Covid caused temporary dip in NL population growth
4 years ago

Covid caused temporary dip in NL population growth

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The Dutch population will continue to grow in the next 50 years, despite a dip this year caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Statistics Netherlands reported on Wednesday. This year, the Dutch population growth is expected to amount to 63 thousand more people living in the Netherlands than the start of the year. The lower growth is completely due to the coronavirus pandemic, which resulted in higher mortality and lower migration, the stats office said. In the coming decades, population growth will mainly be due to more people immigrating to the Netherlands than moving away, and because of the increasing lifespan.

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Netherlands will have 19 million residents in 2037, 20 million by 2058
1 week ago

Netherlands will have 19 million residents in 2037, 20 million by 2058

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The population of the Netherlands is projected to continue growing over the coming decades, albeit at a slower pace, according to new forecasts from Statistics Netherlands. The country is expected to reach 19 million residents in 2037 and 20 million by 2058, driven primarily by migration and increased life expectancy. CBS’s 2024-2070 population projections show that the current annual growth …

Dutch economic growth will pick up in coming years, inflation to stay higher than EU
1 week, 4 days ago

Dutch economic growth will pick up in coming years, inflation to stay higher than EU

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Economic growth in the Netherlands will pick up in the coming years growing 0.9 percent this year and 1.5 percent each in 2025 and 2026, despite an increasing threat from geopolitical uncertainty. The growth is mainly driven by household consumption and government spending, but the DNB also expects world trade to pick up and exports to contribute more to economic …

Dutch population must stay below 20 million, ministers say
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Dutch population must stay below 20 million, ministers say

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The right-wing Dutch government is looking at drawing up specific targets to limit immigration and ensure the population of the Netherlands remains below 20 million by 2050. Immigration minister Marjolein Faber and social affairs minister Eddy van Hijum told MPs in a briefing on Tuesday that the cabinet was embracing a report by the government’s demographic development commission which recommends …

Average Dutch 65-year-old can look forward to another 21 years of life
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Average Dutch 65-year-old can look forward to another 21 years of life

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People who turn 65 in 2030 will have an average of 20.96 years left to live, according to CBS. Life expectancy in 2030 falls slightly in the latest forecast compared to the previous forecast, in which it was set at exactly 21 years. Due to the higher mortality rate during the coronavirus pandemic, the life expectancy of 65-year-olds fell to …

Mortality excess persists in the Netherlands, death rates higher than before Covid-19
1 year, 2 months ago

Mortality excess persists in the Netherlands, death rates higher than before Covid-19

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Mortality in the Netherlands remains higher than before the years before the Covid-19 pandemic, Statistics Netherlands reported on Friday. CBS reported that the death count in this demographic was 11 percent higher than the expected mortality. The CBS reported earlier this year that deaths due to Covid-19 throughout the pandemic exceed the total excess mortality. CBS researcher Ruben van Gaalen …

Coronavirus pandemic slowed Dutch population growth
1 year, 10 months ago

Coronavirus pandemic slowed Dutch population growth

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The coronavirus pandemic slowed down the growth of the Dutch population. At one point, growth was halved because more people died than were born and because fewer people could move to the Netherlands, Statistics Netherlands reported. The whole world was in lockdown, and migration - the Netherlands’ primary source of population growth - came to a standstill. In a review …

Dutch economy grew 4.5% last year; Consumer spending at record high
1 year, 10 months ago

Dutch economy grew 4.5% last year; Consumer spending at record high

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The Dutch economy grew 4.5 percent last year, mainly thanks to more household consumption, Statistics Netherlands reported. Last year, 441,000 jobs were added to the job market, and the share of the Dutch population with paid work reached record heights. The added value of the culture, sports, recreation, and other services sector grew 34 percent last year. The Dutch economy …

Netherlands population to hit 20.7 million by 2070
2 years ago

Netherlands population to hit 20.7 million by 2070

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The population of the Netherlands will continue to grow over the next 50 years, mainly due to immigration and a longer lifespan. Over the past years, the Dutch population mainly grew through foreign migration, and that will likely remain the case, CBS expects. This is especially the case in the coming years - many older people died in the coronavirus …

Immigration drove significant population growth in Netherlands this year
2 years, 1 month ago

Immigration drove significant population growth in Netherlands this year

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The population of the Netherlands grew by 191,000 people in the first three quarters of 2022 to 17.8 million residents at the beginning of October. The population growth, which was over twice as high as in the same period last year, was mainly driven by immigration, Statistics Netherlands reported. Emigration was also higher than a year earlier, with 129,400 people …

