General Country Information
Capital: Amsterdam
Population: 16,570,613 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 7.6 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 15.834 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 8.363 million (2006)
Internet users: 10.806 million (2004)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.71
World Rank 2005/2006: 6
*The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) evaluates the opportunity, infrastructure and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) worldwide and was created by the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The DOI is based on a scale of 0-1, where 1 is ideal, and the World Rank is taken into consideration out of 181 countries, based on the DOI.
Disability Organizations and Contact Information:
Dovenschap
info@dovenschap.nl
Dutch Council of the Chronically ill and the Disabled
gehandicaptenraad@wxs.nl
Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare (NIZW)
intcentre@nizw.nl
SPD
no contact information currently available