Dutch commercial-sector labour productivity rises 2.5% in 2025
Dutch commercial businesses generated more value per hour worked in 2025, helped by gains in trade and manufacturing, provisional figures show.
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Labour productivity in the Netherlands’ commercial sector rose by 2.5% in 2025 compared with 2024, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported on 7 October. The provisional increase followed a provisional 0.4% decline in 2024. CBS measures productivity here as value added per hour worked. [1]
The sector’s value added rose by 1.7% while total hours worked fell by 0.8%. Trade contributed 1.00 percentage point to the overall productivity increase and manufacturing 0.74 points, the largest positive contributions by industry. Energy supply and information and communication each made a negative contribution of 0.15 points. [1]
CBS attributes 2.4 percentage points of the increase to productivity changes within industries and 0.1 point to a shift in the distribution of hours between them. That shift is separate from the fall in total hours worked. [1]
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