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Relative to 2021, the total area under organic farming in the Netherlands this year has increased by 3.6 percent to slightly over 80 thousand hectares. This is 59.0 percent more than in 2015.

Agricultural census; crops, livestock, land use and corresponding number of holdings by general farm type and region

To ensure that everyone can share in the combination that the earth offers and the prosperity it can generate, and to ensure that the quality of life is improved for as many people as possible, the...

Across the world, there is an increasing need for information on climate change and energy transition, environmental quality and circularity, and nature and biodiversity.

The majority (79 percent) of businesses have implemented measures this year to make their operations more sustainable.

In 2021, most types of agricultural emissions were lower than in 1995, in spite of higher agricultural output. Reduction of greenhouse gas and nitrogen emissions has stagnated in recent years.

Quality of life in the Netherlands today, well-being ‘here and now’, is high. However it not just as high for everybody in the country; well-being of young adults is lower than for the rest of the...

Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius are on the right track in terms of poverty reduction, one of the internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In 2022, renewable energy accounted for 15 percent of gross national energy consumption. This was still 13 percent in the previous year.

Milk supply by dairy farms, production of butter, cheese, milk powder, concentrated milk and whey powder

How is well-being in the Netherlands developing? The Monitor of Well-being & the SDG’s 2022 examines the economic, ecological and social aspects of well-being in the Netherlands and the results for...

At the request of the Dutch Cabinet, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) publishes the Monitor of Well-being & the Sustainable Development Goals annually on Accountability Day (May).

Since 1995, the volume of Dutch agricultural production has grown by 20 percent. Nevertheless, there was no increase in the agricultural consumption of environmentally harmful substances such as...

Second measurement of the Netherlands' progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The results of a study into the SDGs and the circular economy, about how these different perspectives can influence each other positively or negativelyare

Renewable energy; final consumption energy sources/techniques, energy application

Production and capacity of renewable energy Hydro power, wind energy, solar energy, biomass

The size of the organic farming sector increased again in 2018.

People in the Netherlands with low levels of education and those with a migration background have lower levels of well-being than those with higher education and those without a migration background.

Tap water use, groundwater, surface water, industries, private household. Water use or abstraction by industry and type of water

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) developed a Material Flow Monitor (MFM) that captures national resource extraction, imports and exports, product flows between economic sectors, as well as emissions and...

In 2022, the agricultural area devoted to arable crop farming has increased by 10.5 thousand hectares (2.0 percent) to 536 thousand ha.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has made plans for the future based on discussions with stakeholders. The results are described in this Multi-annual Programme for 2024-2028.

Renewable energy; avoided use of fossil energy energy sources/techniques, energy application