South Africans in the Netherlands
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South Africans in the Netherlands (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaners in Nederland; Dutch: Zuid-Afrikanen in Nederland) refers to South Africans living in the Netherlands, or Dutch people of South African descent.
| (2022, 30,902) 30,902 (including those of ancestral descent) | |
| Languages | |
|---|---|
| Dutch, Afrikaans, English | |
| Religion | |
| Majority Christianity (Mainly Protestantism) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Dutch, Afrikaners, South Africans |
Most South Africans in the Netherlands are Afrikaners, a population group descended from Dutch (and to a lesser extent German and French) colonists who settled in the Cape Colony from 1652 onwards. There is also a smaller minority of Coloured South-Africans in the Netherlands, a multi-racial people group descending from various groups (Europeans, Africans and Asians).
Afrikaners and Coloured South-Africans mainly speak Afrikaans, a daughter language and variant of Dutch from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with loanwords from English, Malay, German, and to a lesser extent also Khoi, San and also from some Bantu languages.
While 21,878 South Africans were still living in the Netherlands on January 1, 2018, this number had increased to 30,902 in October 2021. This made South Africans one of the fastest growing population groups in the Netherlands during this period.
| Year | Total |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 9 629 |
| 2001 | 13 459 |
| 2006 | 15 487 |
| 2011 | 17 527 |
| 2016 | 19 877 |
| 2021 | 28 562 |
| 2022 | 31 693 |
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