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The disposable income of Dutch households rose by nearly 4 percent in 2006.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports that container transhipment in Dutch sea ports has risen by 9 percent in 2014.

Prices of crude oil, natural gas and coal were significantly higher in 2011 than in 2010. The price increase is partly caused by the rising global demand for energy, the Japan earthquake in 2011 and...

Inflation in the Netherlands fell to 0.9 percent in September. In August it was still 1 percent.

Some 80 thousand students in Dutch senior general secondary education (havo) and pre-university education (vwo) are sitting their final exams this month. In the past few years, around nine out of ten...

The drowning rate is higher among children from non-western countries who recently immigrated to the Netherlands than among native Dutch children.

In the first four weeks of 2009, mortality among the older population was more than one thousand higher than in the preceding years.

The birth rate has declined further to 172 thousand between June 2012 and May 2013, i.e. a decrease by 6.4 thousand relative to the same period one year previously.

There are more than 5 thousand neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. In nearly one third, the the proportion of long-term low incomes is above the nationwide average of 3 percent.

Many voters in the Netherlands use the possibility of voting by proxy. In the 2010 Lower Chamber elections, 8 percent of voters had authorised someone else to vote for them.

The inflation rate did not change in September 2005. Just as in August consumer prices were 1.8 percent higher than the year before.

The population of the Netherlands increased by 83 thousand persons from mid 2009 to mid 2010.

Last year, 12.5 million Dutch went on holiday at least once. Fewer and fewer people go on holiday without having made prior arrangements.

On 1 May 2006, some 241 thousand people in the Netherlands were not insured for the costs of medical care. This 1.5 percent of the Dutch population.

Today, Statistics Netherlands announced that the Dutch inflation rate was 0.8 percent in May. After going up in April, the rate is now back at the level of March. Cheaper holidays and food products...

Since the introduction of adoption legislation in 1956, more than 55 thousand children have been adopted in the Netherlands.