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Trips, distance travelled, time traveled, average per person per day/year trip characteristics, purposes of travel and regions

By 1920, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) had become a large public sector institution. For comparison, when Henri Methorst was appointed Director in 1906, the organisation had five departments and...

In December, 352 thousand people were unemployed. From September through November, unemployment declined by an average of 10 thousand per month. The employed labour force (15 to 74 years) grew by an...

In July 2023, 362 thousand people aged 15 to 74 years were unemployed.

Once every ten years, there is a special day within CBS: the day when, after a long and concerted effort, the most recent census is finalised.

In 2021, 18 percent of the female population aged 12 and over were suffering from psychological complaints. This was 12 percent among the male population.

Collecting climate data should be just as routine for statistical institutes around the world as collecting data on the population or the economy.

Birth, death, life expectancy, health and disease, use of health care services, education and labour market, costs of care, care providers

Trips, distance travelled, time travelled, per person per day/year trip characteristics, modes of travel and regions

Distance travelled per trip, time travelled per trip trip characteristics, purposes of travel and regions

In 2022, altogether 73 inhabitants of the Netherlands died due to drowning in open water or in and around the house. This is 7 fewer people than in the previous year.

In 2020, altogether 84 million tonnes of goods (one tonne equals 1,000 kg) arrived in the Netherlands from Russia and Ukraine, with a value of 32 billion euros.

In May 2022, unemployment stood at 323 thousand. This is 3.3 percent of the labour force and slightly higher than in April 2022, when it was 3.2 percent.

Trips, distance travelled, time travelled, per person per day/year personal characteristics, purposes of travel and regions

On 1 November 2023, 55 percent of the approximately 78 thousand 15 to 64-year-old refugees with Ukrainian nationality living in the Netherlands were employed.

The figures published by CBS on nature in the Netherlands play an important role in all sorts of societal discussions, including the current debates on nirogen and biodiversity.

Few statistical offices were as advanced as CBS. Only Denmark and Finland conducted their censuses in the same way, using registers. Unique for the Netherlands was that it used survey data to fill...

Trips, distance travelled, time traveled, average per person per day/year personal characteristics, modes of travel and regions

In November 2022, 364 thousand people were unemployed. From September through November, unemployment declined by an average of 5 thousand per month.

Percentage traffic participation, public transport participation personal characteristics,

The economic climate in February 2024 is more negative than it was in January.

Total, mean and median wealth of households household characteristics and components of wealth

Sector accounts; key figures Most important figures of institutional sectors

Trips, distance travelled, time travelled, per person per day/year modes of travel, purposes of travel and regions

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’...