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In 2020, the number of salaried jobs in the Caribbean Netherlands fell by almost 2 percent year-on-year.

In July 2022, unemployment rose further to 353 thousand. This is 3.6 percent of the labour force. From May through July, unemployment rose by an average of 12 thousand per month.

In 2020, the difference in average gross hourly earnings of male and female employees in the public sector decreased by 2 percentage points relative to 2018.

Jobs Employee characteristics, job characteristics, migration background

Labour force, unemployment, labour participation Position in household, sex, age

Labour force, unemployment, labour participation Young people (15-24 years), sex, in education or not

Labour force, unemployment rate, labour participation Sex, age, level of education

The Eighth General Census (which included questions on occupation and housing) was the first to be organised under the responsibility of Dr Coenraad Verrijn Stuart, director of CBS at the time. CBS’...

How has the Dutch economy performed in the fourth quarter of 2023? And throughout 2023? What were the developments on the labour market? CBS chief economist Peter Hein van Mulligen explains the...

Seasonally adjusted vacancies only totals

Following a six-year period of continuous job vacancy growth, in 2020 the number of new vacancies fell by 241 thousand to 1.0 million.

Profit/loss account, balance sheet, personnel, self-employed, hospitals, mental health hospitals, residential care for children

Vacancies, new vacancies and filled vacancies eight government sectors

Vacancy rate Economic activity SIC2008

Tourism, contribution to the Dutch economy, key indicators. Employment, value added and expenditures in the tourism industry.

Employed persons, years of work, enterprises with in-house R&D activities Sectors, businesses, institutions, institutions of higher education

In 2023, in 13 percent of families with children under 18 only the father was in paid work, while their partners (mostly women) were not in paid work.

According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.4 percent in Q4 2023 relative to Q3 2023.

According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 0.3 percent in Q3 2023 relative to Q2 2023.

In 2023, 49 percent of the Dutch population aged 15 and older said they had participated in volunteer activities for an organisation or club at least once in the previous twelve months.

Statistics Netherlands reviews the year 2023.

The number of young people aged 15-26 in paid work increased by 34 thousand in Q4 2023 compared to the same quarter one year earlier.

The increase in labour force participation, which continued almost uninterrupted in the last six months of 2023, came to a halt early this year.

According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 0.2 percent in Q2 2023 relative to Q1 2023.

Young adults in the Netherlands face a variety of economic challenges: employers are giving out more temporary contracts, income growth is stagnating, students have to take on more debt, there’s an...