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In January 2011, seasonally adjusted unemployment in the Netherlands stood at 398 thousand, a decline by 3 thousand relative to December 2010. Unemployment has been in decline for almost a year now.

In the last months of 2010, selling prices of manufactured goods and consumer prices were rising. If producers’ and consumers’ expectations prove to be true, prices will rise further in the months to...

According to the most recent figures, unemployment adjusted for seasonal variation was 398 thousand in January 2011, i.e. 5.1 percent of the labour force.

Statistics Netherlands has placed an increasing number of interactive graphs on its website in the last few years. The design of Business Cycle Tracer has been altered somewhat, so that it is more in...

The Dutch terms of trade of imported and exported goods deteriorated in December 2010 compared with December 2009. Prices of imported goods were 10.5 percent higher, prices of exported goods rose by...

In the fourth quarter of this year, retail sales were 1.0 percent higher than in the same period in 2009. Retail prices were 1.5 percent higher than last year.

The volume of exports of goods was more than 11 percent higher in December 2010 than twelve months previously. In November exports grew by nearly 9 percent.

There were 130 thousand unfilled job vacancies by the end of last year.

Dutch economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2010 was 2.4 percent compared with the same period in the previous year.

The number of job vacancies increased marginally. At the end of December, 130 thousand jobs were vacant, i.e. 4 thousand more than at the end of September. The private sector accounted for the...

Following the outbreak of the credit crisis in autumn 2008, Dutch terms of trade initially improved considerably. In the course of 2009, however, they started to deteriorate.

The number of jobs of employees was 25 thousand higher in the fourth quarter of 2010 than in the fourth quarter of 2009. Following one and a half years of decrease, for the first time employment was...

The Dutch economy was in far better shape in 2010 than in 2009. Economic growth was 1.7 percent, following an unprecedented 3.9 percent decrease in 2009. Dutch exports of goods and services grew by...

The Dutch economy grew by 2.4 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the same period in 2009, versus 1.8 percent in the third quarter compared to last year’s third quarter.

January’s inflation rate has climbed to 2.0 percent whereas in December, consumer prices were on average 1.9 percent higher than one year previously.

Dutch inflation rose marginally in January to 2.0 percent, an increase by 0.1 of a percentage point compared to December.

In January this year, 490 businesses and institutions (excluding one-man businesses) in the Netherlands were declared bankrupt.

The average daily output of Dutch manufacturing industry was 5 percent higher in December 2010 than in December 2009. Output growth was nearly equal to October and November. Although manufacturing...

Manufacturers realised a 15 percent turnover increase in December 2010 compared to the same month in 2009. This growth rate is marginally down on November, when turnover increased by 16 percent.

Last year, 9.6 thousand bankruptcies were filed, i.e. 9 percent fewer than in 2009.

Retail turnover was 5 percent higher in November 2010 than in November 2009, the most substantial growth in two years.

The Dutch long-term interest rate, based on the return of the most recent ten-year government loan, averaged 3.2 percent in January 2011. The rate is virtually unchanged from December 2010, following...

Factory gate prices in Dutch manufacturing industry were almost 11 percent higher in December than in December 2009. In November, prices rose by over 9 percent compared with one year previously.