more dutch speakers i would say about million people speak dutch rahter than million netherlands million belgium million suriname antilles other communities million total million anonymous i don't know where you get those numbers where comes the million number population antilles aruba suriname the population of these three regions doesnt reach one million and dutch is definetly not a national language in these places plus the netherlands and belgium have a lot of immigrants so i belive more in the million figure rather than the million one july utc there are for example probably about million native speakers in the netherlands once you sutract immigrants frisian limburgish and other germanic language speakers suriname definitely isn't natively dutch speaking some of the languages there are closer to english if you can even recognize gbe for 'leave' as derived from english so million may be a rather generous number july utc