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1,940 Dutch residents – mainly women – are one hundred years or older.

The number of solar panels installed in the Netherlands has grown further in 2011. Total capacity was raised by 40 megawatts, i.e. twice as much as in 2010.

Compared with other countries in Europe, in the Netherlands hospital admissions are relatively short: less than two days to have a baby and less than six days for an acute heart attack. The number of...

Latest figures on distribution of well-being ‘here and now’. How is well-being distributed in terms of society? Well-being includes people having opportunities to participate in society and living in...

Guests in leisure accommodations; by country of residence and region Regions; province and tourist region

The labour participation rate for Dutch women is the highest in the European Union (EU).

With 418 and 336 million kg respectively, last year was a bumper year for apples and pears. The apple harvest per capita exceeded 25 kilogrammes (kg).

Transport of passengers and goods through Dutch airports continued to grow in 2007.

Since 1 January 2014, people from Bulgaria and Romania no longer need a work permit if they want to work in the Netherlands. As a result, the number of Bulgarian and Romanian job-seekers coming to...

The Netherlands has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 4 percent a year in the period 2008-2010 relative to the Kyoto base year, whereas the target is 6 percent. So emissions have to...

The proportion of obese people in the Dutch population has doubled within the last two decades, but is still below the average level across the OECD countries. At the same time, health care...

Ninety percent of goods loaded on to road vehicles, inland vessels or trains in the Netherlands are subsequently transported across a distance of less than 300 kilometres. The shorter the road...

In the period 2014-2016, six percent of companies employing more than 50 people moved some of their business operations abroad.

Labour costs in the Dutch private sector have risen at the same rate over the past decade as the average across the entire European Union. Between 2001 and 2011 Dutch labour costs per hour worked in...

The number of holidaymakers aged 55 and older has risen from 2.8 million in 2002 to 3.5 million in 2012 as the post-war baby boomer generation is ageing. These over-55s tend to go on holiday more...

The cultivation area for sugar beets in the Netherlands grew by 21 percent in just one year.

In 2016, Bonaire received around 136 thousand tourists arriving by air.

CBS has calculated annually produced e-waste quantities for all European countries