European emigration
| 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 | |
 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
|
13,094,085 |
 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, Spanish, minoritily Portuguese and French) | |
| Religion | |
 Majority Christianity(mostly Catholic and Protestant, some Orthodox) Irreligion · Other Religions |
|
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Europeans | |
European emigration or European diaspora consists of the people and their descendants who have emigrated from Europe.
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, Brazil, the Southern Cone such as Argentina, and Uruguay), 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 I, 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 (primarily Portuguese, less so French and Italian).
Roughly one and a half million Europeans settled in the New World between 1500 and 1800 (see table). However, very small compared to emigration in the nineteenth and twentieth century, nevertheless the size movement in early modern populations is substantial.
During the 1500s Spain and Portugal sent a steady flow of government and church officials, members of the lesser nobility, people from the working classes and their families averaging roughly three-thousand people per year from a population of around eight million. A total of around 437,000 left Spain in the 150-year period from 1500 to 1650 to Central, South America and the Caribbean Islands, while only 100,000 Portuguese settled mainly in Brazil, the emigration remained very small in the first two centuries between 1500 and 1700.
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