Editing German diaspora (section)

== Distribution ==
Ethnic Germans are a minority group in many countries. The following sections briefly detail the historical and present distribution of ethnic Germans by region, but generally exclude modern [[expatriate]]s, who have a presence in the United States, [[Scandinavia]] and major urban areas worldwide. People of partial German ancestry form an important minority group in several countries, including [[Demographics of Canada|Canada]] (roughly 10% of the population), Argentina (roughly 8% of the population), Brazil (roughly 3% of the population),<ref>{{cite web|last1=Levy|first1=Maria Stella Ferreira|title=O Papel Da Migração Internacional Na Evolução Da População Brasileira (1872 a 1972)|url=http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rsp/v8s0/03.pdf|page=57|date=1974}}</ref> [[Demographics of Australia|Australia]] (roughly 4.5% of the population),<ref name="ABS">{{cite web|url=http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/2071.0main+features902012-2013 |title=Reflecting a Nation: Stories from the 2011 Census, 2012–2013 |publisher=[[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] |work=2011 Census|date=21 June 2012 |access-date=2013-03-19}}</ref> [[Chile]] (roughly 3% of the population), 
[[Demographics of Namibia|Namibia]] and in [[Central Europe|central]] and eastern Europe—([[Demographics of Poland|Poland]], [[Demographics of Hungary|Hungary]], [[Demographics of Romania|Romania]], and [[Demographics of Russia|Russia]]).

Distribution of German citizens and people claiming German ancestry (figures are only estimates and actual population could be higher, because of misleadingly formulated questions in censuses in various countries (for example in Poland)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubczasopismo.salon24.pl/niemcy/post/414105,ilu-niemcow-w-slazakach |language=pl |title=Number of Germans in Silesia (difficulties with the latest census) |date=3 May 2012 |publisher=Lubczasopismo.salon24.pl |access-date=2013-01-07}}</ref> and other different factors, f.e. related to participant in a census):

{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:right"
|-
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" data-sort-type="number" |[[Ethnic Germans|German ancestry]]
! scope="col" data-sort-type="number" |[[Germans Abroad|German citizens]]
! scope="col" | Comments
|-

|-
! scope="row" | United States
| 46,882,727 (2012)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_1YR_B04003&prodType=table|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150128195215/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_1YR_B04003&prodType=table|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-01-28|title=American FactFinder - Results|publisher=United States Census Bureau|website=factfinder2.census.gov}}</ref><ref group="note">This is an [[American Community Survey]] estimate, not a [[United States census]] number.</ref>
|132,000 (2019)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://auswandern-info.com/usa|title=Auswandern in die USA 2024 – Infos zur Einwanderung|website=Auswandern Info|accessdate=2024-08-15}}</ref>
| See [[German American]], the largest German population outside Germany.
|-
! scope="row" | Brazil
| 5,000,000<small>(2011)</small> to 12,000,000<small>(2000)</small><ref name="Deutsche-Welle-quote">{{cite web|url=http://www.passeiweb.com/na_ponta_lingua/sala_de_aula/geografia/geografia_do_brasil/demografia_imigracoes/brasil_imigracoes_alemanha|publisher=passeiweb.com|work=Deustche Welle|title=Demografia – Imigrações: A imigração alemã|trans-title=Demographics – Immigration: German immigration|language=pt|access-date=2016-02-12|quote=Germans represent approximately 5% of immigrants seeking a new homeland in Brazil. Over a period of more than a hundred years, approximately 250,000 Germans have arrived in Brazil. Currently, it is estimated German descendants number at five million on Brazilian soil.|archive-date=15 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715050625/http://www.passeiweb.com/na_ponta_lingua/sala_de_aula/geografia/geografia_do_brasil/demografia_imigracoes/brasil_imigracoes_alemanha|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160226114236/http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/3/a-little-piece-ofgermanyintheheartofbrazil.html</ref>
|40,980 
| See [[German Brazilian]], the second largest German population outside Germany.
