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Marginal increase unfinished dwellings
By the end of the first quarter of this year, 186 thousand houses in the Netherlands were nearing completion, i.e. 3.4 percent more than in the same period one year previously.
Investments in the Netherlands dramatically down since 2008
Statistics Netherlands announced today that investments have seriously fallen behind in the Netherlands in the past years. Another factor that plays a part in this respect is that Dutch companies...
Sustained economic contraction
Taking into account the working-day pattern and the effects of seasonal variation, the Dutch economy shrank by 0.4 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the fourth quarter of 2012.This was...
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...
Fire brigades respond more rapidly to alarms
Fire brigades arrive sooner at the scene in the case of chimney and indoor fires. Last year, the dispatch time, i.e. the time interval between receipt of the alarm in the emergency room and departure...
Few Eastern Europeans living in the Netherlands receive social security and unemployment benefits
In recent years, the number of people from Eastern European EU countries living in the Netherlands has risen rapidly, but relatively few receive social security or unemployment (WW) benefits. By the...
Economy in decline
Taking into account the working-day pattern and the effects of seasonal variation,the Dutch economy contracted by 0.1 percent in the second quarter of 2013 compared to the first quarter of 2013.
Unemployment down by nearly 70 thousand in 2007
Last year, an average of 344 thousand people were unemployed, i.e. 69 thousand fewer than in 2006.
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...
Manufacturers much more sombre
Producers’ confidence in the manufacturing industry has deteriorated substantially in June, and is now -1.7. In May it was still 0.8. Producers’ confidence has now reached at its lowest level since...
Fewer unemployed
In the period November 2007-January 2008, an average of 308 thousand people were unemployed, corresponding to 4.0 percent of the labour force, as against 5.0 percent in the same period one year...
Number of unemployment benefits growing faster
Some 11 thousand more unemployment benefits (WW) were paid out in April 2009 than the month before. This brings the seasonally adjusted figure to 203 thousand.
Institutional investors; investments in property 1980 - 2012
Pension funds, insurance corporations, investment funds. Direct property, indirect property.
butterfly populations showing signs of tentative recovery
Slightly more butterfly species have increased in number since 2006 than decreased: 20 versus 11. Growing populations include various endangered species. Two factors affect the butterfly populations...
Record number of bankruptcies in 2009
More than 10.5 thousand bankruptcies were filed in 2009, the highest number ever in the span of one year. The bankruptcy rate was particularly high in the first six months of 2009. Overall, the...
More immigrants, fewer emigrants
Immigration increased over the past quarter, in particular immigrants from the new EU member states Bulgaria and Romania came to the Netherlands.
Fall in environmental costs for companies comes to a halt
Dutch companies have invested substantially in improving air, water and soil quality in recent years. As a result of environmental subsidies, environment-related costs paid by companies have not...