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Children's books set in Curaçao (1 P) Pages in category "Children's books set in the Netherlands" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The culture of the Netherlands is diverse, reflecting regional differences as well as the foreign influences built up by centuries of the Dutch people's mercantile and explorative spirit. The Netherlands and its people have long played an important role as centre of cultural liberalism and tolerance.
The fertility rate in the Netherlands is 1.78 children per woman (2018 estimate), [6] which is high compared with many other European countries, but below the rate of 2.1 children per woman required for natural population replacement. [201] The Netherlands has one of the oldest populations in the world, with the average age of 42.7 years. [6]
Natural or sexual selection appears to play a role, with taller men having more children. [108] [104] The role of evolution is disputed, however. [109] In the 21st century, average height in the Netherlands has started to decrease. This trend is partly due to immigration, but is also present in "people without a migration background". [110]
The Great Powers had secretly agreed to merge the northern Netherlands with the more populated Austrian Netherlands and the smaller Prince-Bishopric of Liège into a single constitutional monarchy. Having a stronger country on France's northern border was considered (especially by Tsar Alexander ) to be an important part of the strategy to keep ...
In 1918, William Elliot Griffis wrote down and translated Dutch folk tales, and published the book, Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks. Among them, the story of The Legend of the Wooden Shoe, clearly begins with fragments of Druidic mythology in the ancient Netherlands retold for children:
According to Statistics Netherlands, for the year 2007, the TFR for those born in Netherlands was 1.72 [12] (1.65 in 2000). TFR of Moroccan immigrants was 2.87 (3.22 in 2000) and that of Turkish immigrants was 1.88 (2.18 in 2000). [13] The total fertility rate is the annual average number of children born per woman over her lifespan. It is ...