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over 80 percent of Caribbean Netherlands population are religious
In 2013, 88 percent of inhabitants on Bonaire aged 15 years and older reported having a religious denomination. On Saba and St Eustatius 83 percent of inhabitants said they were religious. The number...
Final resting place costs municipalities 52 million euro
The Dutch municipalities together spent nearly 173 million euro on maintaining and managing municipal cemeteries and performing other burial tasks in 2010. The revenues amounted to over 120 million...
Nearly 15 thousand lawyers in the Netherlands in 2007
In 2007, there were approximately 15 thousand lawyers in the Netherlands, nearly 4 thousand more than in 2000. The steady increase in the number of lawyers is not merely confined to the Netherlands.
Registered crime down in 2012
Dutch police recorded 5 percent fewer criminal offences in 2012 than in 2011. Registered crime in the Netherlands has been showing a downward trend for a number of years now. However, the number of...
Income support claimants in smaller towns more likely to find work
Lead: Just over 9 percent of people claiming income support in the Netherlands at the end of 2010 found a job in 2011. This percentage was highest in smaller municipalities.
Municipalities collect less household waste and more plastic
Dutch municipalities collected 556 kilograms of household waste per inhabitant in 2009. That is 1 percent less than in 2008.
consumers getting fewer haircuts
Dutch consumers had their hair done less often or opted for cheaper hairdressers, products or treatment in the third quarter than in the previous quarter. This is the third quarter in a row that this...
Immigration increasing again
Over 22 thousand immigrants took up residence in the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2006. This is almost 2 thousand more than in the same period of 2005.
Population counter
The population counter shows how many registered inhabitants there are in the Netherlands at this moment according to the most recent estimate of Statistics Netherlands.
Growth in spending on health care in the Netherlands and the OECD levelling off
The growth of spending on health care has been levelling off in recent years in the Netherlands and other OECD countries. The number of medical doctors per one thousand inhabitants is slightly below...
No further increase in number of suicides over 2014
In 2014, 1,835 inhabitants of the Netherlands ended their own lives, on average five per day. The suicide rate did not go up for the first time in years. Six in ten people who committed suicide were...