^a Including 13.2 million ethnically Dutch inhabitants of the Netherlands, 2 million (at most) living abroad, and another 14–15 million who declare Dutch ancestry worldwide, including expatriates.Pang-bô͘:Notetag
^cDutch Protestants are mainly Reformed, with notable Lutheran minorities. Roman Catholics also form a sizable minority, especially in the south on the border with Flanders, a traditional Catholic stronghold.
^d In South Africa, most Afrikaners and Coloureds (Cape Coloureds) trace their ancestry to the Netherlands, being descendants of Dutch colonizers who established the Dutch Cape Colony. They speak Afrikaans as their native language, which is a mutually intelligible sister language of Dutch that developed in the Colony.
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O-lân-hē jîn-bîn koh tĪ Ìn-nî ū 40-thóng bān chó-iū, in sī cho-sêng tong-tē Indo-lâng ê chòe-chú-iàu pō͘-hūn. Lēng-gōa tī Suriname, Curaçao, Pa-se kap Canada téng tē, in mā sī chin ū hoat-tián ê chió-sò͘ cho̍k-kûn,
Dutch Low Saxon, a variety of Low German spoken in northeastern Netherlands, is used by people who ethnically identify as "Dutch" despite perceived linguistic differences.
Limburgish, a Low Franconian variety in close proximity to both Dutch and German, spoken in southeastern Netherlands is used by people who ethnically identify as Dutch or Flemings and regionally as "Limburgers" despite perceived linguistic differences.
West Frisian is spoken by the ethnic Frisians, who may or may not also identify as "Dutch".
The Caribbean Netherlands are treated as a municipality of the Netherlands and the inhabitants are considered in law and practice to be "Dutch", even if they might not identify as such personally.
Papiamento, a Portuguese-based creole, is spoken by Arubans and Curaçaoans who may ethnically further also identify as "Dutch".
"Afrikaners constitute nearly three million out of approximately 53 million inhabitants of the Republic of South Africa, plus as many as half a million in diaspora."Afrikaner – Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
Afrikaners make up approximately 5.2% of the total South African population based on the number of white South Africans who speak Afrikaans as a first language in the South African National Census of 2011.