English diaspora
| Total population | |
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| c. 100 million worldwide | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 England 37.6 million(67.1% of England identified themselves with an English identity) |
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 United States
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25.9M–49,598,035 |
 Australia
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7,238,533 |
 Canada
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6,570,015 |
 New Zealand
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44,202–281,895 |
| Languages | |
| English | |
| Religion | |
 Christianity: Predominately Protestantism (Anglicanism • Methodism • Baptists • Congregationalism • Other Protestants) • Mormonism • Roman Catholicism • Irreligious. |
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The English diaspora consists of English people and their descendants who emigrated from England. The diaspora is concentrated in the Anglosphere in countries such as United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and to a lesser extent, South Africa, South America (most notably in Argentina and Chile), and continental Europe.
The first organised large-scale English diaspora began when English Catholics exiled themselves from Henry VIII's religious policies to Hapsburg lands, especially the nearest Catholic intellectual centre, the University of Louvain which was by the late 1540s a bastion of ultra-orthodoxy. This was redoubled by a further wave of emigration under Edward VI's more radically Protestant regime.
After the Age of Discovery the peoples of England were among the earliest and by far the largest communities to emigrate out of Europe, and the British Empire's expansion during the first half of the 19th century saw an extraordinary dispersion of English people, with particular concentrations in North America and Australasia.
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