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40 percent international first-year students at Dutch universities
More and more foreign students enrol at a Dutch university (WO) or university of applied science (HBO).
40 percent of quests in Dutch overnight accommodations are foreigners
In 2013, more than 34 million guests stayed in overnight accommodations in the Netherlands, 700 thousand (2 percent) more than in 2012. Together, they spent 96 million nights in overnight...
Half of Dutch public debt in hands of foreign creditors
Dutch public debt amounted to 459 bn euros after the first quarter of this year, i.e. 68.9 percent of GDP. Half of public debt is in the hands of foreign creditors.
Direct investments
An enterprise with direct foreign investments is an enterprise in which an investor from another country owns at least 10 percent of the regular shares or votes or their equivalent. This relates to a...
Dutch Trade in Facts and Figures 2019
Dutch trade in facts and figures 2019 – export, investment and employment is an annually recurring publication. International trade in goods and services, investment, value chains, multinationals and...
Expenditure on foreign policy dramatically down
Last year, government expenditure on foreign policy amounted to 16 billion euro, a decrease by more than 9 percent relative to 2008. The decrease is mainly due to one-off, lower contributions to the...
More goods transported in foreign lorries
Foreign hauliers are becoming more important in Dutch road transport. From each 100 tons of goods loaded in the Netherlands, 6.4 tons were carried by foreign hauliers versus 5.5 tons in 2005.
Detention centre
Penitentiary for imprisonment of several types of offenders: People in detention on remand who must await their trial in detention, people serving a short jail sentence, several special legal cases...
Road haulage by foreign lorries up again
Road haulage to and from the Netherlands and by home country of haulier.
Foreign holidays account for higher CO2 emissions
In 2008, Dutch holiday travellers emitted 15.6 billion kilograms of CO2 into the atmosphere, 8 percent of total Dutch CO2 emissions and an increase by more than 16 percent in comparison to 2002....