British diaspora

British diaspora
Total population
Estimated at 200 million[1]
Regions with significant populations
United States109,531,643
(up to 33% of population)[A][4]
Australia19,301,379
(up to 76% of population)[B][5]
Canada17,325,860
(up to 48% of population)[C][7]
New Zealand3,372,708
(up to 70.2% of population)[D][9]
South Africa1,600,000
(4% of population)[10]
France150,000-400,000 (2017)[11]
Spain297,229 (2014)[12]
Argentina270,000 (2015)[13][14][15]
Germany178,000 (2021)[16]
India300,000 (2023)[17]
Languages
Predominantly English
Also: Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Scots, Ulster Scots, Cornish, Manx, British Sign Language
Religion
Predominantly Christianity (Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Catholic, etc.)[18]

The British diaspora consists of people of English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Cornish, Manx and Channel Islands ancestral descent who live outside of the United Kingdom and its Crown Dependencies.

In 2008, the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office estimated that at least 80% of New Zealanders had some British ancestry, however at the 2018 census only 70% of New Zealanders identified as having some European ancestry.[8][9] Up to 76% of Australians, 48% of Canadians, 33% of Americans, and 3% of South Africans have ancestry from the British Isles. Additionally, at least 270,000 Argentines have some British ancestry.[13][14][15] More than 300,000 Anglo-Indians have some British ancestry, but comprise less than 0.1% of India's population.[19][7][10][20]

The British diaspora includes about 200 million people worldwide.[1] Other countries with over 100,000 British expatriates include the Republic of Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates.[21][22]

  1. ^ a b Richards, Eric (14 May 2004). Britannia's Children: Emigration from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland Since 1600. London: A&C Black (published 2004). pp. 3–4. ISBN 9781852854416. Retrieved 2 November 2020. [...] even the basic outline of the diaspora remains vague. It was never a controlled movement and it was mostly poorly documented. Migrants are always difficult to categorise and to count. [...] The scale of the modern British dispersion has been estimated at about 200 million, [...] or, counting those who can claim descent from British and Irish emigrants, more than three times the current population of the British Isles.
  2. ^ Ancestry of the Population by State: 1980 (Supplementary Report PC80-S1-10) Issued: April 1983
  3. ^ Dominic Pulera (2004). Sharing the Dream: White Males in Multicultural America. A&C Black. pp. 57–60. ISBN 978-0-8264-1643-8.
  4. ^ "Detailed Races and Ethnicities in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2020 Census". United States census. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Census of Population and Housing: Cultural diversity data summary, 2021" (XLSX). Abs.gov.au. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Feature Article – Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Australia (Feature Article)". 1301.0 – Year Book Australia, 1995. Commonwealth of Australia. Australian Bureau of Statistics.
  7. ^ a b Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (8 February 2017). "Census Profile, 2016 Census - Canada [Country] and Canada [Country]". www12.statcan.gc.ca.
  8. ^ a b "Country Profile: New Zealand". 14 May 2008. Archived from the original on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  9. ^ a b "2018 Census totals by topic – national highlights". Stats NZ. 23 September 2019. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  10. ^ a b Census 2011: Census in brief (PDF). Pretoria: Statistics South Africa. 2012. p. 26. ISBN 9780621413885. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2015. The number of people who described themselves as white in terms of population group and specified their first language as English in South Africa's 2011 Census was 1,603,575. The total white population with a first language specified was 4,461,409, and the total population was 51,770,560.
  11. ^ "From Le Monde: 254 percent surge in Britons seeking French citizenship as Brexit looms". France 24. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  12. ^ "End to Mediterranean dream for 90,000 Britons who left Spain last year". The Telegraph. 22 April 2014.
  13. ^ a b "150th anniversary of Welsh voyage to Patagonia". ITV. 30 May 2015. The community still exists in Argentina today, with a population of more than 70,000.
  14. ^ a b Gilchrist, Jim (14 December 2008). "Stories of Homecoming - We're on the march with Argentina's Scots". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  15. ^ a b Chavez, Lydia (23 June 1985). "Fare of the country: A bit of Britain in Argentina". The New York Times.
  16. ^ "Bevölkerung in Privathaushalten nach Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn nach Geburtsstaat in Staatengruppen".
  17. ^ "The young Anglo-Indians retracing their European roots". 20 February 2023 – via www.bbc.com.
  18. ^ 2011 Census: Ethnic group, local authorities in England and Wales, Accessed 13 June 2014
  19. ^ "Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG), 2019 | Australian Bureau of Statistics". 18 December 2019.
  20. ^ "The young Anglo-Indians retracing their European roots". 20 February 2023. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  21. ^ "The other special relationship: the UAE and the UK – The National".
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