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More than 10.5 thousand bankruptcies were filed in 2009, the highest number ever in the span of one year. The bankruptcy rate was particularly high in the first six months of 2009. Overall, the...

More and more women, in particular the youngest generations, participate on the labour market. As a result of this development, the distribution of working hours between partners has also changed....

In the second quarter of this year, the number of jobs of employees declined by 72 thousand relative to the second quarter of 2008.

These are a few of the main conclusions of the annual education report Jaarboek onderwijs in cijfers 2012.

Last year, 650 people died in traffic accidents in the Netherlands, i.e. 11 fewer than in 2011. The number of traffic fatalities has dropped by 19.9 percent relative to 2006. The traffic death toll...

The production of potatoes was substantially lower last year than in 2002. The total potato crop was 6.5 billion kilos in 2003, one eighth lower than in 2002. Arable farmers lifted less than 41...

An average of 430 thousand persons were unemployed in the period November 2009-January 2010, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force.

In the first nine months of 2009 there were fewer marriages than the year before. In 2009 as a whole there will be about 72 thousand marriages, 3.5 thousand less than in 2008. This decrease has to do...

In January 2007, inflation in the Netherlands was 1.4 percent. The rate was higher than in December, when prices were 1.1 percent up on one year previously, as the consumer price index.

The national debt amounted to nearly 254 billion euro by the end of last year, 2 billion euro down on the end of 2006.

Immigration increased over the past quarter, in particular immigrants from the new EU member states Bulgaria and Romania came to the Netherlands.

The volume of domestic consumption was 0.7 percent smaller in February 2004 than in February 2003. This was the twelfth month in a row that consumption expenditure was lower than twelve months...

There were 25 strike actions in the Netherlands last year; 10 thousand employees were involved and altogether 41 thousand working days were lost. The number of labour disputes last year was just...

The Dutch economy grew by 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2010 relative to the same quarter in 2009.

In the first six months of 2007, the number of people living in the Netherlands grew by nearly 15 thousand.

Last year, 791 people were killed on Dutch roads.

Dutch inflation was down to 1.5 percent in July 2007.

Water production and use of ground water, dune water, infiltration water and surface water (for drinking water or semi - filtrate water) by region

In the first quarter of 2004 the total assets of pension funds and insurance companies rose by 46 billion euro to 829 billion euro. On balance the value of shares rose by more than 24 billion euro,...

In 2006, one in forty people in the Netherlands lived in areas where the concentration of fine particles in the air was too high. High concentrations of fine particles can damage people’s health.