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In 2017, 199 million tonnes of goods were transported by road from and to the Netherlands. This is an increase of 4.3 percent on the previous year.

In 2014, 1,835 inhabitants of the Netherlands ended their own lives, on average five per day. The suicide rate did not go up for the first time in years. Six in ten people who committed suicide were...

During the last winter period, mortality was higher than in the winter of 2013/’14. Mortality among over-80s was distinctly higher, also in comparison to previous winters.

In the period 2004-2005, perinatal mortality in children of people with a non-western background belonging to the first generation had grown by more than half compared to children of native Dutch...

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) follows the Europeasn definition of an enterprise.

By the end of 2011, there were 34 thousand underage children who had lost one of their parents and 330 who had lost both parents. Each year, more than 6 thousand underage children are (semi-)orphaned.

Immigration increased over the past quarter, in particular immigrants from the new EU member states Bulgaria and Romania came to the Netherlands.

Dutch consumption of renewable energy levelled off in 2007.

The police spent more than 2.4 billion euro in 2009 on investigation activities, i.e. an increase by 12 percent relative to 2005. The police registered a 7 percent increase in offences from 2005, but...

Nearly 1 in 5 adults born 1971-1991 did not live with both parents during childhood.Three-quarters went through parental divorce. Over 4 in 10 describe their stepfather as their father, 2 in 10 are...

Saba's population grew by 6 percent between 2011 and 2015 to 1.9 thousand residents.

On 1 October 2014, there were nearly 2.2 thousand people in the Netherlands aged 100 years or older, i.e. more than twice as many as on 1 January 2000. The number of centenarians is likely to have...

The suicide rate has grown dramatically over the past five years, in particular among people with a western background and native Dutch. The suicide rate remained stable at a low level among people...

The greying of the population will reach its peak in just over 30 years.

The Dutch population numbered 16.3 million people on 1 January 2004, bringing population growth in 2003 to 62 thousand. This is the lowest rate of population growth in twenty years. The decrease in...

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.

Because of the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud, the number of air passengers passing through Dutch airports was much lower in April this year than in the same month last year. The cloud also tempered...