Arubans in the Netherlands explained

Group:Arubans in the Netherlands
Dutch; Flemish: Arubanen in Nederland
Population:23,800 (2013)
Langs:Dutch, Papiamento
Rels:Christianity

Arubans in the Netherlands are migrants from Aruba to the Netherlands and their descendants. Aruba was part of the former Netherlands Antilles until 1986 when the country seceded remaining a constituent country of Kingdom of the Netherlands. As of 2014, figures from Statistics Netherlands showed 142,953 people of Dutch Antillean origin in the Netherlands, of which 23,800 are Aruban.[1] The largest Aruban communities in the Netherlands can be found in Amsterdam, Almere, Haarlem, The Hague, Rotterdam, Alkmaar and Amersfoort.

Notable people

References

  1. Web site: CBS Statline. opendata.cbs.nl.