- ISO 3166
NL- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
17.2M
0%world median 81%100%
97% of 17.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 spending power, not revenue.
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. 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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Netherlands
share of 17.8M people
- Dutchofficial100%17.8M
- English90%16M
- German71%12.6M
- French19%3.4M
- Low German11%2M
- Limburgish5.5%977.5K
- Western Frisianregional4.3%764.2K
- Gronings3.6%639.8K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 4 more languages sit below the top eight, at 5.6% combined.
CLDR records Dutch in 10 territories and 32.9M speakers in total; Netherlands holds 54% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Dutch profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (nl-NL).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
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