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Netherlands

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The Netherlands is a country. The capital city is Amsterdam, located in the Western Europe region of Europe. It has a land area of 33,670 km², a population of 17,877,117 people and uses the currency Euro. The Prime Minister is Mark Rutte.

Key facts

currency: Euro
capital city: Amsterdam
region: Western Europe
continent: Europe
land area: 33,670 km²
population: 17,877,117 people
political leader: Mark Rutte (Prime Minister)

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central government debt: 54.21 % of GDP
expense: 38.10 % of GDP
GDP: 1,154,361,305,398.06 current US$
inflation: 3.84 annual %
self-employed workers: 16.50 % of total employment
tax revenue: 23.26 % of GDP
unemployment: 3.54 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 13.13 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 41,000 people
democracy score: 8.89
democracy type: Full democracy
individuals using the Internet: 97.00 % of population
military expenditure: 1.53 % of GDP
net migration: 144,558 people
press freedom: 9.06
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 40.00 %
birth rate: 9.50 per 1,000 people
death rate: 9.60 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 6,539.00 current US$
health expenditure: 11.29 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.01 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 2.91 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 82
suicide mortality rate: 11.80 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 18,120.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 3.37 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 122.87 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 38.65 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 42.28 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 0.08 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 3.51 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 1.30 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 12.36 % of total
net energy imports: 35.02 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.49 births per woman
forest area: 3,713 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 93.46 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 150.75 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 37.40
methane emissions: 19.33 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 7.61 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 8,997,851 people
male population: 8,879,266 people
renewable energy consumption: 12.20 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 26,211.90 km²
rural population: 1,219,398 people
urban land area: 8,322.49 km²
urban population: 16,657,719 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 43.81 % of total population

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Netherlands is one of the countries in Europe, countries in Western Europe and 194 countries in our database.

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Distribution of athletes from the Netherlands by birth date

Distribution of sites in the Netherlands by inscription year

Distribution of universities in the Netherlands per foundation year

Distribution of diseases by first founded year in the Netherlands

Evolution of historical urban population in the Netherlands with forecast

Evolution of historical male population in the Netherlands with forecast

Evolution of historical population in the Netherlands with forecast

Evolution of historical methane emissions in the Netherlands with forecast

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Map of the distribution of cities in the Netherlands by population

Map of the distribution of wildfires in the Netherlands by mean width

Map of the distribution of universities in the Netherlands by total students

Share of diseases in the Netherlands by mortality rate

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Share of revenue types by company in the Netherlands

Correlation of birth rate and median age by countries yearly in the Netherlands

Correlation of urban land area and armed forces personnel by countries yearly in the Netherlands

Correlation of agricultural land and nitrous oxide emissions of countries yearly in the Netherlands

Correlation of birth rate and fertility rate of countries yearly in the Netherlands

In literature

There are 689 books written about the Netherlands in the database.

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