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

On 1 January 2024, the population of the Caribbean Netherlands stood at 30,397.

More than 75 thousand women became mothers for the first time in 2023.

The number of older people in the Netherlands will increase in the future, regardless of the scale of migration.

A brief explanation of why CBS compiles the Monitor of Well-being and the SDGs, what well-being is and how well-being is measured.

The Netherlands in numbers (2021 edition) answers 36 questions about our country by means of images and text.

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Population forecast, Caribbean Netherlands 2024-2050 Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has compiled a new population forecast for the municipalities of the Caribbean Netherlands

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) regularly asks Dutch people to participate in one of its surveys. A survey is conducted by random sampling. This video explains what this entails. Would you like to know...

This report describes the development, estimation and validation of indicators for a bio-based economy. First a Bio Flow Monitor (BFM) dataset is compiled. From this dataset indicators related to...

This article explains in more detail the latest estimate of the illegal economy for reporting year 2021. Special attention is paid to the difference between income generated within the Dutch borders...

Between January and July 2023, the Netherlands imported almost 70 billion euros in goods from China. That is nearly 5 billion euros less than in the same period last year.

While in past decades censuses were held every ten years, under legislation currently being drafted, after 2024, the census is set to be held on an annual basis and the number of variables on which...

In 2023, the import value of Chinese goods was nearly 17 percent lower than in 2022.

Dutch gross domestic product (GDP) per capita was in 2023 nearly 58 thousand euros.

At the end of 2021, 87 thousand labour migrants from countries outside the European Union or European Free Trade Association (Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland and Sweden) were residing in the...

A one-way journey from a worker’s residence to their employer's permanent address was 32 minutes on average in 2023, according to survey respondents.

In 2023, 48 percent of electricity was generated from renewable sources such as solar, wind and water.

There were 745.5 thousand EU nationals from other EU countries living in the Netherlands on 1 January 2024.

Turnover in the accommodation and food services sector was up by 8.1 percent in Q1 2024, year on year.

Labour productivity in the market sector increased by 1.0 percent year-on-year in 2022. A year earlier, labour productivity still improved by 4.3 percent.

The Netherlands is the second-largest importer and exporter of goods in the European Union, after Germany.

In 2022, energy production from solar panels rose by 46 percent on the previous year. This was mainly due to the use of new solar panels.

Seasonally adjusted turnover in the accommodation and food services sector rosy by 4.5 percent in Q2 2023 relative to Q1 2023.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) recently released a new handbook, ‘Synthetic Data for Official Statistics’, to help get statistical institutes started in producing their own...