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 102,0000.1%2023 [6]
Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia 500,0000.03%1985 [7]
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 3,6610.7%2021 [8]
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 [9] [note 2]
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 5,4660.01%1996 [10]
Flag of Suriname.svg  Suriname 400,00060%2020
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 22,1670.3%2011 [10]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 30,4070.05%2011 [11] [12]
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 183,8850.1%2017 [13] [note 2]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 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.

References

  1. ↑ "Bevölkerung nach Umgangssprache und Staatsangehörigkeit" (PDF). Statistik Oesterreich. May 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2005. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Eurobarometer 77.1 (Feb-Mar 2012) Robotics, Civil Protection, Humanitarian Aid, Smoking Habits, and Multilingualism". European Commission. February–March 2012 – via GESIS.
  3. ↑ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Census Profile, 2016 Census - Canada [Country] and Canada [Country]". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-06-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "Väestö". Stat.fi: Statistics – Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  5. ↑ "GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences". www.gesis.org. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  6. ↑ "Statistische Berichte". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  7. ↑ van den Toorn, M.C. (1985). De Nieuwe Taalgids. Jaargang 78 (in Dutch). [tijdschrift] De Nieuwe Taalgids.
  8. ↑ "La diversité linguistique". statistiques.public.lu (in French). 2023-12-08. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  9. ↑ "2018 Census totals by topic – national highlights | Stats NZ". www.stats.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  10. 1 2 "Population by language, sex and urban/rural residence". UNdata. Archived from the original on 19 May 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "QS204EW (Main language (detailed)) - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics". www.nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  12. ↑ "Language used at home other than English (detailed)" (PDF). Scotland's Census 2011 - National Records of Scotland. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  13. ↑ "IPUMS USA". usa.ipums.org. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
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