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Afro-Dutch people

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Afro-Dutch
Afro-Nederlanders
Total population
700,000
Regions with significant populations
Primarily urban centres in South Holland, North Holland, Flevoland and Utrecht
Languages
Primarily Dutch

Afro-Dutch or Black-Dutch are residents of the Netherlands who are of black African ancestry. The majority of Afro-Dutch in the continental Netherlands hail from the former and present Dutch overseas territories Suriname and the former Netherlands Antilles; now Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius and Saba. Of the approximately 500,000 Afro-Dutch people, about 300,000 people, or 60%, are from these territories. There is also a sizable population of Cape Verdean and other African communities of more recent immigrants. The majority of Afro-Dutch people migrated to the Netherlands from the 1970s onwards, most of the recent migrants arriving either as political refugees seeking freedom or, more often, to escape regional conflicts, as from Eritrea.

Notable Afro-Dutch people

Bibliography

  • Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.(1999). Africana: the Encyclopedia of African and African American Experience. Basic Civitas Books, pp. 1413–1416. ISBN 0-465-00071-1.

References

https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/37325/table?ts=1559761610403

See also