Afro-Dutch people

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 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.

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.

Black Dutch
Zwarte Nederlanders
Total population
731,444 (2021)[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 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:

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

References
  1. "CBS Statline". opendata.cbs.nl (in Dutch). 22 July 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2021.

See also
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