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Afro-Dutch people

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Afro-DutchorBlack Dutch are Dutch people who are of Sub-Saharan 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^[when?] Afro-Dutch people, about 300,000 people, or 60%, are from these territories. There is also a sizable population of Cape Verdean, Ghanaian, Nigerian, Somali, Angolan 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, such as from Eritrea.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2022, there were 749,780 people reported to be of African ancestry (4.26%, of a total population of 17,590,672 people).^[1]

Demographics[edit]

Source:^[2]

Sub-Saharan African population in 2021
Somalia	East Africa	41,064
South Africa	Southern Africa	31,693
Ethiopia	East Africa	28,635
Ghana	West Africa	26,694
Eritrea	East Africa	25,080
Cape Verde	West Africa	23,150
Nigeria	West Africa	16,140
Angola	Southern Africa	9,363
Democratic Republic of the Congo		8,827
Sudan		8,744
Sierra Leone	West Africa	5,869
Kenya		5,182
Guinea	West Africa	4,854
Cameroon		3,481
Burundi		3,374
Liberia	West Africa	3,080
Zimbabwe	Southern Africa	2,660
Tanzania		2,479
Senegal	West Africa	2,164
Ivory Coast	West Africa	2,057
Togo	West Africa	1,966
Gambia	West Africa	1,940
Rwanda		1,755
Zambia	Southern Africa	1,732
Republic of the Congo		1,545
Mozambique	Southern Africa	1,137
Mauritius	Southern Africa	732
Burkina Faso	West Africa	715
Malawi	Southern Africa	546
Benin	West Africa	494
Guinea-Bissau	West Africa	473
Mauritania	West Africa	434
Niger	West Africa	409
Mali	West Africa	381
Madagascar	Southern Africa	347
São Tomé and Príncipe		313
Botswana	Southern Africa	298
Djibouti	East Africa	267
Chad		194
Gabon		166
Eswatini	Southern Africa	154
Lesotho	Southern Africa	140
Seychelles		129
Central African Republic		106
Equatorial Guinea		79
South Sudan		30
Comoros		22
Total:		266,216

Country	Ethnic group	Native languages
Suriname	Afro-Surinamese	Sranan Tongo and Surinamese Dutch (Maroons: Ndyuka, Saramaccan, Kwinti, Aluku)	132.000
Former Netherlands Antilles
Country	Ethnic group	Native languages
Curaçao	Afro-Curaçaoans	Papiamentu	131,360
Aruba	Afro-Arubans	Papiamento	29,069
Bonaire  Sint Eustatius  Saba	Afro-Bonairians, Afro-Statians and Afro-Sabans	Papiamentu and English	6,080
Sint Maarten	Afro-Sint Maarteners	English	4,904
Total:			171,413

Afro-Caribbean people
Country	Ethnic group	Native languages
Dominican Republic	Afro-Dominicans	Dominican Spanish	16,303
Cuba	Afro-Cubans		2,645
Jamaica	Afro-Jamaicans	Jamaican English and Jamaican Patois	1,917
Trinidad and Tobago	Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians	Trinidadian and Tobagonian English, Trinidadian Creole and Tobagonian Creole	1,203
Haiti	Afro-Haitians	Haitian French and Haitian Creole	984
Guadeloupe			454
Puerto Rico	Afro–Puerto Ricans		256
Barbados	Afro-Barbadians	Barbadian English and Bajan Creole	164
Dominica	Afro-Dominicans		143
Martinique			129
Saint Lucia	Afro-Saint Lucians		118
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Afro-Kittitians and Nevisians		116
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Afro-Vincentians		116
The Bahamas	Afro-Bahamians		113
Grenada	Afro-Grenadians	English, Grenadian Creole English and Grenadian Creole French	68
Bermuda	Afro-Bermudians		65
Antigua and Barbuda	Afro-Antiguans and Barbudans	English and Antiguan and Barbudan Creole	55
United States Virgin Islands			31
Anguilla	Afro-Anguillians		28
Cayman Islands	Afro-Caymanian		24
British Virgin Islands			22
Montserrat			12
Turks and Caicos Islands	Afro-Turks and Caicos Islanders	English and Turks and Caicos Creole	1
Total:

Notable Afro-Dutch people[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• 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.
• Gowricharn, Ruben S. ( 2006 ). Caribbean Transnationalism: Migration, Pluralization, and Social Cohesion. Lexington Books.

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See also[edit]

• Zwarte Hollanders