Pakistanis in the Netherlands

Dutch Pakistanis

Total population
23,855 (2019 official estimate)

Dutch Pakistanis formed a population of 23,855 individuals (persons born in Pakistan or with at least one parent born there) according to the latest official statistics published by the Netherlands Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek on the 1st January 2019.

Notable people

• Imran Khan - singer and musician
• F1rstman - rapper and beatboxer
• Kamal Raja - Singer
• Sama Blake - Singer
• Tymore - Singer
• Rahil Ahmed - cricketer
• Mudassar Bukhari - cricketer
• Mohammad Kashif - cricketer
• Asim Khan - cricketer
• Adeel Raja - cricketer
• Madiea Ghafoor - athlete and Olympian

Further reading

• Bano, S.; Hoolt, J. (1989), De Pakistaanse Gemeenschap in Amsterdam, afdeling Onderzoek en Statistiek, Gemeente Amsterdam
• Blom, Johan (1984), "Pakistanen in Nederland: een niet erkende minderheidsgroep", Buitenlanders Bulletin, 9 (4): 12–16, ISSN 0168-7816
• Butt, Waqas (December 2007), "A Socio-economic and Cultural Perspective on Pakistanis in the Netherlands", in Kalra, Virinder S. (ed.), Pakistani Diasporas: Culture, Conflict, and Change, Oxford in Pakistan Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-547625-5
• Imtiaz, Sharon Karima (1997), A comparative study of multilingual Pakistanis in Amsterdam and Birmingham (PDF), Ph.D. dissertation, University of Warwick, OCLC 59426361
• Morgahi, M. Amer (February 2007), "Cricket, Bollywood en islam: 'Desi' jongeren in Nederland", Kennislink, retrieved 2011-07-27
• Morgahi, M. Amer (October 2010), "An Emerging European Islam: The Case of the Minhajul Qur'an in the Netherlands", in van Bruinessen, Martin; Allievi, Stefano (eds.), Producing Islamic Knowledge in Europe: Transmission and dissemination in Western Europe, Routledge Islamic Studies Series, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-35592-6
• Selier, F. J. M. (March 1991), Pakistanis in the Netherlands: The Case of Rotterdam, V. U. Uitgeverij, ISBN 978-90-6256-947-2