South Africans in the Netherlands

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South Africans in the Netherlands
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Total population
41,300 (2023) [1]
Languages
Dutch, Afrikaans, English
Religion
Mainly Christianity (Protestantism, Dutch Reformed Church and Calvinism)
Related ethnic groups
Dutch, Afrikaners, South Africans

South Africans in the Netherlands (Afrikaans : Suid-Afrikaners in Nederland; Dutch : Zuid-Afrikanen in Nederland) refers to South Africans living in the Netherlands, or Dutch people of South African descent.

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History

South African born population in the Netherlands
YearPop.±%
1996 9,629—    
2001 13,459+39.8%
2006 15,487+15.1%
2011 17,527+13.2%
2016 19,877+13.4%
2017 20,859+4.9%
2018 21,878+4.9%
2019 23,738+8.5%
2020 26,354+11.0%
2021 28,562+8.4%
2022 31,693+11.0%
Source: CBS [2]

Most South Africans in the Netherlands are Afrikaners, a population group descended from Dutch (and to a lesser extent German and French) colonists who settled in the Cape Colony from 1652 onwards. There is also a smaller minority of Coloured South-Africans in the Netherlands, a multi-racial people group descending from various groups (Europeans, Africans and Asians) and other white South Africans of non-Afrikaner descent (British, Portuguese etc).

Afrikaners and Coloured South-Africans mainly speak Afrikaans, a daughter language and variant of Dutch from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with loanwords from English, Malay, German, and to a lesser extent also Khoi, San and also from some Bantu languages.

While 21,878 South Africans were still living in the Netherlands on January 1, 2018, this number had increased to 30,902 in October 2021. This made South Africans one of the fastest growing population groups in the Netherlands during this period, the number have since doubled further into more than 40,000 as of 2023. [3]

Demographics

South African born population in the Netherlands [4]
YearTotal
19969 629
200113 459
200615 487
201117 527
201619 877
202128 562
202231 693

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Population; sex, age, country of origin, country of birth, 1 January". Statistics Netherlands.
  2. ↑ "CBS Statline". opendata.cbs.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  3. ↑ "Population; sex, age, country of origin, country of birth, 1 January". Statistics Netherlands.
  4. ↑ "CBS Statline". opendata.cbs.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-05-23.
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