Almost one in four Brabant residents is of foreign origin. This is evident from figures from the Central Statistical Office. Last year, our province was home to around 2.6 million people, two million of whom had a Dutch passport.
It was announced on Thursday that around eighteen million people now live in the Netherlands. The Dutch population has grown in recent years only due to immigration from abroad, not because of an increased birth rate: fewer children are born than people die.
The largest groups of Brabanders of foreign origin came last year:
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Obviously the largest group of Brabanders of foreign origin are Europeans: approximately 250,000 of our county's residents come from another European country. The majority of this group are Polish, German or Belgian.
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Of all the municipalities in our province, Eindhoven outperforms all others: 44.4% of Eindhoven's inhabitants are of foreign origin. The majority are European, more than a third in total (36%). These are mainly people from Germany (4,835 people) and Poland (4,845 people). The next largest group of Eindhoven residents with foreign origin are from Asia (excluding Turkey and Indonesia), which amounts to around 12 percent of the total.
The least diversity can be found in Hilvarenbeek. Only ten percent of the population here is of foreign origin. Baarle-Nassau also stands out: in the municipality with the smallest population (7,076), 29.5 percent of the population is of foreign origin. Probably the majority of these are Belgians; eighty percent are European.
See the percentage of residents of foreign origin in your municipality here (click on the municipality to see the exact percentage):
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Statistics Netherlands defines the origin of people born in the Netherlands based on the country of birth of the parents. This only concerns the country of birth of the parents, not the grandparents. In other words, children of a family with an Indonesian mother living in the Netherlands are considered Indonesian. When they have children later, CBS uses the country of birth of the parents as a starting point – the Netherlands. This third generation is then classified as Dutch.
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