Nearly 5,000 Covid-19 deaths in first half of 2022, bringing Dutch total towards 45,000
2 years, 2 months ago

Nearly 5,000 Covid-19 deaths in first half of 2022, bringing Dutch total towards 45,000

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A total of 1,420 people in the Netherlands died of Covid-19 in the second quarter, down from 3,564 coronavirus deaths in the first quarter of 2022. That brings the total number of confirmed Covid-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic to 44,760, Statistics Netherlands reported on Friday. The decrease is likely due to the high vaccination rate in the …

More NL residents leaving Randstad for smaller town life
2 years, 4 months ago

More NL residents leaving Randstad for smaller town life

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More and more Netherlands residents are leaving the Randstad to live elsewhere in the country. Last year, just over 75,000 people moved from the Randstad to a municipality outside it. In that year, just over 48,000 Randstad residents moved to a municipality elsewhere in the country. At the same time, the annual number of Netherlands residents who move to the …

Netherlands population numbers boosted by Ukrainian refugees
2 years, 4 months ago

Netherlands population numbers boosted by Ukrainian refugees

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The number of residents of the Netherlands grew strongly in the past six months. In the first half of 2022, the number of Netherlands residents increased by almost 120,000, Statistics Netherlands reported. That is nearly the same as the combined population growth in the first half of 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. About 195,200 people moved to the Netherlands in …

Covid-19 caused 8% of Netherlands deaths in first quarter
2 years, 4 months ago

Covid-19 caused 8% of Netherlands deaths in first quarter

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The coronavirus was still a common cause of death at the beginning of this year. In the first quarter of this year, 3,480 people in the Netherlands died of Covid-19, Statistics Netherlands calculated. Compared to the first quarter of 2021, the number of deaths attributable to the coronavirus was more than half lower at the beginning of this year. In …

Big cities to push Dutch population growth in coming years
2 years, 5 months ago

Big cities to push Dutch population growth in coming years

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It is especially in the large and medium-sized cities that the population will continue to grow in the coming years, according to researchers from Statistics Netherlands and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. The researchers expect almost 70 percent of the population growth to happen in municipalities with 100,000 inhabitants or more. “They are also a major attraction for immigrants, including …

People with low incomes 2.5 times more likely to die from Covid than the rich
2 years, 8 months ago

People with low incomes 2.5 times more likely to die from Covid than the rich

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People living in institutional care were the most vulnerable to dying from coronavirus during the first year of the pandemic, but in the population at large, people with low incomes were 2.5 times more likely to die than the highest income group, national statistics office CBS said on Tuesday. ‘People with low incomes die earlier than high earners for a …

People with low incomes 2.5 times more likely to die from Covid than the rich
2 years, 8 months ago

People with low incomes 2.5 times more likely to die from Covid than the rich

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People living in institutional care were the most vulnerable to dying from coronavirus during the first year of the pandemic, but in the population at large, people with low incomes were 2.5 times more likely to die than the highest income group, national statistics office CBS said on Tuesday. ‘People with low incomes die earlier than high earners for a …

Dutch economy grew more than gov't debt in 2021
2 years, 8 months ago

Dutch economy grew more than gov't debt in 2021

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Government debt amounted to 52.1 percent of gross domestic product last year, down from 54.3 percent. The Dutch government saw its income increase by 25 billion euros to 337 billion euros last year. People spent more in the second year of the coronavirus crisis than in 2020, which increased the government's VAT revenues by 6 billion euros. Non-tax revenues increased …

Dutch economy saw strongest growth in two decades
2 years, 10 months ago

Dutch economy saw strongest growth in two decades

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The Dutch economy grew by 4.8 percent last year - the strongest growth since 1998. The Dutch economy grew slightly in the last quarter of last year, despite the Omicron coronavirus wave and new lockdown measures. According to the stats office, the added value of the hospitality industry was still over 30 percent lower last year than in 2019. And …

Dutch Covid surge continues with 28,000 more infections; Hospital total rebounds
2 years, 11 months ago

Dutch Covid surge continues with 28,000 more infections; Hospital total rebounds

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An estimated 27,993 people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus between Sunday and Monday morning, the RIVM said. Another 1,310 residents of Rotterdam tested positive, bringing that city's average to 1,476, up 113 percent in a week. A total of 887 people tested positive in The Hague, roughly the same as the average there, which has doubled since last Monday. …

