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Prices of products manufactured in the Netherlands were 1.5 percent up in October 2016 on a year-on-year basis.

Output prices of products manufactured in the Netherlands were 5.8 percent down in July 2016 from July 2015.

Manufacturing prices continue to fall

Output prices of products manufactured in the Netherlands were down by 8.1 percent in April 2016.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) announced that the volume of investments in tangible fixed assets grew by 12.1 percent in September 2015 relative to September 2014. The increase is again mainly due to...

According to Statistics Netherlands nearly a quarter of all goods unloaded in the Port of Rotterdam originate from China. The number of containers coming from china had increased by 9 percent in 2014.

About CBS World Café VII: Vulnerabilities in the semiconductor supply chain

The population in the Netherlands has grown less rapidly over the past six months than in the same period last year.

According to the most recent figures, unemployment adjusted for seasonal variation was 398 thousand in January 2011, i.e. 5.1 percent of the labour force.

Dutch retail turnover was again higher in 2007 than in the preceding year. The growth rate was 3.7 percent.

Adjusted for seasonal variation, 412 thousand persons were unemployed in September 2010.

In June 2007, the Dutch – together with the Finns and the Poles – were still among Europe’s most optimistic consumers. Nine months later, optimism has largely evaporated.

According to the most recent figures, unemployment adjusted for seasonal variation increased further in August 2012 by 4 thousand to reach 514 thousand.

Optimism among producers in manufacturing industry continued to rise in July. The last time they were so confident about future prospects was in 1985.

Early 2011, Dutch consumers are more optimistic about future unemployment than in the same period last year, but not all Europeans are so positive. In half of all European countries, consumers were...

The Dutch government spent 270.3 billion euro in 2008. This is the equivalent of 45.5 percent of the Dutch gross domestic product (GDP).

In the third quarter of 2007, the number of under-65s receiving income support continued to fall.

The real disposable income of Dutch households rose by nearly 4 percent in 2007, the highest growth since 2001.

the number of welfare benefits claims on 30 June 2004 was 339 thousand, the same as in March. It is the first time in 18 months that there was no increase in the number of welfare benefits claims.

In the first quarter of 2011, the number of jobs of employees grew by 34 thousand relative to the first quarter of 2010.

In 2008, public expenditure on defence totalled 8.2 billion euro, i.e. 1.4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), as against 1.5 percent five years ago and 1.8 percent a decade ago.

Last year, 31.7 thousand marriages were dissolved in Dutch courts, slightly fewer than in 2008, when 32.9 divorces were legally terminated. The decrease appears to be temporary as the number of...