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Across the world, there is an increasing need for information on climate change and energy transition, environmental quality and circularity, and nature and biodiversity.

Since 1995, the volume of Dutch agricultural production has grown by 20 percent. Nevertheless, there was no increase in the agricultural consumption of environmentally harmful substances such as...

Some 90% of all the products traded around the world are transported by ship.

This spring, the social sciences data platform ODISSEI received a grant of more than 9 million euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

In May 2022, unemployment stood at 323 thousand. This is 3.3 percent of the labour force and slightly higher than in April 2022, when it was 3.2 percent.

In 2021, 18 percent of Dutch young people aged 12 to 24 were mentally unhealthy. This was still 11 percent in 2019 and 2020.

material flow accounts, environmental accounts, biomass, minerals, metals resources, semi-finished products, finished products, fossil energy

Investments and net annual costs of environmental measures Mining and quarrying, Manufacturing and Public utilities

The average greenhouse gas footprint of Dutch consumers rose from 15.1 tonnes CO2 equivalents per capita in 2017 to 15.8 tonnes in 2018. Between 2008 and 2016 the footprint declined. Consumption of...

In the first six months van 2006 building permits were issued for over 49 thousand dwellings.

The Dutch environmental sector represented a value added of 18.8 billion euros in 2019, contributing approximately 2.3 percent to gross domestic product (GDP).

Material flow accounts, environmental accounts, biomass, minerals, metals biomassa, metalen, mineralen, materiaalstromen, grondstof, halffabrikaat

More than 37 thousand residential building permits were issued in the first six months of 2007.

In the first half of 2008, more than 28 thousand dwellings were completed, 13 percent more than in the same period of 2007.

In the period 2000-2014, waste generation in the Dutch economy remained relatively constant at 62 billion kg, while the economy itself grew by almost 16 percent.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) developed a Material Flow Monitor (MFM) that captures national resource extraction, imports and exports, product flows between economic sectors, as well as emissions and...

The sustainable energy sector accounted for 0.73 percent of total employment in 2016.

Dutch stocks of standing timber have increased by an average of over 1.3 million m3 per year since

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

Climate change mitigation expenditure by central government increased from 900 million euros in 2007 to more than 1.1 billion euros in 2015.

Between 2000 and 2014, emissions of heavy metals to water fell by nearly 58 percent, while the economy grew by 17 percent.

In the Netherlands, (non-metallic) minerals are predominantly used in the construction sector.

Between 2010 and 2016, the per capita raw material footprint (or per capita raw material consumption, RMC) fell from 11.2 tonnes to 8.1 tonnes.

The share of renewable energy sources in Dutch final energy consumption increased from 1.6 percent in 2000 to 6.0 percent in 2016.

The built-up area continues to increase, on average by 0.8 percentper year.