Polity · 1815 CE – 2010 CE

Netherlands Antilles

Nederlandse Antillen

Peak recorded area: 149,129 km²; 1820 CE
Rulers on record: 19; from 1951 CE
Data series: 15; 1890 CE–2010 CE
Sources cited: 4; see all

Overview

The Netherlands Antilles, also known as the Dutch Antilles, was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, and Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao in the Leeward Antilles.

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Territory

14 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.

See the 1820 CE borders on the map →

The record

The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 2010 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.

People

People series recorded for Netherlands Antilles, each with the year the value belongs to and the source it came from
Series	Value · year · source
Community Size	1ordinal1900 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)

Economy

6 of 8 series

Economy series recorded for Netherlands Antilles, each with the year the value belongs to and the source it came from
Series	Value · year · source
Energy per capita31 obs · 1980 CE–2010 CE	259.1KkWh2010 CE · Our World in Data Energy
Primary Energy Consumption31 obs · 1980 CE–2010 CE	51.31TWh2010 CE · Our World in Data Energy
Subsistence Agriculture3 obs · 1890 CE–1920 CE	5ordinal1920 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)
Subsistence Fishing3 obs · 1890 CE–1920 CE	2ordinal1920 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)
Subsistence Gathering3 obs · 1890 CE–1920 CE	1ordinal1920 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)
Subsistence Hunting3 obs · 1890 CE–1920 CE	2ordinal1920 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)

Territory & resources

Territory & resources series recorded for Netherlands Antilles, each with the year the value belongs to and the source it came from
Series	Value · year · source
Coal Production31 obs · 1980 CE–2010 CE	0TWh2010 CE · Our World in Data Energy
Gas Production31 obs · 1980 CE–2010 CE	0TWh2010 CE · Our World in Data Energy
Oil Production31 obs · 1980 CE–2010 CE	0TWh2010 CE · Our World in Data Energy

Governance

Governance series recorded for Netherlands Antilles, each with the year the value belongs to and the source it came from
Series	Value · year · source
Jurisdictional Hierarchy2 obs · 1900 CE–1920 CE	3ordinal1920 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)
Political Succession	2ordinal1920 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)

Development

Development series recorded for Netherlands Antilles, each with the year the value belongs to and the source it came from
Series	Value · year · source
Class Stratification2 obs · 1900 CE–1920 CE	1ordinal1920 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)

Rulers

19 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.

Moises Frumencio da Costa GomezPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1951 CE – 1954 CE
Efraïn JonckheerPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1954 CE – 1968 CE
Ciro KroonPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1968 CE – 1969 CE
Ernesto PetroniaPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1969 CE – 1971 CE
Gerald SprockelPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1969 CE
Otto BeaujonPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1971 CE – 1972 CE
Ronchi IsaPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1971 CE
Juancho EvertszPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1973 CE – 1977 CE
Boy RozendalPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1977 CE – 1979 CE
Leo ChancePrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1977 CE
Lucina da Costa Gomez-MatheeuwsPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1977 CE
Don MartinaPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1979 CE – 1984 CE
Alejandro Felippe PaulaPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1993 CE – 1994 CE
Suzanne RömerPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1993 CE
Miguel PourierPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles1994 CE – 1998 CE
Etienne YsPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles2002 CE – 2003 CE
Ben KomproePrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles2003 CE
Mirna Louisa-GodettPrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles2003 CE – 2004 CE
Emily de Jongh-ElhagePrime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles2006 CE – 2010 CE

Language & currency

Official & national languages: Dutch, English, Papiamento
Currency: Netherlands Antillean guilder (ANG)

Sources

Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.

Cliopatria
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)Ethnographic Atlas (D-PLACE 2.3)
Kirby, K.R. et al. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7).
CC BY 4.0
Our World in Data Energy2024
Our World in Data (2024). Energy dataset. Based on Energy Institute & Ember.
CC BY 4.0
Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0

Netherlands Antilles is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.

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