Croatian diaspora

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The Croatian diaspora (Croatian: Hrvatsko iseljeništvo or Hrvatsko rasuće[1][2]) consists of communities of ethnic Croats and/or Croatian citizens living outside Croatia. Estimates on its size are only approximate because of incomplete statistical records and naturalization, but (highest) estimates suggest that the Croatian diaspora numbers between a third[3] and a half[4] of the total number of Croats.

More than four million Croats live out of Croatia. The largest community outside Croatia are the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the constituent nations of that country, amounting to about 545,000. The Croatian diaspora outside Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina amounts to close to a million elsewhere in Europe, and to about 1.7 million overseas. The largest overseas community is reported from the United States at 1,200,000, Chile at 400,000, and Argentina with 250,000 people.[5]

In Western Europe, the largest group is found in Germany. The German census reports 228,000 Croats in Germany as of 2006, but estimates of the total number of people with direct Croatian ancestry (including naturalized German citizens) range as high as 500,000. There are also significant numbers of Croats in Australia (165,000) and New Zealand (up to 100,000).[6][7]

  1. ^ Vidmarović, Đuro (2009). Hrvatsko rasuće: teme iz hrvatske dijaspore (in Croatian). Naklada Bošković. ISBN 978-953-263-086-2.
  2. ^ Bašić Palković, Davor (24 July 2020). "Književne veze domovine i rasuća" [Literary connections of homeland and diaspora]. hrvatskarijec.rs (in Croatian). Hrvatska riječ. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Hrvati u svijetu" (in Croatian). Croatian Radiotelevision. Archived from the original on 29 June 2004.
  4. ^ "About Us". Croatian World Congress. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. ...4.5 million Croats and people of Croatian heritage live outside of the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina...
  5. ^ "Inmigración a Chile". Chilean-Croatian Cultural Corporation Domovina. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Hrvatski iseljenici u prekomorskim i europskim državama i njihovi potomci". template.gov.hr. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  7. ^ "U inozemstvu živi preko 3.2 milijuna Hrvata. Objavljen popis, u ovim državama ih je najviše". Retrieved 14 April 2024.