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Differences in prosperity levels in Europe reduced
The Netherlands was the second most prosperous country in the European Union (EU) in 2011 after Luxembourg. Bulgaria and Romania are the least prosperous countries in the EU. Relative to 1995, the...
Sale of Nuon and Essent fattens provincial coffers
Together, the financial capital of the twelve Dutch provinces amounted to nearly 4 billion euro in 2008. The sale of energy companies Nuon and Essent in the third quarter of 2009 pushed this amount...
Disposable income falls further
Real disposable income of Dutch households fell by 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013. Although real disposable income has been decreasing since the third quarter of 2011, this quarter the...
Households lose considerable part of their financial capital due to falling prices
The total amount lost by Dutch households over the first three quarters of 2008 as a consequence of the crash on the stock exchange was unprecedented.
A picture of the cultural sector. Contributions by the cultural sector to employment and prosperity (2010-2013) (Dutch only)
Custom-made tables on the number of jobs, working years and self-employed in the cultural sector.Commissioned by: Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW).
Own home main asset
In 2006, well before the credit crisis, Dutch households had assets worth a total 1,566 billion euro, most of which was accounted for by own homes. To offset these assets, the households had a total...
Personal capital households further reduced
The personal capital of households in the Netherlands has declined further. On 1 January 2011, the median household capital was 29 thousand euro versus 33 thousand euro early 2010, a decline by 12...
Personal capital households reduced in 2012
The median personal capital of households in the Netherlands was 27 thousand euros on 1 January 2012, a reduction by 10 percent relative to the beginning of 2011.
Self-employed are wealthiest category
Self-employed households and over-65 couples were the wealthiest categories on 1 January 2009.
More than one million households have 'underwater' mortgages
Early 2011, 4.2 million households in the Netherlands owned the homes they lived in. In more than one million cases, the value of the house was below the mortgage debt level. Since 2008, the...
Half of capital loss households regained, plummeting profits private sector
The capital owned by Dutch households has grown by 136 billion euro in 2009, the most substantial increase ever recorded in the span of one year. This means that 57 percent of the capital that...
Macroeconomic imbalances factsheet
The European Union has formulated the so called Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure. By means of a scoreboard, the European Commission judges whether there are (potential) imbalances within the member...
Solar electricity not very popular in the Netherlands
Since the subsidy on solar electricity systems was abolished in 2003, sales of solar electricity systems on the Dutch market have plummeted. Last year, few new systems were added. Nevertheless, Dutch...
Disposable household income falls again
Real disposable income of Dutch households was 1.1 percent lower in 2013 than in 2012. The decrease was smaller than in 2012, when disposable income fell by 2.2 percent. The decrease in 2013 was...
Prosperity increased in last decades
The disposable income of Dutch households was 33.2 thousand euro on average in 2010.
Income gaps stable and relatively small
The recession, which began late 2008, did not cause income inequality to grow. Income disparities are small in the Netherlands relative to other countries, although income differences between...