page_title: Somalis in the Netherlands
section_title: Demography
hierarchical_section_title: Somalis in the Netherlands / Demography
caption_attribution_description: English: A branch of the Somali money transfer company Abesha Telecom (Libaan Telecom) in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
context_page_description: Somalis in the Netherlands are residents or naturalized citizens of the Netherlands who are of Somali ancestry. They form one of the larger Somali communities in Europe.
context_section_description: As of 2009, Statistics Netherlands estimated the following figures with respect to Dutch people of Somali origin:
  15,281 persons of first-generation background (8,831 men, 6,850 women)
  6,517 persons of second-generation background (3,322 men, 3,195 women), of which:
  543 persons with one parent born in the Netherlands (273 men, 270 women)
  5,974 persons with both parents born out of the Netherlands (3,049 men, 2,925 women)
  For a total of 21,798 persons (11,753 men, 10,045 women). This represented roughly 9% growth over the 1996 total of 20,060 persons; the composition of the population had changed slightly, with the proportion of the population of second-generation background more than doubling over that time frame. The proportion of men has typically been greater than that of women. Most men are single without dependents, while most women are single mothers with one or more children. This is largely due to being only able to send certain family members to a different country.
caption: A branch of the Somali money transfer company Abesha Telecom (Libaan Telecom) in Rotterdam.
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