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In April 2015, retail prices of Dutch manufactured products were 6.1 down percent from April 2014. In March this year, prices were 6.9 percent below the level of twelve months previously.

Last year, 156 thousand hybrid cars were registered in the Netherlands, a fourfold increase relative to five years ago. They covered an overall distance of 2.5 billion kilometres. Last year, more...

In 2013, 1,854 people in the Netherlands ended their own lives, 101 more than in 2012. This is the sixth year in a row that the number of suicides has increased. In spite of this, the suicide rate is...

142 thousand children were born during the first nine months of 2005. Since this is 4 thousand less than in the same period of 2004, Dutch population growth is slowing down.

On 1 October 2014, there were nearly 2.2 thousand people in the Netherlands aged 100 years or older, i.e. more than twice as many as on 1 January 2000. The number of centenarians is likely to have...

At the end of 2008, 280 thousand people in the Netherlands were defaulting on the payment of their health insurance premiums.

Statistics Netherlands announced today that older employees are generally believed to be more stress resistant, while younger employees appear to be more versed in adopting new technologies. Opinions...

According to Statistics Netherlands’ Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation in July was about the same as in June. Economic recovery has come to a virtual standstill in the last few months.

The balance of the Dutch government budget according to the EMU definition came to -0.3 percent of GDP for 2005. This means the government deficit stayed well within the limits of the European 3...

In the third quarter of 2006 there were 110 thousand more jobs for employees in the Netherlands than in the same quarter last year.

Croatia will be joining the European Union as its 28th member country on 1 July 2013. The Netherlands counts around 5,900 Croats among its residents. Most of them arrived between 1990 and 2001 when...

The number of new houses completed last year rose by 10 percent to more than 80 thousand.

Unemployment among non-western foreigners in the Netherlands hardly rose in 2005. For native Dutch people, too, unemployment remained at about the same level.

Greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands were more than 6.5 percent lower in 2011 than in 2010. This was caused by a decrease in energy consumption of nearly 7 percent.

Total assets of Dutch pension funds and insurance companies amounted to 865 billion euro at the end of 2004. This is 82 billion more than in 2003. Holdings of foreign securities in particular rose....

The number of people claiming income support in the Netherlands remained fairly stable in 2004. The number of people receiving unemployment benefit did increase, but the rise has slowed down...

The Dutch economy is becoming more and more environmentally sustainable.

Nearly 1.1 billion euro was spent on private education in the Netherlands in 2006. Spending on private education grew more rapidly than spending on subsidised education.