|-
! scope="row" | Argentina
| 3,500,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cacw.com.ar/sitio/notas_detalle.php?id=NTk= |title=Centro Argentino Cultural Wolgadeutsche |access-date=2011-05-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006142933/http://www.cacw.com.ar/sitio/notas_detalle.php?id=NTk%3D |archive-date=6 October 2011}}</ref><ref name="GermanArgentine">{{cite web|url=http://www.embajada-alemana.org.ar/culturas/becas1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213071340/http://www.embajada-alemana.org.ar/culturas/becas1.htm |archive-date=13 February 2010 |date=13 February 2010 |access-date=2 August 2012|title=Argentina - Embajada de Alemania en Argentina }}</ref><ref name="Buenosaires.gob.ar">{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/secretaria_gral/colectividades/?col=1 |title=Obsevatorio de Colectividades&nbsp;– Comunidad Alemana |publisher=Buenosaires.gob.ar |access-date=28 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128203016/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/secretaria_gral/colectividades/?col=1 |archive-date=28 November 2011 }}</ref>{{efn|Includes Volga Germans, German Swiss, Mennonites, and Baltic Germans.}}
| 9,000<ref name="GermanArgentine" />
| See [[German Argentine]].
|-
! scope="row" | Canada
| 3,322,405 (2016)<ref>[https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=110528&PRID=10&PTYPE=109445&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2017&THEME=120&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF= 2016 Canadian Census], see [[List of Canadians by ethnicity]].</ref>
|146,000
| See [[German Canadian]].
|-
! scope="row" | South Africa
| 1,200,000 <small>(2009)</small><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/meadows/7589/intro_en.html |title=Germans in South Africa |publisher=Webcitation.org |access-date=28 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009211626/http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/meadows/7589/intro_en.html |archive-date=9 October 2009}}</ref><ref>Professor JA Heese in his book Die Herkoms van die Afrikaner (''The Origins of Afrikaners'') claims the modern [[Afrikaner]]s (who total around 3.5&nbsp;million) have 34.4% German heritage. [http://africanhistory.about.com/od/southafrica/p/AfrikanerGene.htm How 'Pure' was the Average Afrikaner?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013012659/http://africanhistory.about.com/od/southafrica/p/AfrikanerGene.htm |date=13 October 2012 }}</ref><ref group="note">Afrikaners are predominantly of Dutch, but also of German and English ancestries.</ref>
|17,000<ref name="migrationpolicy">[https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-and-emigrant-populations-country-origin-and-destination Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country of Origin and Destination]</ref>
| See [[Afrikaners]] and [[Germans in South Africa|German South African]].
|-
! scope="row" | Australia
| 1,026,138 (2021)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/AUS | title=2021 Australia, Census All persons QuickStats|website=Australian Bureau of Statistics|accessdate=27 July 2022}}</ref>
| 107,940
| See [[German Australian]].
|-
! scope="row" | France
| 1,000,000 (2010)<ref>{{cite web|author=Vladimir Geroimenko |url=http://www.ling.gu.se/projekt/sprakfrageladan/english/varldskarta/eng-fra.html |title=France |publisher=Ling.gu.se |access-date=28 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.everyculture.com/Europe/Alsatians.html |title=Alsatians |publisher=Everyculture.com |date=16 January 2010 |access-date=28 September 2011}}</ref><ref group="note">This number represents native [[Alsatian language|Alsatian]] speakers.</ref>
| 130,000<ref>[https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/germany/france-and-germany/ France and Germany]. ''Ministère de l'Europe et des affaires étrangères''.</ref>
| See [[Germans in France|German French]].
|-
! scope="row" | Chile
| 500,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.com/es/alemanes-en-chile-entre-el-pasado-colono-y-el-presente-empresarial/a-14958983-1|title=Alemanes en Chile: entre el pasado colono y el presente empresarial - DW - 31.03.2011|website=DW.COM}}</ref>
|8,515
| See [[German Chilean]].
|-
! scope="row" | Switzerland
| see note<ref group="note">Depends on definition; see [[Swiss people]].</ref>
|450,000
| See [[German immigration to Switzerland|German Swiss]] and [[Swiss people]].