New Dutch Covid record set with 24,590 infections; Records in Amsterdam, Rotterdam
2 years, 11 months ago

New Dutch Covid record set with 24,590 infections; Records in Amsterdam, Rotterdam

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The Netherlands set a new record for the most coronavirus infections diagnosed in a single day. A total of 24,590 people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus between Tuesday and Wednesday morning, surpassing the previous record set on November 24 by about 800. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht showing sharp rise in infections Amsterdam surpassed a record it set on Tuesday for …

Dutch economy will grow by 3.6 percent next year: ING
3 years ago

Dutch economy will grow by 3.6 percent next year: ING

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The Dutch economy will grow by 3.6 percent in 2022 according to projections by ING. "This is the main risk in the growth forecasts, especially with the developments of new variants of the virus," said ING economist Marcel Klok. ING is projecting the Dutch economy to grow by more than 4 percent compared to 2019 levels. ING thinks inflation will …

Dutch economy back to pre-Covid level in 3rd quarter
3 years, 1 month ago

Dutch economy back to pre-Covid level in 3rd quarter

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The economy grew by 1.9 percent in the third quarter, bringing it to a higher level than before the pandemic for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis, Statistics Netherlands reported. With the new increase, the economy has therefore fully recovered from the coronavirus contraction in the first and second quarter of last year. After that, there …

Dutch coronavirus average tops 3,000 with virus spreading as fast as in early July
3 years, 2 months ago

Dutch coronavirus average tops 3,000 with virus spreading as fast as in early July

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Coronavirus infections in the Netherlands are up around 50 percent this week, with the seven-day moving average at 3,020 on Thursday. Additionally, the basic reproduction number also rose back to a point not seen since the first week of July, when the true scale of the Delta variant's infectiveness became clear. The R number reached 1.26 on September 30, meaning …

Every un-vaccinated person will eventually get Covid: RIVM boss
3 years, 4 months ago

Every un-vaccinated person will eventually get Covid: RIVM boss

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Public health institute RIVM expects that the coronavirus will continue to circulate in the Netherlands. "As a result, we expect that everyone who has not been vaccinated will sooner or later get the virus and may become ill," RIVM director Jaap van Dissel said in a parliamentary briefing on the current state of affairs around the pandemic, NOS reports. "Then …

NL residents cycled less during pandemic
3 years, 4 months ago

NL residents cycled less during pandemic

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In the coroanvirus year of 2020, Netherlands residents covered 13 percent fewer cycling kilometers than in the previous year, BOVAG saw after analyzing Statistics Netherlands figures. Where Netherlands residents still cycled an average of 1,112 kilometers per year in 2019, that fell to 996 kilometers last year. Zeeland is the only region where in total there was more cycling than …

Dutch coronavirus average hits two-week low, but Covid hospital total still rising
3 years, 4 months ago

Dutch coronavirus average hits two-week low, but Covid hospital total still rising

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The moving average for new daily coronavirus infections in the Netherlands fell below seven thousand for the first time in two weeks. At the same time, the number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients rose for the twelfth straight day, with three consecutive days where over 80 new patients were admitted into care. New data from the RIVM showed that another 4,665 …

Notably fewer highly-skilled immigrants from outside of the EU in 2020
3 years, 5 months ago

Notably fewer highly-skilled immigrants from outside of the EU in 2020

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The number of immigrants that came to the Netherlands in 2020 from outside the EU fell by nearly 30 thousand to 61.7 thousand, Statistics Netherlands reported. Immigrants from inside the EU also decreased last year by 15 thousand, dropping down to a total of 109 thousand. In 2019, 35 percent of EU immigrants stated work-related reasons as the main motive …

Dutch coronavirus average falls below 9,000; Hospital total rises
3 years, 5 months ago

Dutch coronavirus average falls below 9,000; Hospital total rises

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Public health agency RIVM revealed 6,301 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, the lowest in two weeks. Utrecht's average has fallen by 60 percent to 207, with 140 new infections reported on Thursday. That brought the moving daily average up to 66, with nine people daily sent straight to the ICU. The current hospital total includes 107 people in intensive care, …

Fewer immigrants came to the Netherlands during coronavirus
3 years, 5 months ago

Fewer immigrants came to the Netherlands during coronavirus

Dutch News  

Fewer people moved to the Netherlands during the pandemic than in previous years and coronavirus really kept non-EU nationals away, national statistics office CBS said on Wednesday. In 2020, 171,000 people without Dutch nationality moved to the Netherlands, 44,000 fewer than in 2019. Some 50,000 Dutch people returned home, but that is nearly 5,000 fewer people than in 2019. While …

