European diaspora
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| (480,000,000 + 6.5% of the total world population (world population of 7.4 billion). (not counting partial European descent)) |
|
| Regions with significant populations | |
| White people ancestry worldwide | |
 United States
|
223,553,265 |
 Brazil
|
98,051,646 |
 Argentina
|
38,900,000 |
 Canada
|
25,186,890 |
 Australia
|
20,982,665 |
 Mexico
|
20,100,000+ |
 Colombia
|
18,519,500 |
 Venezuela
|
13,169,949 |
 Cuba
|
10,160,399 |
 South Africa
|
7,472,100 |
 Chile
|
3,5M-5,128,000 |
 Costa Rica
|
3,500,000 |
 New Zealand
|
3,381,076 |
 Uruguay
|
3,151,095 |
 Puerto Rico
|
3,064,862 |
 Guatemala
|
2,490,000 |
 Dominican Republic
|
2,000,000+ |
 Peru
|
1,4M - 4,4M+ |
 Bolivia
|
2,000,000+ |
 Ecuador
|
1,400,000+ |
 Paraguay
|
1,300,000+ |
 Nicaragua
|
1,000,000+ |
| Languages | |
|
Languages of Europe (mostly English and Spanish minoritily Portuguese and French) |
|
| Religion | |
|
 Jewish ·  Muslim ·  Buddhist ·  Hinduism
|
|
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Europeans | |
Majority Christianity
(mostly Catholic and Protestant, some Orthodox)
Irreligion · Other Religions
The European diaspora consists of European emigration and their descendants who emigrated from Europe and played a key role, particularly in the Americas and Australia.
From 1815 to 1932, 60 million people left Europe (with many returning home), primarily to "areas of European settlement" in the Americas (especially to the United States, Canada, Argentina and Brazil), Australia, New Zealand and Siberia. These populations also multiplied rapidly in their new habitat; much more so than the populations of Africa and Asia. As a result, on the eve of World War One, 38% of the world’s total population was of European ancestry.
The discovery of the Americas in 1492 stimulated a steady stream of voluntary migration from Europe. About 200,000 Spaniards settled in their American colonies prior to 1600, a small settlement compared to the 3 to 4 million Amerindians who lived in Spanish territory in the Americas but then it grew the number of Spanish immigrants in addition to other European population of Romance language (French and Italian). In Brazil the European emigration remained very small in the first two centuries of colonization: between 1500 and 1700, only 100,000 Portuguese settled there. However, the development of the mining economy in the 18th century raised the wages and employment opportunities in the Portuguese colony and the emigration grew: in the 18th century alone, about 600,000 Portuguese settled in Brazil, a mass emigration given that Portugal had a population of only 2 million people. In North America the immigration was dominated by British, Irish and other Northern Europeans.
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