|-
! scope="row" | Russia
| 394,138 (2010){{efn|The majority of German Russians came from former [[Prussia]].}}
|142,000<ref name="migrationpolicy"/>
| See [[History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union|German Russian]] (e.g. [[Volga Germans]], [[Caucasus Germans]], [[Black Sea Germans]] and [[Crimea Germans]]).
|-
! scope="row" | Bolivia
| 375,000 (2014)<ref name="WorldStatesMen-Bo">{{cite web|title=Bolivia|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Bolivia.html|publisher=WorldStatesMen|access-date=16 June 2013|quote=white 10% (of which German 3%) (2001)}}</ref>
|
| See [[Ethnic Germans in Bolivia|German Bolivian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Netherlands
| 372,720 (2013)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/CCD504EA-9D41-40C2-AE28-BFB0A51C2045/0/2005k3b15p096art.pdf|title=Demografie van de allochtonen in Nederland|publisher=[[Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek]]|author=Garssen, Joop, Han Nicolaas and Arno Sprangers|year=2005|language=nl|access-date=2 July 2011|archive-date=9 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009222941/https://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/CCD504EA-9D41-40C2-AE28-BFB0A51C2045/0/2005k3b15p096art.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="cbs.nl">{{cite web|url=http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?DM=SLEN&PA=37325eng&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0-1,84,102,139,145,210,225&D6=a&LA=EN&HDR=G2,G3,G4,T&STB=G1,G5&VW=T|title=CBS StatLine - Population; sex, age, migration background and generation, 1 January|website=statline.cbs.nl}}</ref>
| 79,470<ref>[https://auswandern-info.com/niederlande Niederlande]. ''Auswandern Info''.</ref>
|See [[Germany–Netherlands relations|German Dutch]].
|-
! scope="row" | Italy
| 314,604 (2011)<ref>{{cite web|title=astat info Nr. 38 |work=Table 1&nbsp;— Declarations of which language group belong to/affiliated to&nbsp;— Population Census 2011 |url=http://www.provinz.bz.it/astat/de/service/256.asp?news_action=300&news_image_id=562996|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812062733/http://www.statisticsbelize.org.bz/dms20uc/dynamicdata/docs/20110505004542_2.pdf |archive-date=12 August 2011 }}</ref><ref group="note">This number counts only Germans in South Tyrol.</ref>
|35,000<ref>[https://auswandern-info.com/italien Italien]. ''Auswandern Info''.</ref>
| See [[German-Italian relations|German Italian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Paraguay
| 290,000 (2000)<ref name="WorldStatesMen-Py" />
|
|See [[German Paraguayan]].
|-
! scope="row" | United Kingdom
| 273,654 (2011)<ref>German born only; [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/dec/14/german-born-population-uk-census Britain's German-born population prefers life under the radar]</ref><ref group="note">This figure includes children born to British Military personnel serving on British Military bases in Germany</ref>
| 92,000<ref>2008, 0.15% of UK population. [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/Pop_country_of_birth_and_nationality_Apr07_Mar08.zip statistics.gov.uk] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628204328/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/Pop_country_of_birth_and_nationality_Apr07_Mar08.zip |date=28 June 2011 }}</ref>
| See [[German migration to the United Kingdom|German Briton]].
|-
! scope="row" | Uruguay
|250,000 (2014)<ref>{{cite web |last=Amt |first=Auswärtiges |title=Federal Foreign Office - Federal Foreign Office |url=http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/Aussenpolitik/Laender/Laenderinfos/01-Nodes/Uruguay_node.html |website=Auswärtiges Amt DE}}</ref>
|6,000<ref>{{cite web |title=There are 6,000 Germans living in Uruguay today and 40,000 descendants of Germans |url=http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/es/Laenderinformationen/01-Laender/Uruguay.html |access-date=28 September 2011 |publisher=Auswaertiges-amt.de |language=de}}</ref>
|See [[German Uruguayan]].
