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Last year, 28 thousand native Dutch left the Netherlands to settle elsewhere, i.e. 9 thousand fewer than in record year 2006. The most popular destinations were Belgium and Germany.

The area of forest and open nature has increased slightly, but its share in the total land area is

In the period 2000-2014, the percentage of recycled waste in the Netherlands fluctuated around 80 percent.

Net population growth in the Netherlands numbered 76 thousand people in 2008, nearly 30 thousand more than in 2007.

The share of French wine in Dutch wine imports dropped for the sixth successive year in 2009. German, Italian and Chilean wines, on the other hand, are becoming increasingly popular.

By the end of April this year, 2.9 million benefits were granted in the Netherlands under the General Old Age Pensions Act (AOW), an increase by nearly 14 thousand relative to March 2011.

Nearly 24 thousand containers (half a million tons of goods) with cold-stored and deep-frozen products are transported overseas to the Netherlands every month.

In 2009, 84 percent of the 971 thousand delivery vans in the Netherlands were registered in the name of an enterprise.

According to the first estimate conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the Dutch economy recorded a negative growth rate of 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 2014 relative to the...