Are emigrants returning to the Caribbean Netherlands?

Between 2011 and 2016, there were2,480 emigrants born in the former Netherlands Antilles or Aruba. Almost4 out of 10 (38 percent) returned to the Caribbean Netherlands within seven years. The majority were away for one or two years.

Of the 1,954 Bonaire residents who were bornin the former Netherlands Antilles or Aruba and emigrated between 2011-2016, 39 percent had returned to the island seven years later. As for St Eustatius, 33 percent of the 382 emigrants had returned after seven years. On Saba,144 people emigrated between 2011-2016; seven years later, 38 percent had come back to the island.

Emigrants mainly went to the European Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and St Maarten.