|-
! scope="row" | Peru
| 240,000<ref>{{in lang|de}} [http://www.peru-spiegel.de/Peruanische-Bevoelkerung/Deutsche-Einwanderung-in-Peru.htm Deutsche Einwanderung in Peru] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015005717/http://www.peru-spiegel.de/Peruanische-Bevoelkerung/Deutsche-Einwanderung-in-Peru.htm |date=15 October 2017 }}</ref>
|
| See [[German Peruvian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Kazakhstan
| 178,409 (2009)<ref name="Перепись населения Казахстана (2009)">[https://web.archive.org/web/20181118072949/http://www.stat.kz/p_perepis/Documents/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%9F%D0%9D2009_161110%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81.doc Перепись населения Казахстана (2009)]</ref>
|
| See [[Germans of Kazakhstan|German Kazakhstani]].
|-
! scope="row" | Hungary
| 131,951 (2011)<ref>[http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/idoszaki/nepsz2011/nepsz_03_00_2011.pdf Hungarian census 2011 - final data and methodology]</ref>
|[[Germans of Hungary|178,000]]
| see [[Germans of Hungary|German Hungarian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Austria
| Depends on definition; see [[Austrians]].
| 170,475<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/menschen_und_gesellschaft/bevoelkerung/bevoelkerungsstruktur/bevoelkerung_nach_staatsangehoerigkeit_geburtsland/index.html|title=Bevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeit und Geburtsland|first=STATISTIK|last=AUSTRIA|website=www.statistik.at}}</ref>
| See [[Austrians|German Austrian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Poland
| 148,000 (2011)<ref>''[http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/Przynaleznosc_narodowo-etniczna_w_2011_NSP.pdf Przynależność narodowo-etniczna ludności&nbsp;– wyniki spisu ludności i mieszkań 2011]''. GUS. Materiał na konferencję prasową w dniu 29. 01. 2013. p. 3. {{Retrieved|access-date=2013-03-06}}</ref>
|120,000
| See [[German minority in Poland|German Pole]].
|-
! scope="row" | Spain
| 138,917 (2014)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10781350/End-to-Mediterranean-dream-for-90000-Britons-who-left-Spain-last-year.html|title=End to Mediterranean dream for 90,000 Britons who left Spain last year|first=Fiona|last=Govan|date=22 April 2014|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>
|112,000<ref>[https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aussenpolitik/spain/227984 Germany and Spain: Bilateral relations] (2024-03-01). ''Auswärtiges Amt''.</ref>
| See [[Germany-Spain relations|German Spaniard]].
|-
! scope="row" | Sweden
|115,550 (2013)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statistikmyndigheten SCB - Meddelande om underhåll, Statistics Sweden - Notice of maintenance |url=https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/befolkning/befolkningens-sammansattning/befolkningsstatistik/pong/tabell-och-diagram/helarsstatistik--riket/befolkning-efter-fodelseland-och-ursprungsland/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031100742/https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/befolkning/befolkningens-sammansattning/befolkningsstatistik/pong/tabell-och-diagram/helarsstatistik--riket/befolkning-efter-fodelseland-och-ursprungsland/ |archive-date=31 October 2020 |access-date=28 November 2019}}</ref>
|20,000<ref>[https://www.wohin-auswandern.de/auswandern-nach-schweden Auswandern nach Schweden.]</ref>
|See [[Germany–Sweden relations|German Swede]].
|-
! scope="row" | Israel
|
| 100,000<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4076384,00.html |title=Money overcomes ideology as Israelis hunt down German passports&#124; Yediot Ahronot &#124; 31.05.2011 |work=Ynetnews |date=20 June 1995 |access-date=28 September 2011|last1=Brot |first1=Tzvika }}</ref>
| See [[Sarona (colony)]], [[German Colony, Haifa]] and [[German Colony, Jerusalem]].
|-
! scope="row" | Mexico
| 75,000 (2010)<ref>Burchard, Gretha (abril de 2010) "The German Population in Mexico: Maintenance of German culture and integration into Mexican society".(PDF)http://theses.cz/id/81fufh/104485-521182131.pdf</ref>
|
|See [[German Mexican]].
