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Dutch economic growth set to reach 3.3% this year, says CPB

August 16, 2017
Graphic: CPB

The government’s macro-economic policy unit CPB on Wednesday revised its growth forecasts for the Dutch economy upwards to 3.3% this year and 2.5% in 2018.

The increase is due to the ‘very strong second quarter’ and would mark the ‘the first time since the beginning of the crisis (2007) that growth is higher than 3%’.

The figures are contained in a preliminary version of the annual macro-economic outlook which is always published to coincide with the budget on the third Tuesday in September.

The new figures are a sharp rise on the June forecasts and mainly due to the ‘very favourable’ development in Dutch exports, the CPB said.

The agency also sees unemployment falling to 4.9% this year and again to 4.3% in 2018. Inflation will remain around 1.3%.

Prime minister Mark Rutte spoke to reporters about the figures while on his way to the ongoing coalition negotiations.

‘Today we can celebrate the fact that the Netherlands has put the economic crisis behind it and that we have the fastest growing economy in the western world,’ he said. ‘We are growing twice as fast as the US or Germany.’

Main figures for 2017 and 2018

  • Economic development: growth of 3.3% in 2017 and 2.5% in 2018
  • Decreasing unemployment: 4.9% in 2017, further decreasing to 4.3% in 2018
  • Inflation: 1.3% in both 2017 and 2018
  • Increasing budget surplus: the EMU balance will be 0.6% of GDP in 2017 and 0.9% in 2018
  • Government debt will continue to decrease: 57% of GDP in 2017 and 54% in 2018

Download the full preliminary report

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