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The economic crisis pushed up unemployment in the Netherlands to 4.8 percent in 2009. This is still very low compared with the towering levels in the 1930s.

One in six couples who married around 1970 were divorced 20 years later. The ratio for couples married in the early 1990s will be one in four.

Although the Dutch have a reputation of being heavy drinkers, they are in fact not: nearly nowhere in Europe do people drink as little as in the Netherlands.

This year marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Since 1899, CBS has been the principal supplier of trustworthy, unbiased statistics in and about the Netherlands.

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