|-
! scope="row" | Belgium
| 73,000 (2008)<ref group="note">Approximately 73,000 people constitute the [[German-speaking Community of Belgium]].</ref>
|29,324<ref>[https://www.belgieninfo.net/immer-mehr-deutschsprachige-auslaender-in-belgien/ Immer mehr deutschsprachige Ausländer in Belgien] (2019-04-02). ''BelgienInfo''.</ref>
| See [[German-speaking Community of Belgium|German Belgian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Romania
| {{circa}} 22,900 (as per the [[2021 Romanian census]])<ref>{{cite web|language=ro|url=https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/recensamant-2022-romania-are-19-053-815-locuitori-tara-noastra-a-pierdut-peste-un-milion-de-locuitori-fata-de-acum-10-ani-2199695|title=Recensământ 2022. România are 19.053.815 locuitori. Țara noastră a pierdut peste un milion de locuitori față de acum 10 ani|author=Bogdan Păcurar|work=Digi24.ro|date=30 December 2022|accessdate=30 December 2022}}</ref>
| 34,071 (according to [[Eurostat]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-datasets/-/migr_pop3ctb |title=Population on 1 January by age group, sex and country of birth |work=Eurostat}}</ref>
| See [[Germans of Romania|German Romanian]] (e.g. [[Transylvanian Saxons]], [[Banat Swabians]], [[Sathmar Swabians]], [[Bukovina Germans]], or [[Zipser Germans]]).
|-
! scope="row" | Ukraine
|33,302 (2001)
|
|See [[Black Sea Germans]] and [[Crimea Germans]].
|-
! scope="row" | Namibia
|30,000 (2013)<ref>{{cite web |date=14 August 2013 |title=Namibia Restores An African Name To Historic Caprivi Strip |url=http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2013/aug/14/namibia-restores-african-name-historic-caprivi-str/}}</ref>
|
|See [[German Namibian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Dominican Republic
|25,000<ref>{{cite web |title=Dominican Republic |url=http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Laender/DominikanischeRepublik.html |access-date=28 September 2011 |publisher=Auswaertiges-amt.de |language=de}}</ref>
|1,792 (2012)<ref name="German-expats_DO">{{cite news |last=Martínez |first=Darlenny |date=2 May 2013 |title=Estudio: en RD viven 534,632 extranjeros |language=es |newspaper=El Caribe |url=http://www.elcaribe.com.do/2013/05/02/estudio-viven-534632-extranjeros |access-date=29 May 2014 |quote=Según la Primera Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes de la República Dominicana (ENI-2012), (...) Después de Haití, explica la investigación, las 10 naciones de donde proceden más inmigrantes son Estados Unidos, con 13,524; España, con 6,720, y Puerto Rico, con 4,416. Además Italia, con 4,040; China, con 3,643; Francia, con 3,599; Venezuela, con 3,434; Cuba con 3,145 inmigrantes; Colombia con 2,738 y Alemania con 1,792.}}</ref>
|
|-
! scope="row" | Norway
| 25,000 (2012)<ref>[http://www.ssb.no/emner/02/01/10/innvbef/tab-2012-04-26-04.html Personer med innvandringsbakgrunn, etter innvandringskategori, landbakgrunn og kjønn. 1. januar 2012] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918155443/http://www.ssb.no/emner/02/01/10/innvbef/tab-2012-04-26-04.html |date=18 September 2012 }} [[Statistics Norway]], retrieved 11 January 2013</ref>
|10,000 <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Birgit Muth |first=Bayerischer Rundfunk |date=2017-12-09 |title=Norwegen: Sehnsucht nach dem Norden |url=https://www.br.de/br-fernsehen/sendungen/euroblick/euroblick-norwegen-deutsche-100.html |language=de}}</ref>
| See [[Germany-Norway relations|German Norwegian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Czech Republic
| 18,772 (2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radio.cz/en/article/27184 |title=Ethnic German Minorities in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia |date=23 April 2002 |publisher=Radio.cz |access-date=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|21,267
| See [[Germans in the Czech Republic|German Czech]] and [[Sudeten Germans]].