NL mortality noticeably low for first time since pandemic started
3 years, 5 months ago

NL mortality noticeably low for first time since pandemic started

NL Times  

Last week an estimated 2,550 people died in the Netherlands - 200 fewer than expected for the 25th week of the year and almost 300 fewer than the week before, Statistics Netherlands reported. This is the first time since the coronavirus hit the Netherlands that there's been fewer weekly deaths than expected. The Netherlands has been dealing with periods of …

NL home prices up 13%; Biggest increase in 20 years
3 years, 6 months ago

NL home prices up 13%; Biggest increase in 20 years

NL Times  

Home prices in the Netherlands increased by 12.9 percent in May, compared to the same month last year. Possible reasons for this include the many economic support measures, the fact that the catering and entertainment industries were closed for large parts of the year, and travel restrictions making vacations difficult to impossible. Compared to the low point on the Dutch …

Dutch Covid-19 hospital cases near 8-month low; Vaccines on pace to beat weekly target
3 years, 6 months ago

Dutch Covid-19 hospital cases near 8-month low; Vaccines on pace to beat weekly target

NL Times  

The waning Covid-19 hospital figures in the Netherlands continued a month-long decline on Friday with the total number of admitted patients dipping to 1,065. The total fell by three percent since Thursday afternoon, patient coordination office LCPS said. The average daily number of patients admitted for the coronavirus disease also fell to 83, with 77 admitted between the afternoons of …

Higher than expected birth rate pushes Dutch population to 17.5 million
3 years, 6 months ago

Higher than expected birth rate pushes Dutch population to 17.5 million

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The population of the Netherlands has reached the 17.5 million mark. After years of the population growth being completely attributable to migration, the number of babies born in the first months of this year was higher than expected, Statistics Netherlands' population counter showed. The higher than expected birth rate came just about nine months after the first coronavirus lockdown was …

Covid vaccine calendar shows adults 18-49 will be invited in June
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid vaccine calendar shows adults 18-49 will be invited in June

NL Times  

While healthcare workers, the elderly and people with medical pre-conditions started receiving their Covid-19 vaccine shots as early as January, that invitation is still many weeks away for younger residents not identified as being at risk of a serious case of Covid-19. Should the current vaccination schedule in the Netherlands go forth as planned, adults outside of the medical sector …

NL urgently has to speed up first Covid vaccinations, ICU expert says
3 years, 9 months ago

NL urgently has to speed up first Covid vaccinations, ICU expert says

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Ernst Kuipers, head of the national acute care network LNAZ, again called on the government speed up the vaccination process "as soon as possible". According to him, the Netherlands needs to change its vaccination strategy to focus on giving as many groups as possible their first vaccine in order to relieve pressure on the healthcare system, De Telegraaf reports. About …

Mortality rate rising again after two week dip
3 years, 9 months ago

Mortality rate rising again after two week dip

NL Times  

After two weeks of below-expected mortality, the number of deaths in the Netherlands increased again last week. In week ten of 2021, between March 8 and 14, an estimated 3,300 people died in the country - about the same number as expected for the week and 250 more than the week before, Statistics Netherlands reported on Friday. The mortality rate …

Excess mortality in NL rising again
3 years, 9 months ago

Excess mortality in NL rising again

NL Times  

Just a week after Statistics Netherlands reported that there was no excess mortality in the country for the first time since September, the stats office said on Friday that the number of deaths last week was again higher than expected for the period. Mortality in the Netherlands started increasing to above expected in week 39 of 2020, September 21 to …

No excess mortality for first time since September
3 years, 10 months ago

No excess mortality for first time since September

NL Times  

An estimated 3,400 people died in the Netherlands last week - about the same number of deaths that was expected for this period, Statistics Netherlands reported on Friday. Last week was the first time since September that the Netherlands did not have excess mortality. The excess mortality has been decreasing slowly for some time, until it reached zero last week. …

NL counts 68,0000 more businesses, despite pandemic
3 years, 11 months ago

NL counts 68,0000 more businesses, despite pandemic

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Despite the coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying economic recession, the number of businesses in the Netherlands increased by 68 thousand last year, Statistics Netherlands reported. The number of small companies with only one employee increased significantly in the past decade, from 888 thousand to 1.5 million - an increase of 69 percent. In percentage terms, the education sector saw the …

