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In 2011 372 thousand crime suspects were registered. That was nearly 3 percent less than the year before.

Consumer confidence in the Netherlands has fallen substantially in the space of one year: from -5 in the first quarter of 2011 to -36 in the second quarter of 2012. Among people with the highest...

The share of unemployment (WW) and income support benefit recipients has grown during the past half decade. The number of WW recipients has risen by 77 percent. The increase was relatively large in...

The fall in unemployment among people with a non-western foreign background in the Netherlands quickened in 2007.

Employees are increasingly less concerned about retaining their jobs; 24% in 2016 and as much as 34% in 2013.

The purchasing power of the Dutch population was reduced by 1.1 percent in 2013. Purchasing power fell for the fourth year in a row, consistent with the economic recession and climbing unemployment...

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

The Dutch Cabinet has commissioned CBS to compile an annual Monitor of well-being.

a detailed review of the country’s position with regard to the UN SDGs

In 2007, greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands were reduced for the third consecutive year. The total emission volume amounted to 205 billion kg of CO2 equivalents, i.e. 4 percent below the...

The production of renewable electricity dropped from 6.5 percent of domestic electricity consumption in 2006 to 6.0 percent in 2007.

In the third quarter of 2009, more than 40 thousand people, i.e. 5 thousand more than one year previously, would like to have paid jobs, but were not actively seeking, because they thought their...

The Dutch government spent 15.8 billion euro on state old age pensions in the first half of 2011. This is 6 percent more than in the same period last year.

In the last two decades consumers started using their PIN cards more and more to pay in shops. Some 55 percent of the purchase value was paid in this way by 2008.