Search results

“You can only govern a country, if you know the figures”, is a slogan used by Statistics Netherlands. The slogan also applies to the islands of Bonaire, Saint. Eustatius and Saba,...

According to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation has improved further in November.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.1 percent higher in May 2017 than in May 2016.

The Dutch consumer price index (CPI) slipped to 1.1 percent in March.

Inflation rate climbs

Internal and external networks, ICT applications, ADE, SCM, RFID Sector of Industry (SIC 2008)

The number of cheese shops has risen by over one-quarter over the past ten years.

Is the ubiquitous vacancy of retail space reflected in its property price developments? And how have the prices of office buildings developed since the credit crisis?

Inflation rate stable at 0 percent in May

Persons employed, labour force, unemployment broken down by personal features (age, level of education, origin) and sex

According to the consumer price index (CPI), the inflation rate in the Netherlands was 0.6 percent in February. In January consumer prices were also 0.6 percent up from one year previously.

Statistics Netherlands reports today that retail turnover was 1.4 percent down in August 2015 from the same month last year. The decline is partly due to the fact that the shopping-day pattern was...

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported today that retail turnover grew faster in April 2015 than in the same month last year. The volume of retail sales increased for the fifth month in a row (by 2.6...

On average, people in the Netherlands live 0.9 kilometres from their nearest supermarket. Eight out of ten Dutch people have at least one supermarket within a kilometre of their home.

In May 2015 retail turnover was 1.3 percent down from the same month last year. The volume of sales shrank by 0.4 percent, retail prices were 0.9 percent down. The less favourable shopping-day...

More and more Dutch consumers are shopping online. This spring, nearly three-quarters of the 11.8 million internet users in the Netherlands said they had purchased a product online.

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...

By the end of 2011, there were 34 thousand underage children who had lost one of their parents and 330 who had lost both parents. Each year, more than 6 thousand underage children are (semi-)orphaned.

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...

Young workers on Bonaire often have full-time jobs, similar to the over-25s.

According to figures released today, 630 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed in November.

The Dutch economy shrank by 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared with the same quarter in the previous year.

According to figures released by Eurostat on Friday, the economies in the eurozone and the EU grew by 0.2 and 0.3 percent respectively in the third quarter compared with the previous quarter....

After four years of decline, the purchasing power of the Dutch population improved by 1.5 percent in 2014. All population groups saw their spending power rise in a period of slow economic recovery....