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Afro-Dutch people

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

Afro-Dutch or Black Dutch are Dutch people 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]

Black Dutch
Zwarte Nederlanders
Total population
749,780 (2022)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Primarily urban centers 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

In May 2022, there were 749,780 people reported to be of African ancestry (4.26%, of a total population of 17,590,672 people).[1]

Demographics edit

Source:

Sub-Saharan African population in 2021
  Somalia East Africa 40,701
  Ethiopia East Africa 27,139
  Ghana West Africa 25,999
  Eritrea East Africa 23,207
  Cape Verde West Africa 22,980
  Nigeria West Africa 15,034
  Angola Southern Africa 9,137
  Democratic Republic of the Congo 8,827
  Sudan 8,744
  Sierra Leone West Africa 5,869
  Kenya 5,182
  Guinea West Africa 4,854
  Uganda 3,631
  Cameroon 3,481
  Burundi 3,374
  Liberia West Africa 3,080
  Zimbabwe Southern Africa 2,660
  Tanzania 2,479
  Senegal West Africa 2,164
  Ivory Coast West Africa 2,057
  Togo West Africa 1,966
  Gambia West Africa 1,940
  Rwanda 1,755
  Zambia Southern Africa 1,732
  Republic of the Congo 1,545
  Mozambique Southern Africa 1,137
  Mauritius Southern Africa 732
  Burkina Faso West Africa 715
  Malawi Southern Africa 546
  Benin West Africa 494
  Guinea-Bissau West Africa 473
  Mauritania West Africa 434
  Niger West Africa 409
  Mali West Africa 381
  Madagascar Southern Africa 347
  São Tomé and Príncipe 313
  Botswana Southern Africa 298
  Djibouti East Africa 267
  Chad 194
  Gabon 166
  Eswatini Southern Africa 154
  Lesotho Southern Africa 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 Sranan Tongo and Surinamese Dutch (Maroons: Ndyuka, Saramaccan, Kwinti, Aluku) 132.000
Former Netherlands Antilles
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 edit

Bibliography edit

  • 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.
  • Gowricharn, Ruben S. ( 2006 ). Caribbean Transnationalism: Migration, Pluralization, and Social Cohesion. Lexington Books.

References edit

  1. ^ a b "CBS Statline". opendata.cbs.nl (in Dutch). 31 May 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2024.

See also edit

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