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The number of native British people who moved to the Netherlands from the UK rose again in 2019, while the number of native Dutch people migrating to the UK declined further.

Over the past few years, the United States and the European Union have imposed import tariffs on parts of each other’s exports in several rounds, most recently last month. The additional EU import...

The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.6 percent higher in January than in the same month last year.

Dutch retail sector achieved 2.6 percent year-on-year turnover growth in November 2019. The volume of sales increased by 1.4 percent.

Agricultural exports amounted to an estimated 94.5 billion euros in 2019. This is 4.6 percent more than in 2018 and the highest level on record.

In December 2020, there were 368 thousand unemployed, equivalent to 3.9 percent of the labour force.

Aviation in 2020

In 2019, the Netherlands received 22.5 thousand asylum seekers and 4.2 thousand following family members. The total is marginally lower than in 2018. Syrians and Eritreans still constitute the...

Consumer prices on Bonaire were 2.2 percent up year-on-year in Q4 2019.

In Q3 2019, Dutch consumers purchased 455 million euros worth of products from foreign EU webshops.

For the first time since April 2020, Dutch manufacturers are positive again.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 27 percent higher in December than in the same month last year.

In 2020 the Dutch retail sector achieved 5.9 percent year-on-year turnover growth, the second-highest growth rate recorded this century. However, due to the measures against the spread of...

In December 2019, prices of owner-occupied dwellings (excluding new constructions) were on average 6.5 percent higher than in the same month one year previously.

The total volume of goods exports grew by 4.1 percent in November year-on-year. Growth was lower than in the previous month.

In January 2020 the passenger car fleet in the Netherlands stood at almost 8.7 million; this represented a faster growth rate than of the population aged 18 and over.

In May 2021, 309 thousand people were unemployed. This is 3.3 percent of the labour force.

The economic situation according to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer has become slightly more unfavourable in January.

The consumer price index (CPI) was 1.8 percent higher in February than in the same month last year.

In 2020, nearly 183 thousand air passengers travelled to and from the airports of the Caribbean Netherlands.

In 2019, the population of the Netherlands grew by an estimated 132 thousand people to a total of over 17.4 million.

In 2019, the total amount borrowed by former and current students in the Netherlands stood at 19.3 billion euros, i.e. 1.9 billion more than in the previous year. Total student debt is increasing...

The number of unemployed has increased by 7 thousand per month on average over a period of three months, reaching a total number of 321 thousand in August 2019

Despite the coronavirus crisis, Dutch agricultural exports grew by an estimated 1 percent in 2020 relative to the previous year.

In Q2 2020, the youth labour participation rate fell from 65.9 to 60.3 percent, returning to the level of Q1 2016.