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Fewer people claiming benefits
For the first time in ten years, the number of people in the Netherlands claiming a social benefit has decreased across the board.
Baby boomers: ripples of a birth wave
Some 2.4 million babies were born in the Netherlands in the period 1946–1955. Although births also peaked in other countries in western Europe after the war, until the mid 1950s the Dutch birth rate...
CBS introducing a voice assistant tool
Our information searching behaviour on the Internet is intensifying. We used to just type a question into a search engine, but this has become more and more obsolete
Migration background still plays a role
The Annual Report on Integration 2016 gives an overview of various population groups with a migrant background.
Economic situation improves further
According to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation has improved further in November.
Care spending up by 4.4 percent
Spending on health care and welfare in the Netherlands amounted to 65.7 billion euro in 2006. This is 4.4 percent more than in 2005.
Economic situation hardly changes
The economic situation is more or less the same in September compared to one month previously.
Manufacturers slightly less confident in July
Confidence among Dutch manufacturers stood at 6.6 in July, down from 7.2 in June.
Dutch manufacturers remain positive
Dutch manufacturers remain positive
Lack of important new skills or know-how among nearly a quarter of Dutch employees
Lack of important new skills or know-how among nearly a quarter of Dutch employees In 2014 some 23 percent of all Dutch employees lacked new skills and know-how they needed to perform well in their...
Modest growth for exports
The volume of exports of goods was 1.2 percent up in April 2014 from April 2013. In the first months of 2014, the foreign demand for natural gas was considerably lower than twelve months previously,...
Imports and exports 10 percent up in 2004
In 2004 the value of imported and exported goods was 10 percent up on 2003. The value of imports reached 228.0 billion euro, exports 257.8 billion euro. The effect of slightly higher import and...
Labour and leisure time
Latest figures on distribution of well-being ‘here and now’. How is well-being distributed in terms of labour and leisure time? The kind of work people do often determines their quality of life....
Dutch agricultural exports at record high
Duch agricultural exports reached a record high in 2017.
Economic situation fairly stable
According to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation has hardly changed in January.
Exports nearly 400 times higher than in 1917
The Netherlands' external trade has grown explosively over the past century.
Producer confidence at highest level in over 9 years.
Confidence among Dutch manufacturers stood at 8.3 in April, up from 7.8 in March.
Purchasing power improved in the Caribbean Netherlands
The increase in purchasing power in 2012 was 3.2 percent on Bonaire.
inflation rate 2014 lowest in more than 25 years
Statistics Netherlands announced today that the average inflation rate over the year 2014 was 1 percent. The price increase for products and services Dutch consumers bought last year is the smallest...