Total population | |
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419.272[1] (2022) c. 2.4% of the Dutch population | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Predominantly Randstad (70%), North Brabant, Limburg (16%) and Sint-Maarten (14%) [citation needed] | |
Languages | |
Berber (86%), Moroccan Arabic (14%), Dutch[2] | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Islam (98%) (Statista Survey)[3] Minority: Nonreligious (2%), Christianity (1%) (Statista Survey)[4][5] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Moroccans in Belgium |
Moroccans in the Netherlands (Dutch: Marokkanen in Nederland; Arabic: المغاربة في هولندا), also Moroccan Dutch (Marokkaanse Nederlanders) or Dutch Moroccans (Nederlandse Marokkanen), are citizens or residents of the Netherlands of Moroccan origin. They consist of immigrants from Morocco and their descendants, and form the second largest ethnic group in the Netherlands.[6][7]
This statistic displays the religious identification of the Moroccan-Dutch community in the Netherlands in 2015. Of the Moroccan-Dutch participants taking part in this survey, roughly 95 percent stated to consider themselves Muslims. One percent answered to see themselves as Christians.