Official Languages

Languages spoken here

Afrikaans (secondary) · Akan (secondary) · Amharic (secondary) · Bengali (secondary) · Bulgarian (secondary) · Dutch (secondary) · Dutch (Brabantian) (secondary) · Dutch Sign Language (secondary) · Egyptian Arabic (secondary) · French (secondary) · French (Quebec) (secondary) · German (secondary) · Hindi (secondary) · Hungarian (secondary) · Indonesian (secondary) · Italian (secondary) · Italian (Romanesco) (secondary) · Japanese (secondary) · Javanese (secondary) · Javanese (Aksara Jawa) (secondary) · Kabuverdianu (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Lithuanian (secondary) · Modern Greek (secondary) · Modern Greek (biblical terms) (secondary) · Moroccan Arabic (secondary) · Northern Kurdish (secondary) · Papiamentu (secondary) · Polish (secondary) · Polish (Goralian) (secondary) · Portuguese (secondary) · Portuguese (Brazilian) (secondary) · Romanian (secondary) · Romanian (Moldovan) (secondary) · Russian (secondary) · Russian (Pre-1918) (secondary) · Somali (secondary) · Spanish (secondary) · Sranan Tongo (secondary) · Tamil (secondary) · Tarifit (secondary) · Thai (secondary) · Tigre (secondary) · Tigrinya (secondary) · Turkish (secondary) · Vietnamese (secondary) · Walloon (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Netherlands

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Dutch	13107000	Dutch	Non-Religious
Frisian	752000	Frisian	Christianity
Surinamese Creole, Sranan	385000	Sranan Tongo	Christianity
Turk	322000	Turkish	Islam
Arab, Moroccan	322000	Arabic, Moroccan	Islam
German	302000	German, Standard	Christianity
Gronings	291000	Gronings	Christianity
South Asian, general	241000	Hindi	Hinduism
Polish	225000	Polish	Christianity
Amazigh, Rif	173000	Tarifit	Islam
East Indian	156000	Hindustani, Sarnami	Hinduism
Flemish	131000	West Flemish	Christianity
Arab, Syrian	122000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Algerian, Arabic-speaking	99000	Arabic, Algerian	Islam
Antillean Creole, Papiamentu	86000	Papiamentu	Christianity
Kurd, Kurmanji	81000	Kurdish, Northern	Islam
Eurasian	75000	Dutch	Christianity
Arab, Iraqi	71000	Arabic, Mesopotamian	Islam
Afghan, general	56000	Dari	Islam
Ambonese	55000	Malay, Ambonese	Christianity
Han Chinese, Mandarin	54000	Chinese, Mandarin	Non-Religious
French	54000	French	Christianity
British	54000	English	Christianity
Spaniard	54000	Spanish	Christianity
Americans, U.S.	51000	English	Christianity
Bulgarian	48000	Bulgarian	Christianity
Javanese	46000	Javanese	Islam
Romanian	46000	Romanian	Christianity
Somali	44000	Somali	Islam
Persian	43000	Persian, Iranian	Islam
Brazilian, White	38000	Portuguese	Christianity
Han Chinese, Cantonese	33000	Chinese, Yue	Non-Religious
Portuguese	31000	Portuguese	Christianity
Greek	31000	Greek	Christianity
Arab, Egyptian general	31000	Arabic, Egyptian	Islam
Afrikaner	31000	Afrikaans	Christianity
Jewish, Dutch	31000	Dutch	Judaism
Italian	30000	Italian	Christianity
Amhara, Ethiopian	29000	Amharic	Christianity
Hungarian	29000	Hungarian	Christianity
Filipino, Tagalog	27000	Tagalog	Christianity
Vietnamese	26000	Vietnamese	Buddhism
Cape Verdean	25000	Kabuverdianu	Christianity
Tigray, Tigrinya	25000	Tigrigna	Christianity
Romani, Dutch	25000	Dutch	Christianity
Thai	24000	Thai	Buddhism
Colombian, Mestizo	22000	Spanish	Christianity
Tamil	22000	Tamil	Hinduism
Bosniak	20000	Bosnian	Islam
Black African, general	20000	Dutch	Christianity

Languages

61 languages recorded here.

