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The number of income support benefits paid to people younger than 65 years has risen for the third quarter in a row.

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Ten percent of large companies in the Netherlands moved business activities to another country in the period 2009-2011. Lower wage costs were an important factor in this respect

Last year, female life expectancy at birth was 82.3 years, as against 78.0 years for men. Life expectancy has risen dramatically since 2002.

Approximately one quarter of young people became victims of crime in 2012. Young men are more often victims of violent crimes than young women.

Trade and tourism consists of graphics on export of Dutch goods and services to the UK.

The Dutch government spent 270.3 billion euro in 2008. This is the equivalent of 45.5 percent of the Dutch gross domestic product (GDP).

In June 2004 turnover of the Dutch manufacturing industry was 13 percent up on June 2003. The increase in sales was mainly caused by two extra working days and higher selling prices.

Producers’ confidence in the manufacturing industry is 2.6 in December 2005. This means that manufacturing companies were almost just as positive as in November.

In the spring of 2010, 12 million people aged 12 to 75 years in the Netherlands said they regularly went online.

The first signs that students are at a higher risk of dropping out of school are already visible in the first year of secondary school. This is one of the conclusions of the PhD thesis “Early...

74 percent of Dutch households had a fast internet connection at home in 2007.

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The number of people in deprived dsitricts in the Netherlands claiming income support benefit for at least three years fell by relatively more in 2007 than average for the whole country.

According to figures from Statistics Netherlands, there were 108 thousand more jobs for employees in the Netherlands in the third quarter of 2008 than in the same quarter in 2007. This is an increase...

In 2007, mineral extraction contributed 17 billion euro (more than 3 percent) to the GDP. In recent years, the proportion has grown.

The Dutch provinces realised economic growth in 2010 after the 2009 slump.

One in five 18 to 64 year-old men in the Netherlands lived alone in 2010. For women this was just over one in six.