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By taking the total of all people with full Dutch ancestry, according to the current CBS definition (both parents born in the Netherlands), resulting in an estimated 16,000,000 Dutch people, [note 1] or by the sum of all people worldwide with both full and partial Dutch ancestry, which would result in a number around 33,000,000.
The Dutch diaspora consists of the Dutch and their descendants living outside the Netherlands. [1]Emigration from the Netherlands has been occurring for since at least the 17th century, and may be traced back to the international presence of the Dutch Empire and its monopoly on mercantile shipping in many parts of the world.
Dutch people of South American descent (7 C) This page was last edited on 11 February 2024, at 12:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
For the opposite, see Category:Dutch people by descent. Subcategories. This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. ...
Science, military and art (especially painting) were among the most acclaimed in the world. By 1650, the Dutch owned 16,000 merchant ships. [85] The Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company established colonies and trading posts all over the world. The Dutch settlement in North America began with the founding of New Amsterdam ...
The Dutch civil code stipulated that residents were only those people who were born to parents officially residing on Dutch territory. [29] Due to the colonial ambitions of the Netherlands, all those people who traveled abroad in official service of the country were considered to live in the Netherlands and were to be counted as residents.
A team analyzed information from a database called LifeLines which contains data about more than 94,500 northern Netherlands residents.
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