Geographical distribution of Dutch speakers

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Dutch speakers, or Batavophones , are globally concentrated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname. Dutch is also spoken in minority areas through Europe and in many immigrant communities in all over the world. Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch, but is regarded as a separate language and will not be analyzed in this article.

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Statistics

Native speakers

CountryAbsolute%YearReference
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 3,8020.05%2001 [1]
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 6,064,86654.8%2012 [2] [note 1]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 99,0200.3%2016 [3]
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1,6500.03%2018 [4]
Flag of France.svg  France 96,9080.2%2007 [5] [note 1]
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 93,8710.1%2010 [6] [note 1]
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 9,8481.9%2012 [2] [note 1]
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 15,766,78694.2%2012 [2] [note 1]
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 23,8600.5%2018 [7] [note 2]
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 5,4660.01%1996 [8]
Flag of Suriname.svg  Suriname 400,00060%2020
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 22,1670.3%2011 [8]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 30,4070.05%2011 [9] [10]
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 183,8850.1%2017 [11] [note 2]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Population data by Eurostat, using the source year. "The number of persons having their usual residence in a country on 1 January of the respective year". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  2. 1 2 The reported population size was obtained by projecting the respondent percentage to the total population, since the source either included the part of the population who didn't answer or didn't take into account some parts of the population, for example children.

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