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On 14 March 2023, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) organised a Green Deal Workshop to focus on key issues such as climate change, energy, the environment and nature and their associated challenges and...

On 27 February 2020, the first patient testing positive for coronavirus was reported in the Netherlands; the first COVID death was reported on 6 March.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere.

The price of energy, which has risen sharply over the past year, is in the news every day.

Across the world, there is an increasing need for information on climate change and energy transition, environmental quality and circularity, and nature and biodiversity.

How does economic growth in the Netherlands affect well-being in poorer countries in the Global South?

Some 90% of all the products traded around the world are transported by ship.

At the request of the Dutch Cabinet, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) publishes the Monitor of Well-being & the Sustainable Development Goals annually on Accountability Day (May).

On 31 August 2022 Liesje Schreinemacher, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, was presented with the new Statistics Netherlands (CBS) publication ‘Dutch Trade in Facts...

It sounds like science fiction: a ‘digital twin’ of society that policy-makers can use to resolve complex social problems.

Just recently, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) was the subject of an official Peer review, executed by the European Statistical System (ESS).

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is constantly looking for new methods and techniques to meet the steadily growing demand for statistical information.

Governments are using artificial intelligence (AI) on an ever-increasing scale and for diverse purposes, from streamlining traffic flows to tackling complex social challenges such as the energy...

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has worked step-by-step towards a new application landscape in recent years.

It’s hard to remember a time before unmanned aircraft – drones – took to the skies.

On 18 January 2022, Eduardo Villamor Martinez obtained his PhD cum laude from Maastricht University.

How do the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the circular economy interact with each other?

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has recently been working on a new classification according to origin for migrants in the Netherlands and for migrant children who were born in the Netherlands.

The COVID-19 crisis has brought with it a great need for reliable data, and national statistical offices (NSOs) are playing an important role in this regard.

A new edition of ‘Trends in the Caribbean Netherlands’ has been published today, 6 December 2021.

On Wednesday 20 October 2021, Professor Frank Pijpers gave his inaugural lecture on Empirical explorations of a complex society at the University of Amsterdam.

Pipelines are becoming a key form of transport.

The Dutch economy relies to a great extent on multinationals and large companies which operate worldwide.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) asked a committee of independent scientific experts to investigate external researchers’ use of remote access to consult CBS’ databases.

‘A breakthrough in how we think about bias’ – that is how professor Jaap van den Herik at Leiden University described Statistics Netherlands (CBS) researcher Quinten Meertens’ PhD thesis...