|-
! scope="row" | Portugal
|Unknown
|20,500 (2022)<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=SEFSTAT |url=https://www.sef.pt/pt/Documents/RIFA2022%20vF2a.pdf}}</ref>
|In addition, around 400 Germans have acquired [[Portuguese nationality law|Portuguese citizenship]] since 2008.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Portal do INE |url=https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&indOcorrCod=0008370&contexto=bd&selTab=tab2&xlang=pt |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=www.ine.pt}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | Greece
|
| 15,498<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/A1604/Other/A1604_SAP03_TB_DC_00_2001_09_F_GR.pdf |title=Greeks Census 2001 |access-date=28 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114090629/http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/A1604/Other/A1604_SAP03_TB_DC_00_2001_09_F_GR.pdf |archive-date=14 November 2010}}</ref>
| See [[Greece-Germany relations|German Greek]].
|-
! scope="row" | Guyana
| 13,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cacw.com.ar/sitio/notas_detalle.php?id=NTk= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006142933/http://www.cacw.com.ar/sitio/notas_detalle.php?id=NTk%3D |archive-date=6 October 2011| title=CACW - Centro Argentino Cultural "WOLGADEUTSCHE" }}</ref><ref name="GermanArgentine" /><ref name="Buenosaires.gob.ar" />
|15,000<ref name="GermanArgentine" />
|See [[Germany–Guyana relations|German Guyanese]].
|-
! scope="row" | Denmark
| 15,000<ref>[http://www.bdn.dk/SEEEMS/4.asp Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316100649/http://www.bdn.dk/SEEEMS/4.asp|date=16 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.nordschleswig.dk/SEEEMS/417.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326122618/http://www.nordschleswig.dk/SEEEMS/417.asp |archive-date=26 March 2013 |access-date=2014-05-27}}</ref>
|15,000<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130326122618/http://www.nordschleswig.dk/SEEEMS/417.asp {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>
|See [[North Schleswig Germans]].
|-
! scope="row" | New Zealand
| 12,810 (2013)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Taonga |first=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu |title=Germans |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/germans/page-6 |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=teara.govt.nz |language=en}}</ref>
|
| See [[German New Zealander]].
|-
! scope="row" | Cuba
| 12,387
|
| See [[German Cuban]].
|-
! scope="row" | India
|~11,000
|
|See [[Germans in India|German Indian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Luxembourg
|Depends on definition; see [[Luxembourgers]].
|12,000
|See [[Luxembourgers|German Luxembourger]].
|-
! scope="row" | Ireland
|10,000 (2006)<ref>[http://www.cso.ie/statistics/placebirthagegroup.htm CSO Ireland - ''Persons usually resident and present in the State on Census Night (2006), classified by place of birth and age group''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812062733/http://www.cso.ie/statistics/placebirthagegroup.htm|date=12 August 2011}}</ref>
|11,305<ref name="CSO Emigration">{{cite web |title=CSO Emigration |url=http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/documents/census2011profile6/Profile%206%20Migration%20and%20Diversity%20Commentary.pdf |access-date=29 January 2013 |publisher=Census Office Ireland}}</ref>
|See [[Germany–Ireland relations|German Irish]].
|-
! scope="row" | Belize
|10,865 (2010)<ref>[http://www.statisticsbelize.org.bz/dms20uc/dynamicdata/docs/20110505004542_2.pdf 2010 Population and Housing Census Housing Characteristics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611211131/http://www.statisticsbelize.org.bz/dms20uc/dynamicdata/docs/20110505004542_2.pdf|date=11 June 2012}}</ref>
|
|See [[Mennonites in Belize]].
|-
! scope="row" | Costa Rica
| 10,000
|
|See [[Immigration to Costa Rica|German Costa Rican]].
|-
! scope="row" | Guatemala
| Unknown<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cobanav.net/folk_select.php?key=7|title=Spend Relaxingly|website=www.cobanav.net|access-date=11 May 2015|archive-date=20 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120100008/http://cobanav.net/folk_select.php?key=7|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| 7,000–10,000 (2010)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.guatemala.diplo.de/Vertretung/guatemala/de/Startseite.html |title=Deutsche Botschaft Guatemala - Startseite |access-date=7 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114074457/http://www.guatemala.diplo.de/Vertretung/guatemala/de/Startseite.html |archive-date=14 January 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| See [[German Guatemalan]].