15,000 more deaths than average in Netherlands last year
3 years, 11 months ago

15,000 more deaths than average in Netherlands last year

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Last year, 15 thousand more people died than was expected for the year, largely due to the coronavirus pandemic, Statistics Netherlands reported on Friday. Excess mortality was also high in the first week of 2021, with nearly 4 thousand people dying between January 4 and 10, about 650 more than expected. In the last week of 2020, between December 28 …

Over 13 thousand more deaths in 2020 than predicted
3 years, 11 months ago

Over 13 thousand more deaths in 2020 than predicted

NL Times  

Over 162 thousand people died in the Netherlands through the first 51 weeks of the year. It includes the four thousand people who died during the week ending December 20, about ten percent more than the preceding week, wrote Statistics Netherlands. Official statistics from public health agency RIVM show that nearly 11,100 people have died from Covid-19 in the Netherlands. …

Covid-19 dominated NL residents' Google searches this year
4 years ago

Covid-19 dominated NL residents' Google searches this year

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That the coronavirus had the Netherlands in its grips for most of 2020 is also reflected in the Dutch population's most used Google search terms. The most used search term in the Netherlands this year was "coronavirus". In the "why" section, there's "why do we hoard toilet paper" in second place, and "why is it called the coronavirus" in fourth. …

Deaths in first Covid wave 8 times higher in south NL than north
4 years ago

Deaths in first Covid wave 8 times higher in south NL than north

NL Times  

The first wave of coronavirus infections in the Netherlands claimed significantly more lives in the southern provinces than in the rest of the country, Statistics Netherlands reported on Thursday. The stats office previously reported that over 10 thousand Netherlands residents died of the coronavirus between early March and end June. In those two provinces, 105 people per 100 thousand residents …

Coronavirus halves population growth, as new immigrants stay away
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus halves population growth, as new immigrants stay away

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The population of the Netherlands grew by 54,000 in the first nine months of this year, almost half the 102,000 growth recorded in the first three quarters of 2019, according to new figures from national statistics agency CBS. The decline is due both to more people dying in the first half of the year and a downturn in the number …

New Dutch coronavirus infections top 4,000; Covid-19 hospital patients up 9% with more expected
4 years, 2 months ago

New Dutch coronavirus infections top 4,000; Covid-19 hospital patients up 9% with more expected

NL Times  

The Netherlands recorded 4,007 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, breaking the record set one day earlier by 35. “Based on the infection figures, we expect the number of hospital admissions to increase further over the coming days.” In total, the RIVM reported 34 percent more infections of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus than last Sunday. Instead there was a daily average increase …

Amsterdammers leaving the city as coronavirus infections rise
4 years, 4 months ago

Amsterdammers leaving the city as coronavirus infections rise

NL Times  

After years of growth, Amsterdam's population has been shrinking since the start of the coronavirus. With fewer expats and international students coming to the city, and more Amsterdam residents moving to quieter, less crowded places, the Dutch capital seems to have lost its appeal, Het Parool reports. Since the coronavirus outbreak in March, the Amsterdam population decreased by almost 4 …

Dutch economy expected to grow again next year, Covid-19 effects to linger
4 years, 4 months ago

Dutch economy expected to grow again next year, Covid-19 effects to linger

NL Times  

The Dutch economy will shrink by 5.1 percent this year, but recovery will start at the end of the year and in 2021 the economy will grow by 3.2 percent, according to central planning office CPB's draft-macroeconomic foresight studies. The effects of the Covid-19 crisis will linger, however, with unemployment rising to 7 percent next year. Household consumption will decrease …

Older, more diverse Dutch population could grow to 22 million by 2050
4 years, 5 months ago

Older, more diverse Dutch population could grow to 22 million by 2050

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The Dutch population is set to become larger, older and more diverse in the next 30 years, according to a study commissioned by parliament. The national statistics agency CBS and the demographic institute NIDI produced a range of figures in response to a question raised by VVD parliamentary group leader Klaas Dijkhoff during last September’s budget debate. The forecast for …

Older, more diverse Dutch population could grow to 22 million by 2050
4 years, 5 months ago

Older, more diverse Dutch population could grow to 22 million by 2050

Dutch News  

The Dutch population is set to become larger, older and more diverse in the next 30 years, according to a study commissioned by parliament. The national statistics agency CBS and the demographic institute NIDI produced a range of figures in response to a question raised by VVD parliamentary group leader Klaas Dijkhoff during last September’s budget debate. The forecast for …

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