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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]
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 ...
The Netherlands and its people have made contributions to the arts, science, technology and engineering, economics and finance, cartography and geography, exploration and navigation, law and jurisprudence, thought and philosophy, medicine. and agriculture. The following list is composed of objects, (largely) unknown lands, breakthrough ideas ...
Built in 1738 and 1740, to keep water out of the polder, it is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands and one of the best-known Dutch tourist sites. The mills are listed as national monuments and the entire area is a protected village view since 1993.
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 ...
The Netherlands has a tradition of cabaret or kleinkunst, which combines music, storytelling, commentary, theatre and comedy. Cabaret dates back to the 1930s and artists like Wim Kan, Wim Sonneveld and Toon Hermans were pioneers of this form of art in the Netherlands. In Amsterdam is the Kleinkunstacademie (English: Cabaret Academy) and ...