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Indians in the Netherlands are residents of Indian origin in the Netherlands. The majority of the people of Indian descent in the Netherlands are of Indo-Surinamese origin.[2] More recently the flow of emigrants from India has increased.
In 2017, 8,630 Indians immigrated to the Netherlands, ranking as the second largest immigrant group after the Syrians. Most were skilled in information technology and information services.[3][4] Moreover, the number of Indians who came to study in the Netherlands has more than tripled: from 425 migrant students in 2012 to 1,400 migrant students in 2017.[citation needed] Between January and November 2019, 6,322 Indians immigrated to the Netherlands.[5] Nevertheless, around 45 percent of Indian immigrants leave within six months of arriving in the Netherlands.[6]
As of 2019, about 48,724 people of Indian immigrant descent lived in the Netherlands.[1] Most of them live in the provinces of North Holland, South Holland and North Brabant.
From 2016 to 2022 the population of Indians in the Netherlands doubled from 32,682 to 65,399 (Note that this number excludes Indo-Surinamese).[7]
Up until the independence of Suriname in 1975, all the Indo-Surinamese were formally part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and thus owned a Dutch passport. After the independence a significant portion of the Indo-Surinamese population migrated to the Netherlands, thereby retaining their Dutch passport. Currently there are more than 120,000 Indo-Surinamese living in the Netherlands, of which the majority, about 50,000, in The Hague and surroundings.[citation needed]
Indo-Surinamese are also known in both the Netherlands and Suriname by the Dutch term Hindoestanen, derived from the word Hindustani, lit., "someone from Hindustan". Hence, when Indians migrated to Suriname they were referred to as Hindustanis, people of Indian origin.[10]
Statistics
In December 2001, the High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora estimated the population of PIOs and Indian citizens at 215,000.[11] According to the Dutch governmental institution Statistics Netherlands (CBS), 65,339 individuals were of Indian origin as of 31 May 2022.[12] The Embassy of India states that the Netherlands has the "second largest population of people of Indian origin in Europe (next only to UK)" and that it is "home to about 220,000 Indian and Surinamese Hindustani Diaspora."[13][dead link] The Netherlands India Chamber of Commerce & Trade (NICCT) states that there are about 25,000 Indians or persons of Indian origin, excluding the Surinamese Hindustanis.[14][dead link]
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