Geographical distribution of Dutch speakers

Dutch speakers globally are concentrated in the Netherlands, Belgium's Flanders, and Suriname. It's 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.

Statistics

Native speakers
Country Absolute % Year Reference
 Austria 3,802 0.05% 2001 [1]
 Belgium 6,064,866 54.8% 2012 [2][note 1]
 Canada 99,020 0.3% 2016 [3]
 Finland 1,650 0.03% 2018 [4]
 France 96,908 0.2% 2007 [6][note 1]
 Germany 93,871 0.1% 2010 [7][note 1]
 Luxembourg 9,848 1.9% 2012 [2][note 1]
 Netherlands 15,766,786 94.2% 2012 [2][note 1]
 New Zealand 23,860 0.5% 2018 [8][note 2]
 South Africa 5,466 0.01% 1996 [9]
 Suriname 229,831 46.6% 2004 [10]
  Switzerland 22,167 0.3% 2011 [9]
 United Kingdom 30,407 0.05% 2011 [11][12]
 United States 183,885 0.1% 2017 [13][note 2]

See also

Notes
  1. 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. 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. "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.
  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. "GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences". www.gesis.org. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  7. Berlin, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) (2011-11-09). "KAT38 Occupation, Profession". Adult Education Survey (AES 2010 - Germany). GESIS Data Archive. doi:10.4232/1.10825.
  8. "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.
  9. "Population by language, sex and urban/rural residence". UNdata. Archived from the original on 19 May 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  10. "Downloads - Censusstatistieken 2004 - Algemeen Bureau voor de Statistiek in Suriname". www.statistics-suriname.org (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  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.
  13. "IPUMS USA". usa.ipums.org. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
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