European emigration
European emigration is the successive emigration waves from the European continent to other continents. The origins of the various European diasporas can be traced to the people who left the European nation states or stateless ethnic communities on the European continent.
Areas of European settlement | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| United States | 235,477,000 |
| Brazil | 88,252,121 |
| Argentina | 37,416,400 |
| Canada | 27,364,000 |
| Australia | 21,800,000 |
| Colombia | 21,500,000 |
| Venezuela | 13,169,000 |
| Mexico | 12,000,000 to 56,000,000 |
| Chile | 9,000,000 |
| Peru | 7,175,000 |
| Cuba | 7,160,000 |
| Israel | 4,620,000 |
| South Africa | 4,504,252 |
| Kazakhstan | 4,172,601 |
| Costa Rica | 4,000,000 |
| New Zealand | 3,372,708 |
| Uruguay | 3,101,095 |
| Dominican Republic | 1,900,000 |
| Guatemala | 1,780,000 |
| Paraguay | 1,750,000 |
| Nicaragua | 1,100,000 |
| El Salvador | 1,087,000 |
| Cyprus | 780,000 |
| Ecuador | 883,000 |
| Puerto Rico | 560,592 |
| Bolivia | 548,000 |
| Angola | 300,000 |
| Namibia | 150,000+ |
| Honduras | 120,000+ |
| Languages | |
| Languages of Europe (mostly English, Spanish, Portuguese, minority of French, Dutch, and Russian, also Polish, German and Italian) | |
| Religion | |
| Majority Christianity (mostly Catholic and Protestant, some Orthodox). Minority includes Islam and Judaism. Irreligion ยท Other Religions | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Europeans | |
From 1500 to the mid-20th century, 60-65 million people left Europe, of which less than 9% went to tropical areas (the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa).
From 1815 to 1932, 65 million people left Europe (with many returning home), primarily to areas of European settlement in North and South America, in addition to South Africa, 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. Most European emigrants to the New World came from Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
More contemporary, European emigration can also refer to emigration from one European country to another, especially in the context of the internal mobility in the European Union (intra-EU mobility) or mobility within the Eurasian Union.