|-
! scope="row" | Slovakia
|5,000–10,000<ref>{{cite web |title=Slovakia |url=http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Laenderinformationen/01-Laender/Slowakei.html |access-date=28 September 2011 |publisher=Auswaertiges-amt.de |language=de}}</ref>
|
|See [[Carpathian Germans]] and [[Zipser Germans]].
|-
! scope="row" | Finland
|8,894 (2019)<ref>{{Cite web |title=United Nations Population Division &#124; Department of Economic and Social Affairs |url=https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimates19.asp}}</ref>
|4,102 (2018)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Väestö 31.12. Muuttujina Alue, Kansalaisuus, Sukupuoli, Vuosi ja Tiedot |url=http://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/fi/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_11rh.px/ |access-date=28 November 2019 |archive-date=28 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128203613/http://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/fi/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_11rh.px/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|See [[Germans in Finland|German Finn]].
|-
! scope="row" | Kyrgyzstan
|8,563 (2014)
|
|See [[Kyrgyzstan Germans|German Kyrgyzstani]].
|-
! scope="row" | South Korea
|
|10,763 (2024)
|See [[Germans in Korea|German South Korean]].
|-
! scope="row" | Philippines
|6,400 (2000)
|
|See [[German settlement in the Philippines|German Filipino]].
|-
! scope="row" | Latvia
|4,975 (2014)
|
|See [[Baltic Germans|German Latvian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Serbia
|4,064 (2011)
|850 (2016)<ref>{{cite web |title=Migration profile 2016 |url=http://www.kirs.gov.rs/docs/migracije/migracioni%20profil%202016.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708074431/http://www.kirs.gov.rs/docs/migracije/migracioni%20profil%202016.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2018 |access-date=8 July 2018}}</ref>
|See [[Germans of Serbia|German Serbian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Uzbekistan
|3,945<ref>{{Cite web |title=Permanent population by national and / or ethnic group, urban / rural place of residence |url=https://data.egov.uz/data/6117a05996188a0f14ac917b |access-date=2023-10-11 |website=data.egov.uz |language=ru}}</ref>
|
|See [[Demographics of Uzbekistan|German Uzbekistani]].
|-
! scope="row" | Croatia
|2,965 (2011)<ref>{{cite web |title=Central Bureau of Statistics |url=http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2011/results/htm/E01_01_12/E01_01_12.html |website=www.dzs.hr |access-date=27 May 2014 |archive-date=14 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014094207/https://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2011/results/htm/E01_01_12/E01_01_12.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
|See [[Germans of Croatia|German Croatian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Lithuania
|2,418 (2011)
|
|See [[Baltic Germans|German Lithuanian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Estonia
|1,544 (2011)
|
|See [[Baltic Germans|German Estonian]].
|-
! scope="row" | Iceland
| 842 (2013)
|
|See [[Germany–Iceland relations|German Icelander]].
|-
! scope="row" | Montenegro
|131<ref>{{Cite book |last=MONSTAT |url=http://www.monstat.org/userfiles/file/popis2011/saopstenje/saopstenje(1).pdf |title=Population of Montenegro by sex, type of settlement, etnicity, religion and mother tongue, per municipalities |publisher=Montenegro Statistical Office (MONSTAT) |year=2011 |location=Podgorica |language=cnr}}</ref>
|752<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vukićević |first=Jasna |date=2023-02-21 |title=Doseljenicima iz Njemačke prija crnogorsko 'polako, polako' |language=sh |work=Radio Slobodna Evropa |url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/crna-gora-njemacka-selidbe/32281527.html |access-date=2023-08-25}}</ref> 
|See [[Germany–Montenegro relations|German Montenegrin]].
|-
! scope="row" | Jamaica
| Unknown
|300
| See [[Germans in Jamaica|German Jamaican]].
