The Rise of Young Adults Living at Home: Statistics Show Increase in 18-30 Year Olds Living with Parents

The Rise of Young Adults Living at Home: Statistics Show Increase in 18-30 Year Olds Living with Parents

NOSE Helen Kret NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 02:22 More and more young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 are still living at home. This is evident from figures from Statistics Netherlands. At the beginning of this year, 46 percent of young people in that age group lived with their parents. Twenty years ago this was … Read more

Dutch Population Growth and Demographic Trends: Insights from Statistics Netherlands 2023-2070 Population Forecast

Dutch Population Growth and Demographic Trends: Insights from Statistics Netherlands 2023-2070 Population Forecast

ANP NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 01:29 The Dutch population continues to grow, but less rapidly than in recent years. The Netherlands is expected to have 18 million inhabitants in the coming year and will reach 19 million in 2037. Statistics Netherlands reports this on the basis of the Population Forecast 2023-2070. Population growth is mainly due to … Read more

The salary difference between men and women continues to decline, but the gap remains

The salary difference between men and women continues to decline, but the gap remains

NOS / Bart Kamphuis NOS News•today, 10:45 The difference between what men and women earn has become smaller again. However, the wage difference remains large in the business community, according to new figures from the Netherlands Institute for Economic Policy Analysis Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) about hourly wages in 2022. In the business world, … Read more

Decline in Office Building Transformations for Homes: A Look at the Latest Statistics

Decline in Office Building Transformations for Homes: A Look at the Latest Statistics

ANvacant office building NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 10:39 The number of homes created by converting office buildings has decreased again. Last year, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics more than 3,000 homes by transforming office buildings, which is 30 percent less than in 2021. Office buildings that are attractive for transformation into homes have largely already … Read more

The largest decline in purchasing power in 40 years due to high inflation: Statistics Netherlands

The largest decline in purchasing power in 40 years due to high inflation: Statistics Netherlands

ANP NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 01:35 The purchasing power of the Dutch population fell by 1.2 percent last year. This is the largest decline in forty years, according to figures from Statistics Netherlands. The decline is mainly the result of high inflation in the past year. Only during the severe recession in the 1980s and the years … Read more

Rising Number of International Students in Utrecht Raises Concerns

Rising Number of International Students in Utrecht Raises Concerns

ANPStudents in Utrecht NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 09:10 In the past academic year, almost 123,000 international students completed a higher vocational education or university course in the Netherlands. That is an increase of 8,000 compared to the previous year. These students represent 15 percent of all students in higher education, reports CBS. The vast majority came from … Read more

The Dutch Car and Motorcycle Industry Sees Over 33 Percent Turnover Increase: Insights from CBS

The Dutch Car and Motorcycle Industry Sees Over 33 Percent Turnover Increase: Insights from CBS

ANPArchive photo of a car showroom NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 07:01 The Dutch car and motorcycle industry has had a good few months. In the second quarter of this year, the sector had a turnover increase of more than 33 percent compared to the same period last year. This has been calculated by the Central Bureau of … Read more

The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism in the Netherlands: Keukenhof and Decreased Hotel Stays

The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism in the Netherlands: Keukenhof and Decreased Hotel Stays

ANPEA tourist at Keukenhof NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 00:00 Tourism spending in the Netherlands has not yet returned to pre-corona levels. According to Statistics Netherlands, the share of tourism in the Dutch economy is still lower than in 2019. “The economy as a whole is back to pre-corona levels, but tourism is not,” says Peter Hein van … Read more

The Impact of Rising Gas Prices on Gas Consumption in the Netherlands

The Impact of Rising Gas Prices on Gas Consumption in the Netherlands

NOSDowing to rising gas prices, households are less likely to turn on the heating NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 00:01 Gas consumption in the Netherlands has fallen again. Consumption in the first half of this year was 10 percent lower than in the same period a year ago. Industry, power stations and households in particular consumed less natural … Read more