Netherlands 
Facts
Population: 16,570,613 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 17.8% (male 1,505,931/female 1,436,532)
15-64 years: 67.8% (male 5,683,877/female 5,557,745)
65 years and over: 14.4% (male 1,015,731/female 1,370,797) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.464% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 10.7 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 8.69 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 2.63 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.048 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.023 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.741 male(s)/female
total population: 0.981 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 4.88 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 5.43 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 4.31 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 79.11 years
male: 76.52 years
female: 81.82 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.66 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.2% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 19,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 100 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Dutchman(men), Dutchwoman(women)
adjective: Dutch.
Ethnic groups: Dutch 83%, other 17% (of which 9% are non-Western origin mainly Turks, Moroccans, Antilleans, Surinamese, and Indonesians) (1999 est.).
Religions: Roman Catholic 31%, Dutch Reformed 13%, Calvinist 7%, Muslim 5.5%, other 2.5%, none 41% (2002).
Languages: Dutch (official), Frisian (official).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $529.1 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 2.9% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $32,100 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2.1%
industry: 23.9%
services: 73.9% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 7.6 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 2%
industry: 19%
services: 79% (2004 est.).
Population below poverty line: 10.5% (1999).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.5%
highest 10%: 22.9% (1999).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.4% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 5.5% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $304.3 billion
expenditures: $306.5 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: grains, potatoes, sugar beets, fruits, vegetables; livestock.
Industries: agroindustries, metal and engineering products, electrical machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum, construction, microelectronics, fishing.
Industrial production growth rate: 2.3% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 92.7 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 102.4 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 5.2 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 21.4 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $413.8 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels; foodstuffs.
Exports - partners: Germany 24.9%, Belgium 13%, France 9.4%, UK 9.2%, Italy 5.7%, US 4.3%, Spain 4.1% (2005).
Imports: $373.8 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, fuels, foodstuffs, clothing.
Imports - partners: Germany 16.6%, Belgium 9.3%, China 8.8%, US 7.6%, UK 5.8%, France 4.7%, Russia 4.4% (2005).
Debt - external: $1.899 trillion (30 June 2006).
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $4 billion (2003 est.).
Currency (code): euro (EUR)
note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to be used by financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions within the member countries.
Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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(Regional), Harderwijk
http://www.veluwsdagblad.nl/
Vrij Nederland
(Liberal), Amsterdam
(Regional), Apeldoorn
http://www.zwolsecourant.nl/
Netherlands in the News
Dutch design is at a crossroads and needs to embrace the world, and I'm sure the resourceful pool of Dutch talent will manage it.
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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