- ISO 3166
NL- Primary locale
nl-NL- Currency
- EUR · Euro
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK · BeNeLux
Netherlands
Netherlands has 17.8M people, and 17.2M of them are online. Dutch is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 12 languages CLDR lists here. Dutch is official nationally, and Western Frisian is official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to nl-NL.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
17.2M
0%world median 81%100%
97% of 17.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$73,684
Higher than 92% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
99%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
12
Dutch 100% · English 90% · German 71%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
624
Very lowVery high
Very high proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
99%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Netherlands
share of 17.8M people
- Dutchofficial100%17.8M
- English90%16M
- German71%12.6M
- French19%3.4M
- Low German11%2M
- Limburgish6%977.5K
- Western Frisianregional4%764.2K
- Gronings4%639.8K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 4 more languages sit below the top eight, at 5.6% combined.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against nl-NL, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 april 2026
Short: 21-04-2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
€ 1.234,56
1,234.56 in EUR · Euro