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The tourism sector is becoming ever more important to the Dutch economy.

According to figures released by Statistics Netherlands today, Dutch consumer spending on goods and services was up by 1.9 percent in March 2015 on the same month last year. Consumers spent more on...

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, business confidence, the indicator reflecting the mood in the Dutch private sector was higher than in the third quarter.

The importance of exports has increased substantially in the period 2010-2013. In 2013, exports contributed 32.4 percent to the GDP, i.e. 3 percentage points more than in 2010.

In the first quarter of 2006 there were 35 thousand more jobs than in the last quarter of 2005.

Changes, indices, shares, value of consumption of households and actual individual consumption of households by type of goods and services;

Dutch economic growth in the third quarter of 2010 reached 1.8 percent compared to the same quarter of 2009.

According to the latest consumer price index the Dutch inflation rate reached 1.7 percent in December 2003. This is the lowest level since 1998. In November the inflation rate was 2.0 percent. The...

Last year, national spending on health care and welfare totalled 79 billion euro, a 6.2 percent increase on 2007.

Cities and clusters are important from an economical point of view. According to various national and international studies, agglomeration economies mean that businesses in urban areas and clusters...

According to figures released by Statistics Netherlands today, household spending on goods and services was 0.5 percent  up in December 2014 from December 2013.

Goods and services exported to EU countries generated 140 billion euros and accounted for 1.4 million FTEs in 2013. This is one fifth of GDP and employment in the Netherlands.

Dutch economy improved 2.4 percent in the second quarter of 2007 relative to one year previously.

Tthe Dutch economy grew by 1.1 percent in the third quarter of 2011 compared with same quarter last year.

The share of employees in the Netherlands who say they want to work until they reach the age of 65 years has doubled in the space of four years: from 21 percent in 2005 to 42 percent in 2009

Employees are increasingly less concerned about retaining their jobs; 24% in 2016 and as much as 34% in 2013.

The publication of data about the specialisation of Dutch exports in commodities in relation to the exports of the EU (without the Netherlands).

Over the past three months, more people in the Netherlands who were not actively looking on the labour market have begun seeking employment, but often without success. The number of people in the...

Health care and welfare cost nearly 60 billion euro in 2004. This is 4.3 percent more than 2003. Spending on care still rose by as much 10 percent annually in the period 2001-2003. The decrease in...

In 2007, total spending on care, i.e. health care plus welfare services, amounted to 74 billion euro, a 5.1 percent increase relative to 2006.

According to the first provisional estimate, the Dutch economy shrank by 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period last year.

1088 people were killed in traffic in the Netherlands in 2003 and 1066 in 2002. In the summer months of 2003 the number of traffic deaths increased substantially, but in the fourth quarter it fell. A...

According to figures released by Statistics Netherlands today, Dutch consumer spending on goods and services was up by 1.1 percent in May 2015 on the same month last year. Consumers spent more on...