Netherlands, The 
Facts
Population:
15,981,472 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
18.38% (male 1,501,925; female 1,436,017)
15-64 years:
67.9% (male 5,518,575; female 5,333,442)
65 years and over:
13.72% (male 899,052; female 1,292,461) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.55% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
11.85 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
8.69 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
2.34 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.04 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.7 male(s)/female
total population:
0.98 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
4.37 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
78.43 years
male:
75.55 years
female:
81.44 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.65 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.19% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
15,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Dutchman(men), Dutchwoman(women)
adjective:
Dutch
Ethnic groups:
Dutch 91%, Moroccans, Turks, and other 9% (1999 est.)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 31%, Protestant 21%, Muslim 4.4%, other 3.6%, unaffiliated 40% (1998)
Languages:
Dutch
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
99% (2000 est.)
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $388.4 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $24,400 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
3.3%
industry:
26.3%
services:
70.4% (2000 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.8%
highest 10%:
25.1% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.6% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
7.2 million (2000)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 73%, industry 23%, agriculture 4% (1998 est.)
Unemployment rate:
2.6% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$134 billion
expenditures:
$134 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2001 est.)
Industries:
agroindustries, metal and engineering products, electrical machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum, construction, microelectronics, fishing
Industrial production growth rate:
3.2% (2000)
Electricity - production:
85.294 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
90.25%
hydro:
0.11%
nuclear:
4.27%
other:
5.37% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
97.76 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
3.97 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
22.407 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
grains, potatoes, sugar beets, fruits, vegetables; livestock
Exports:
$210.3 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels; foodstuffs
Exports - partners:
EU 78% (Germany 26%, Belgium-Luxembourg 12%, France 12%, UK 11%, Italy 6%), Central and Eastern Europe, US (2000)
Imports:
$201.2 billion (c.i.f., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, fuels; foodstuffs, clothing
Imports - partners:
EU 56% (Germany 18%, Belgium-Luxembourg 10%, UK 5%, France 6%), US 9%, Central and Eastern Europe (2000)
Debt - external:
$0
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $3.5 billion (2000 est.)
Currency:
Netherlands guilder (NLG); euro (EUR)
note:
on 1 January 1999, the EU introduced the euro as a common currency that is now being used by financial institutions in the Netherlands at a fixed rate of 2.20371 Netherlands guilders per euro and will replace the local currency for all transactions in 2002
Currency code:
NLG; EUR
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 1.0659 (January 2001), 1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999); Netherlands guilders per US dollar - 1.9837 (1998), 1.9513 (1997), 1.6859 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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Analysis indicates Iraq policy has cost British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi heavily at the ballot box.
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Rudolphus (Ruud) Lubbers took on his latest international role when he assumed the position of U.N. high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) in early January. Lubbers, 61, succeeded Japan’s Sadako Ogata, who had held the position for almost a decade.
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