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Manufacturing output was nearly 20 times higher in 2023 than it was 100 years ago.

Employed labour force Sex, characteristics, economic activities

Sector accounts; key figures Most important figures of institutional sectors

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) celebrates its 125th anniversary this month.

Employed persons, jobs, full-time equivalents (fte), hours worked Economic activity, sex, employees and self-employed persons

Using 15 indicators, CBS reviews the past decade: the 2010s.

In mid-year 2019, the Netherlands’ gross debt ratio – government debt as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) – amounted to 50.9 percent of GDP.

The passenger car fleet has increased from 41 thousand in 1927 to 8.5 million in 2019, i.e. over 200 times. This is inter alia due to population growth, rising incomes and more commuter traffic.

In 2018, a total of 4,628 people in the Netherlands died due to an accidental fall, nearly 600 more than in the previous year. This comes down to 13 fatal falls per day on average.

In 2018, the average height of Dutch men aged 20 years and over stood at 1.81 metres; for women the average height was 1.67 metres. Since 1981, the average body height has increased by 3.8 cm for men...

The share of grazing cattle increased again last year, with 71 percent of the dairy herd grazing outdoors against 65 percent in 2016.

Dutch passenger vehicles covered a record distance of 121.4 bn km in 2018, an increase of 1.2 percent on 2017. This was mainly on account of business-owned vehicles. Diesel mileage declined again...

The largest gas field in Europe was discovered near Slochteren (Groningen) on 29 May 1959, this gave natural gas a vital role in the Dutch energy supply.

This report presents the newly developed method for measuring economic indicators on the circular economy, furthermore it presents the first results for the period 2001-2016.

Dutch vehicle traffic reached unprecedented levels in 2017. The total annual mileage by road users including passenger cars, delivery vans, heavy goods vehicles and buses amounted to 147.6 billion...

The Netherlands ten years after the onset of the global credit crisis. Developments in unemployment, GDP, labour participation, housing market, social assistance benefits, debt liabilities and other...

In 2017, 64.4 thousand marriages were contracted and 17.9 thousand civil partnerships were registered in the Netherlands.

Price indices, number sold, changes and average purchase prices of existing own homes by type of dwelling.

Economic valuation of activities related to the Dutch North Sea and coast is presented for the years 2005, 2010 and 2014

Around 13 million Dutch residents will be entitled to vote in the general election on 15 March 2017.

On average, 373 teenagers in the age category 10–20 annually died in the Netherlands in the past decade. Nearly half of them died from non-natural causes. Traffic accidents are the most common...

The disposable income of Dutch households was 33.2 thousand euro on average in 2010.

Some 2.4 million babies were born in the Netherlands in the period 1946–1955. Although births also peaked in other countries in western Europe after the war, until the mid 1950s the Dutch birth rate...

In crisis year 2009, the Dutch economy contracted more than ever before. The crisis was followed by a period of moderate growth (1.8 percent). The economy bounced back faster than in the early 1980s,...

The number of couples celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary reached a record high in 2010. This is related to the peak in marriages around 1970.