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This article is about the Black population of the Netherlands. For the ethnonym in the United States, see Black-Dutch. For the extinct Creole language, see Negerhollands.

Black-Dutch
Zwart-Nederlanders
Total population
731,444 (2021)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Primarily urban centres in South Holland, North Holland, Flevoland and Utrecht
Languages
Primarily Dutch, Papiamento, Sranan Tongo, English, Creole Languages
Religion
Majority Christianity, minorities Islam, Irreligion and Traditional African religions

Afro-Dutch or Black-Dutch are residents of the Netherlands who are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The majority of Afro-Dutch in the continental Netherlands hail from the former and present Dutch overseas territories Suriname and the former Netherlands Antilles; now Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius and Saba. Of the approximately 500,000[when?] Afro-Dutch people, about 300,000 people, or 60%, are from these territories. There is also a sizable population of Cape Verdean, Ghanaian, Nigerian, Somali, Angolan and other African communities of more recent immigrants. The majority of Afro-Dutch people migrated to the Netherlands from the 1970s onwards, most of the recent migrants arriving either as political refugees seeking freedom or, more often, to escape regional conflicts, such as from Eritrea.[citation needed]

In July 2021, there were 731,444 people reported to be of African ancestry (4,18%, of a total population of 17,475,415 people).[1]

Demographics

Source:[2]

Sub-Saharan African population in 2021
 Somalia 40,701
 South Africa 28,562
 Ethiopia 27,139
 Ghana 25,999
 Eritrea 23,207
 Cape Verde 22,980
 Nigeria 15,034
 Angola 9,137
DR Congo 8,827
 Sudan 8,744
 Sierra Leone 5,869
 Kenya 5,182
 Guinea 4,854
 Uganda 3,631
 Cameroon 3,481
 Burundi 3,374
 Liberia 3,080
 Zimbabwe 2,660
 Tanzania 2,479
 Senegal 2,164
Ivory Coast 2,057
 Togo 1,966
 Gambia 1,940
 Rwanda 1,755
 Zambia 1,732
Republic of the Congo 1,545
Mozambique 1,137
Mauritius 732
Burkina Faso 715
Namibia 551
Malawi 546
Benin 494
Guinea-Bissau 473
Mauritania 434
Niger 409
Mali 381
Madagascar 347
São Tomé and Príncipe 313
Botswana 298
Djibouti 267
Chad 194
Gabon 166
Eswatini 154
Lesotho 140
Seychelles 129
Central African Republic 106
Equatorial Guinea 79
South Sudan 30
Comoros 22
Total: 266,216
Country Ethnic group Native languages
 Suriname Afro-Surinamese (Maroons Sranan Tongo (Maroons: Ndyuka, Saramaccan, Kwinti, Aluku) 132.000
Former Netherlands Antilles and Aruba
Country Ethnic group Native languages
 Curaçao Afro-Curaçaoans Papiamentu 131,360
 Aruba Afro-Arubans Papiamento 29,069
 Bonaire  Sint Eustatius  Saba Afro-Bonairians, Afro-Statians and Afro-Sabans Papiamentu and English 6,080
 Sint Maarten Afro-Sint Maarteners English 4,904
Total: 171,413
Afro-Caribbean people
Country Ethnic group Native languages
 Dominican Republic Afro-Dominicans Dominican Spanish 16,303
 Cuba Afro-Cubans 2,645
 Jamaica Afro-Jamaicans Jamaican English and Jamaican Patois 1,917
 Trinidad and Tobago Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians Trinidadian and Tobagonian English, Trinidadian Creole and Tobagonian Creole 1,203
 Haiti Afro-Haitians Haitian French and Haitian Creole 984
 Guadeloupe 454
 Puerto Rico Afro–Puerto Ricans 256
 Barbados Afro-Barbadians Barbadian English and Bajan Creole 164
 Dominica Afro-Dominicans 143
 Martinique 129
 Saint Lucia Afro-Saint Lucians 118
 Saint Kitts and Nevis Afro-Kittitians and Nevisians 116
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Afro-Vincentians 116
 The Bahamas Afro-Bahamians 113
 Grenada Afro-Grenadians English, Grenadian Creole English and Grenadian Creole French 68
 Bermuda Afro-Bermudians 65
 Antigua and Barbuda Afro-Antiguans and Barbudans English and Antiguan and Barbudan Creole 55
 United States Virgin Islands 31
 Anguilla Afro-Anguillians 28
 Cayman Islands Afro-Caymanian 24
 British Virgin Islands 22
 Montserrat 12
 Turks and Caicos Islands Afro-Turks and Caicos Islanders English and Turks and Caicos Creole 1
Total:

Notable Afro-Dutch people

Bibliography

  • Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.(1999). Africana: the Encyclopedia of African and African American Experience. Basic Civitas Books, pp. 1413–1416. ISBN 0-465-00071-1.

References

  1. ^ a b "CBS Statline". opendata.cbs.nl (in Dutch). 22 July 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevolking van Nederland", Wikipedia (in Dutch), 26 June 2022, retrieved 27 June 2022

See also

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