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Baby boomers push up pension spending
The Dutch government spent 15.8 billion euro on state old age pensions in the first half of 2011. This is 6 percent more than in the same period last year.
Further reduction greenhouse gas emissions
In 2007, greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands were reduced for the third consecutive year. The total emission volume amounted to 205 billion kg of CO2 equivalents, i.e. 4 percent below the...
Domestic biomass consumption
Biomass consumption decreased between 2000 and 2006, then increased in 2007 and 2008 partly due to increased imports of cereals, oleaginous products, food products and wood.
Substantial growth mobile Internet usage
In the spring of 2011, there were over six million mobile Internet users in the age category 12–75 in the Netherlands, exactly half of all 12 to 75-year-olds who indicated they used the Internet in...
Disposable household income falls again
Real disposable income of Dutch households was 1.1 percent lower in 2013 than in 2012. The decrease was smaller than in 2012, when disposable income fell by 2.2 percent. The decrease in 2013 was...
High profits on bonds
In the first nine months of 2010, the value of bonds increased by more than 23 billion euro. In this period, the value of newly issued bonds minus paid-off bonds was 27 billion euro.
Unemployment increases most rapidly in South Holland
Last year, unemployment increased in most provinces. The most substantial unemployment growth was recorded in South Holland.
Lower greenhouse gas emissions despite cold winter
Last year, greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands were nearly 1 percent below the level of 2011. The cold weather conditions in winter prompted consumers to use more natural gas for home...
How much greenhouse gas does the transport sector emit?
How much greenhouse gas does the transport sector emit?
Measuring internet economy on the international agenda
applying innovative big data research methods in a collaborative project with Google and Dataprovider
Nearly 10 million people on holiday during high season
Almost 10 million Dutch travelled to their holiday destination in the high season of 2016.
Statistics Netherlands visualises green growth
the results of ‘green growth’, based on the themes economic opportunities and natural resources.
What are the national accounts?
All macro-economic statistics are compiled within a coherent system: the national accounts.
House prices in Utrecht now also above pre-crisis level
prices of owner-occupied houses
Exports down
The volume of exports of goods was 2.8 percent down in May 2014 from May 2013. A decline of this magnitude has not occurred in the past four and a half years. In the months prior to the decline in...
Waste recycling
In the period 2000-2014, the percentage of recycled waste in the Netherlands fluctuated around 80 percent.
Fewer churchgoers, especially among Catholics
Church attendance is declining in the Netherlands. Catholics in particular have been going to church less in recent years. In spite of this, over half of the population say they belong to a religion...