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Dutch potato farmers expect to lift more than 5 billion kilos of ware and seed potatoes in 2004, 11 percent more than in 2003. In 2003 the potato crop was substantially smaller because of the dry...

Most Dutch are happy. Increased happiness perceptions are related to good health and a good relationship.

Steady growth consumer spending

The total quantity of nitrogen compounds in surface water declined by 45 percent between 1990 and 2021, from 158 million kilograms of nitrogen (N) to 87 million kilograms.

How much greenhouse gas does the transport sector emit?

Climate change mitigation expenditure by central government increased from 900 million euros in 2007 to more than 1.1 billion euros in 2015.

Romanians have the smallest dwelling space with one room per persoon. Dutch dwellings have 1.9 rooms p.p.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has given its website a fresh new look

ICT has had a positive effect on the Dutch economy between 2000 and December 2010. Firms became more productive in sectors where ICT is used intensively.

Young adults whose parents had been crime suspects were more often heard by the police than their peers.

Statistics Netherlands announced today that the volume of investment in tangible fixed assets was 0.4 percent lower in November 2014 than in November 2013. The modest decrease is mainly caused by...

Last year, 25 strikes were organized in the Netherlands. The number of lost working days involved was the lowest since 1985.

Some nine out of ten people aged over 75 in the Netherlands consulted their general practitioner at least once in 2008.

Single men spend their money on other things than single women. Men spend more on cars, eating out and gadgets, while women spend more on clothes, personal care and fruit and vegetables.

Despite having paid jobs, 370 thousand households in the Netherlands were living below the poverty line in 2009.

In 2009, generation of renewable electricity has risen to nearly 9 percent of total domestic electricity consumption. The objective of the Dutch government was to raise the share of renewable energy...

In 2006, Dutch companies generated nearly 11 percent of their turnover through e-commerce.

Energy consumption was more than 7 percent higher in 2010 than in 2009. Annual energy consumption has never been this high.

Value added tax was introduced in the Netherlands in 1969. In that year it generated just over 2.5 billion euro in revenue; nearly 40 years later VAT revenue amounted to nearly 43 billion euro.

What is well-being ‘later’? Well-being ‘later’ concerns resources that future generations need to achieve the same level of well-being as the present generation.

Inflation on Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba has hovered around zero percent for nearly two years.

Statistics Netherlands reports today that the retail sector achieved a 4.7 percent turnover growth in June relative to June 2014, the highest growth rate since July 2008.