NationMaster - Dutch People statistics

Age at first marriage for men	30.7 years	[8th of 19]
Age at first marriage for women	28.3 years	[8th of 19]
Age structure > 0-14 years	18.1	[185th of 226]
Age structure > 15-64 years	67.8	[55th of 226]
Age structure > 65 years and over	14.2 %	[38th of 225]
Attitude of women > Should have equal rights	80%	[1st of 9]
Average size of households	2.3	[12th of 17]
Chinese population	80,000	[21st of 127]
Divorces per 100 marriages	39.3 divorces per 100 marriag	[11th of 20]
Gender development	0.93	[8th of 141]
Home ownership	49%	[13th of 14]
Marriage rate	6.4	[15th of 27]
Nobel prize laureates	15	[7th of 44]
One person households	13	[12th of 22]
Persons per room	0.7	[42nd of 60]
Population in 2015	16,812	[64th of 225]
Projected population growth	12.2%	[102nd of 141]
Size of houses	43%	[8th of 18]
Teenage birth rate	6.2	[25th of 28]
Urbanization	90	[20th of 204]

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SOURCES: 1980 figures and 1999 figures for EU countries are from European Social Statistics Demography 2001. Australian figures are from ABS, Year Book Australia 2003 - Population. Marriages and Divorces and the latest figure is for 2001. Figures for other European and North American countries come from UN Economic Commission for Europe, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN, NY, 2001). New Zealand figures from Maureen Baker, Families, Labour and Love (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001). Japanese figures from Japan Almanac 1998 (Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo). Figures for other countries from UN Statistics Division, The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics. Spanish Statistical Institute; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006 ; Economist, 9 October 1999; Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN Economic Commission for Europe, NY, 2001), p. 74; University Libraries, Ohio University; OECD; Human Development Reports, United Nations 2002; Economist, 30 March 2002, and Euromonitor; United Nations, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, April 2001; The Nobel Foundation; OECD; United Nations Secretariat and United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), Compendium of Human Settlement Statistics 2001 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.01.XVII.5), Compendium of Human Settlement Statistics 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XVII.11) and United Nations, Compendium of Human Settlements Statistics 1983 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E/F.84.XVII.5); Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpp; Population Reference Bureau, 2001 World Population Data Sheet, Washington, DC: PRB, 2001. via ciesin.org; Figures are all from the market analysts Euromonitor. See also Japan Almanac 1998 (Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, 1998; UNICEF; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights (ESA/P/WP.173, 20 March 2002)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, Nederland, the netherlands

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