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USD 14.3 billion (2016)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved January 2017
USD 799.8 billion (2017, estimate)
Intl$ 898.7 billion (2017, estimate)
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| 3.5% | 3.7% | 1.7% | -3.8% | 1.4% | 1.7% | -1.1% |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* | ||
| -0.2% | 1.4% | 2% | 1.7% | 1.6% |
*Estimate
USD 46,828.8 (2017, estimate)
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2017* |
| 1.29% | 1.19% | 1.08% | 0.85% | 0.7% |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
2% (2014)
OECD, data retrieved January 2017
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 2.6% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.9% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 7.3% | 7.4% | 6.9% | 6.7% | 6.5% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 67.7% | 67.9% | 65.1% | 63.5% | 61.8% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| -2.4% | -2.3% | -1.9% | -1.1% | -0.7% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: AAA
Moody's: Aaa
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 817.8 billion | USD 786.6 billion | USD 728.5 billion |
Royal Dutch Shell, ING Group, Unilever, LyondellBasell Industries, Heineken Holding, NN Group, Aegon, Philips, Royal Ahold, Ageas, Akzo Nobel, NXP Semiconductors, ASML Holding, HAL Trust, AerCap Holdings, KPN, Randstad Holding, VimpelCom, Delta Lloyd, DSM, Wolters Kluwer, Chicago Bridge & Iron.
8.2% (2017 estimate)
82.5% (2015)
3.4% (2015)
3.7% (2015)
Machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels; foodstuffs
Machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, fuels, foodstuffs, clothing
Germany 24.5%, Belgium 11.1%, UK 9.3%, France 8.4%, Italy 4.2% (2015)
Germany 14.7%, China 14.5%, Belgium 8.2%, US 8.1%, UK 5.1% (2015)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 51,375 million | USD 52,198 million | USD 72,649 million |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 69,974 million | USD 55,966 million | USD 113,429 million |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD -1091.8 million | USD -3142.1 million | USD -1340.0 million | USD 20274.8 million |
AerCap Holdings NV, International Lease Finance Corp, United States, USD 5.4 billion / Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Repsol SA-Liquefied Natural Gas Business, Peru, USD 4.6 billion / PPF Group NV, Telefonica Czech Republic as, Czech Republic, USD 3.3 billion
Genesis International Holdings NV, Steinhoff International Holdings Ltd, South Africa, USD 20.4 billion / DE Master Blenders 1753 BV-Coffee Business, Mondelez International Inc-Coffee Business, Netherlands, USD 4.2 billion
Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: 28 out of 190 countries (2017)
Subcategories:
Starting a business: 22 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 71 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 29 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 82 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 70 out of 190 countries
Trading Across Borders: 1 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 20 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 87 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 45 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 11 out of 190 countries
4 out of 138 countries
(2016-2017)
Ranking: 16 / Score: 74.55 (Mostly free) (2016)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Parliamentary constitutional monarchy; part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Dutch (official)
Note: Frisian is an official language in Fryslan province; Frisian, Low Saxon, Limburgish, Romani, and Yiddish have protected status under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; Dutch is the official language of the three special municipalities of the Caribbean Netherlands, while English is a recognized regional language on Sint Eustatius and Saba and Papiamento is a recognized regional language on Bonaire
Roman Catholic 28%, Protestant 19% (includes Dutch Reformed 9%, Protestant Church of The Netherlands, 7%, Calvinist 3%), other 11% (includes about 5% Muslim and fewer numbers of Hindu, Buddhist, Jehovah's Witness, and Orthodox), none 42% (2009 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2016* | 2021* |
| 14.952 million | 15.926 million | 16.615 million | 17.03million | 17.225 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2015 |
| 60% | 65% | 77% | 91% |
28.0 (2012)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Political Rights: 1
Civil Liberties: 1 (2017)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 41.27% Mobile 123.54% (2015)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)