Number of households rise to 7.2 million

There were nearly 7.2 million households in the Netherlands on January 1 2007, 600,000 up on the figure 10 years ago, according to statistics released on Monday by the CBS. Much of this growth was caused by single-person households. Their numbers grew by 380,000 to 2.5 million.

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