- ISO 639
nl- Its own name
- Nederlands
- Script
- Latin
- Direction
- Left to right
Dutch
Dutch (Nederlands) is spoken by 32.9M people across 10 territories in CLDR, and is official nationally in 7 of them. Netherlands holds 54% of its speakers.
Reach summary
What one translation into Dutch covers, across every market that speaks it.
Speakers
32.9M
Netherlands 54% · Germany 23% · Belgium 20%
First and second language speakers, summed across the 10 territories CLDR records. The bar splits them by territory.
Online speakers
31.5M
0%100%
96% of speakers, once each territory's speaker count is scaled by its World Bank internet rate. Territories with no internet figure contribute nothing, so this is a floor.
Concentration
54%
0%100%
Netherlands, the largest single territory, holds 54% of speakers. Spread out enough that regional wording and currency will come up.
Territories
10
7 where it is official nationally, 4 where at least one person in five speaks it. The rest are diaspora and minority populations, which CLDR does record.
Reachable GDP
$13.2T
Combined GDP of every territory where the language appears. It counts whole economies, not the speakers' share, so read it as an upper bound.
Translation rate
1.20×
1.0×1.6×+
About 20% above a mainstream pair, reflecting how many vendors work in it. It feeds the budget estimator.
Where Dutch is spoken
Every territory CLDR records, largest speaker count first. Share is of that territory's own population, so the column has no total.
| Territory | Share of that market | Speakers | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetherlandsNL | 100% | 17.8M | 17.2M | official |
| GermanyDE | 9% | 7.6M | 7.1M | minority or diaspora |
| BelgiumBE | 55% | 6.6M | 6.3M | official |
| SurinameSR | 90% | 582.1K | 508.7K | official |
| ArubaAW | 97% | 121.3K | 117.9K | official |
| CanadaCA | 0.3% | 116.4K | 109.8K | minority or diaspora |
| FranceFR | 0.2% | 88.9K | 78.8K | minority or diaspora |
| CuraçaoCW | 8% | 12.3K | 8.4K | official |
| Caribbean NetherlandsBQ | 8% | 1.6K | — | official |
| Sint MaartenSX | 3.4% | 1.6K | — | official |
CLDR does record diaspora populations, so a language usually appears in more territories than its home markets, at small shares. Those rows rarely justify a launch on their own, but they are why total reach runs higher than any one country page shows. A dash in the online column means no World Bank internet figure, not zero.
What it takes to ship
The work that is not translation.
Writing system
Latin
Lays out left to right, the same as the source. Platform default fonts cover this script.
Plural categories
2
Every counted message needs up to 2 arms, and the translator needs all of them.
Rate index
1.20×
Prices about 20% above a mainstream pair.