Afrikaans

Akan

Amharic

Arabic, Algerian

Arabic, Egyptian

Arabic, Levantine

Arabic, Mesopotamian

Arabic, Moroccan

Bavarian

Bengali

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Chaldean Neo-Aramaic

Chinese, Mandarin

Chinese, Yue

Dari

Dutch

English

French

Frisian

German, Standard

Greek

Gronings

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Hindi

Hindustani, Sarnami

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

Javanese

Javanese, Suriname

Kabuverdianu

Kurdish, Northern

Latvian, Standard

Lithuanian

Malay, Ambonese

Papiamentu

Pashto, Southern

Persian, Iranian

Polish

Portuguese

Romani, Sinte

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Sign Language of the Netherlands

Somali

Spanish

Sranan Tongo

Tagalog

Tamil

Tarifit

Thai

Tigre

Tigrigna

Turkish

Turoyo

Vietnamese

Walloon

West Flemish

All catalogue fields

150 fields recorded

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iso3: NLD
iso2: NL
ctry: Netherlands
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cntpeoples: 71
cntpeopleslr: 20
poplpeopleslr: 1755000
jpscalectry: 4
rol3officiallanguage: nld
officiallang: Dutch
rlg3primary: 1
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percentevangelical: 4.0029965761912
c_10_40window: N
rog2: EUR
continent: Europe
regioncode: 10
regionname: Europe, Western
workersneeded: 40
harvest_rog3: NL
harvest_iso3: NLD
harvest_iso2: NL
harvest_owcountrycode: NETH
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: NL
harvest_countrynumber: 150
harvest_ctry: Netherlands
harvest_ctryshort: Netherlands
harvest_altname: Holland
harvest_countrynamechinese: 荷兰
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 荷兰
harvest_countrynamedutch: Nederland
harvest_countrynamefrench: Pays-Bas
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Pays-Bas
harvest_countrynamegerman: Niederlanden
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Niederlande
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Belanda
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Belanda
harvest_countrynameitalian: Olanda
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Olanda
harvest_countrynamekorean: 네덜란드
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 네덜란드
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Nederland
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Nederland
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Holanda
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Holanda
harvest_countrynamerussian: Нидерланды
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Нидерланды
harvest_countrynamespanish: Países Bajos
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Países Bajos
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Hà Lan
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Hà Lan
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
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harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
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harvest_c_10_40window: N
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harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 92
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harvest_rol3secondarylanguage: eng
harvest_rlg3primary: 7
harvest_pctanimist: 0
harvest_pctbahai: 0.04
harvest_pctbuddhism: 0.22
harvest_pctchinese: 0
harvest_pcthindu: 0.35
harvest_pctislam: 5.5
harvest_pctsikh: 0
harvest_pctjudaism: 0.18
harvest_pctnonreligious: 46.86
harvest_pctother: 0.3
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harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 17.35
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harvest_pctchristiananglican: 0.22
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 25.7
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 0.17
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 0.4400000000000001
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 1.7
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: 0
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A003
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.924
harvest_hdirank: 7
harvest_internetusers: 90.40000000000001
harvest_flashmapzoom: 1046
harvest_flashmapzoomx: -453
harvest_flashmapzoomy: -170
harvest_googlemapzoom: 6
harvest_googlemaplat: 51.8
harvest_googlemaplng: 5.75
harvest_ctrylatitude: 52.132633
harvest_ctrylongitude: 5.291266
harvest_securitylevel: 0
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/netherlands/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 304
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 0.3121319199057715
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=nl&joshua=nl
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-netherlands
harvest_internetusage: 95
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2018
harvest_biblesocietyurl: https://www.bijbelgenootschap.nl/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 15768
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 41785
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 1020
harvest_countryphonecode: 31
harvest_owpctchristian1986: 69
harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 8
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 64.09999999999999
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 5
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 55.93
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 4.5
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .nl
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/netherlands
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00