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Birth; key figures
Key figures on birth by sex, birth order or marital status of the mother. Including figures on stillborn children and multiple births
Nearly 100 thousand young people are half-orphans
At the end of 2021, nearly 100 thousand young people aged 0 to 24 years were half-orphans. In addition, over 1.5 thousand young people were orphans.
Childcare benefits for over 1 million children
In 2021, childcare benefits were paid for over 1 million children. The number of children with parents receiving a childcare allowance has been rising since 2015, although growth has levelled off in...
More childless men
Relatively more men born in the period 1945-1964 are childless than women of the same generation. In addition, those who do have children are three years older on average than women born in the same...
Birth; age mother (on 31-12), birth order and fertility rates 1950-2014
Live born children by birth order from the mother, numbers and rates by age of the mother
Population, households and population dynamics; from 1899
Population, households, population growth, births, mortality, marriages, marriage dissolutions, change of nationality and migration
Half of all adult adoptees have searched for birth information
Half of all intercountry adoptees who are now adults have ever searched for information on their background.
CBS studies well-being of people with inter-country adoption backgrounds
In recent years, people who have been adopted from abroad have regularly reported that things went wrong during the adoption process.
More families with parent(s) over 50
More children living at home have older parents. Nearly one in three parents with children living at home were in their fifties in 2010.
Large proportion of labour migrants leave the Netherlands within four years
About 40 percent of labour migrants, who have come to the Netherlands since 1999, leave the country within four years. The lowest and top incomes are more prone to leave the Netherlands than persons...
The Netherlands 10 years after Lehman Brothers
The Netherlands ten years after the onset of the global credit crisis. Developments in unemployment, GDP, labour participation, housing market, social assistance benefits, debt liabilities and other...