three quarters were hospital births, one quarter home births.