Search results
Page 15 of 18
Electricity imports down in 2007
In 2007, net imports of electricity plummeted by 18 percent. The upward trend observed in recent years was reversed.
Bankruptcies in sectors trade and business services more than doubled
In the first six months of 2009, more than twice as many companies in the sectors trade and business services were declared bankrupt as in the same period one year previously.
Number of vacancies plummets
There was a dramatic reduction in the amount of unfilled vacancies by 54 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2008 relative to the third quarter.
Environmental taxes and fees; revenues by taxpayer 1987-2012
Environmental taxes, environmental fees taxpayer
Unemployment among people with non-western background further up in 2010
Proportionally, the unemployment increase among people with a non-western background was the same in 2010 as in the native Dutch population.
Commodity nomenclature NST 2007
The classification of goods based on the NST 2007.
The State; tax revenues, ESA 1999-2011
Taxes on income and property, production and imports and death duty in terms of the ESA 1995 categories.
more goods entering seaports, larger ships
The volume of goods arriving in Dutch seaports rose by 24 percent between 2000 and 2013. Last year, 388 million tonnes of goods arrived by sea, mostly bulk and container goods. The number of ships...
Greenhouse gas emissions further down due to economic crisis
Total emission of greenhouse gases in the Netherlands fell for the fifth consecutive year in 2009. With 201 billion CO2 equivalents, total emissions were nearly 6 percent below the level of 1990, the...
Removal companies in the lift after crisis in the transport sector
Removal companies realised almost 6 percent more turnover in the first quarter of 2015 than in the same quarter of 2014. This meant that turnover increased for six quarters in a rowTurnover in the...
Supportive colleagues make a difference
Employees who lack support from their colleagues more often report sick than those who receive support from their working environment.
Population growth rate remains low
In the first quarter of 2005 the population of the Netherlands grew by nearly 5 thousand. The population growth remains very moderate due to the low birth rate and the high mortality rate.
Waste recycling
In the period 2000-2014, the percentage of recycled waste in the Netherlands fluctuated around 80 percent.
In, through and outflow in education 1995/'96-2008/'09
Flow of pupils in education Type of school, certified, gender
Oil tankers dominate short sea shipping
Dutch ports handled a total of nearly 570 million tons of goods in 2014. Nearly half (48 percent) was carried by coastal shipping also referred to as short sea shipping. The rest of the goods were...
Dutch railways used intensively
The Netherlands has one of the shortest railway networks in western Europe. Together with Belgium and the United Kingdom, it does have the largest share of multiple track railway, however.
Bloemendaal and Wassenaar richest Dutch municipalities
Bloemendaal and Wassenaar are the two municipalities in the Netherlands with the highest per capita income. The richest municipalities are mainly located in the province North Holland, the poorest in...
Onshore wind turbines taller and more efficient
Dutch wind turbines collectively generated 7.6 billion kWh of electricity in 2015.