Dutch speakers, or , are globally concentrated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname. Dutch is also spoken in minority areas through Europe and in many immigrant communities in all over the world. Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch, but is regarded as a separate language and will not be analyzed in this article.
Statistics Native speakers CountryAbsolute%YearReference3,8020.05%20016,064,86654.8%2012Population data by Eurostat, using the source year. 99,0200.3%20161,6500.03%201896,9080.2%2007102,0000.1%2023500,0000.03%19853,6610.7%202115,766,78694.2%201223,8600.5%20185,4660.01%1996400,00060%202022,1670.3%201130,4070.05%2011183,8850.1%2017The reported population size was obtained by projecting the respondent percentage to the total population, since the source either included the part of the population who didn't answer or didn't take into account some parts of the population, for example children.
See also Geolinguistics Language geography
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