|-
! scope="row" | Liechtenstein
| Depends on definition; see [[Liechtensteiners]].
|
| See [[Liechtensteiners|German Liechtensteiner]].
|-
! scope="row" | Nicaragua
| Unknown
|
| See [[German Nicaraguan]].
|-
! scope="row" | Venezuela
|
|
| See [[German Venezuelan]].
|-
|}

===Europe===
{{Main|German-speaking Europe|Ostsiedlung|History of German settlement in Central and Eastern Europe|Organised persecution of ethnic Germans|Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)}}

====Alpine nations====
{{Further| German immigration to Switzerland}}
[[File:Ethnic Germans in Hungary and parts of adjacent Austrian territories.JPG|thumb|left|Ethnic Germans in Hungary and parts of adjacent Austrian territories, census 1890]]

Austria, Switzerland, and [[Liechtenstein]] each have a German-speaking majority, though the vast majority of the population do not identify themselves as German anymore. [[Austrians]] historically were identified as and considered themselves Germans until after the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of [[World War II]]. Post-1945 a broader Austrian national identity began to emerge, and over 90% of the Austrians now see themselves as an independent nation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gratzfeld.twoday.net/topics/Austrian+Identity/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718120834/http://gratzfeld.twoday.net/topics/Austrian+Identity/|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 July 2010|date=18 July 2010|title=INFOpoint: Austrian Identity }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| author= derStandard.at| url= http://derstandard.at/3261105 | title= Österreicher fühlen sich heute als Nation - 1938 - derStandard.at " Wissenschaft| publisher= Derstandard.at| access-date= 2012-08-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| author= H. Lohninger | url= http://www.photoglobe.info/ebooks/austria/cstudies_austria_0070.html| title= Austrian National Identity| publisher= Photoglobe.info| date= 6 December 2010 | access-date= 2012-08-25}}</ref>

==== East-Central Europe ====
Aside from the Germans who migrated to other parts of Europe, the German diaspora also covered the Eastern and Central European states such as Croatia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, along with several [[post-Soviet states]]. There has been a continued historical presence of Germans in these regions due to the interrelated processes of conquest and colonization as well as migration and border changes.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Diaspora and Citizenship|last1=Sutherland|first1=Claire|last2=Barabantseva|first2=Elena|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=9780415594127|location=Oxon|pages=97}}</ref> During the periods of colonization, for instance, there was an influx of Germans who came to [[Bohemia]] and parts of Romania as colonizers. Settlements due to border changes were largely 20th century developments caused by the new political order after the two world wars.<ref name=":1" />

====Baltic states====
{{Main|Baltic Germans}}
{{Further|Nazi–Soviet population transfers}}

====Belgium====
:{{main|German-speaking Community of Belgium}}
In Belgium, there is an ethnic German minority. It is the majority in its region of 71,000 inhabitants. [[Ethnologue]] puts the national total of German speakers at 150,000, not including [[Limburgish language|Limburgish]] and [[Luxembourgish language|Luxembourgish]].

====Bulgaria====
{{Main|Germans in Bulgaria}}

====Czech Republic and Slovakia====
{{Main|Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)|Germans in the Czech Republic|Germans from Slovakia}}
{{Further|Sudeten Germans|Carpathian Germans|Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia}}

Before [[World War II]], some 30% of the population in [[Czech Republic|Czechia]] were ethnic Germans, and in the border regions and certain other areas they were in the majority.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.livingprague.com/history4.htm |title=Liberation – Post War Changes |publisher=Livingprague.com |access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref> There are about 21,000 Germans in the Czech Republic (number of [[Czechs]] who have at least partly German ancestry probably runs into the hundreds of thousands).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radio.cz/en/article/27184 |title=Ethnic German Minorities in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia |date=23 April 2002 |publisher=Radio.cz |access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref> Their number has been consistently decreasing since World War II. According to the 2011 census, there remain 11 municipalities and settlements in Czech Republic with more than 6% Germans.

The situation in [[Slovakia]] was different from that in Czech Republic, in that the number of Germans was considerably lower and that the [[Carpathian Germans|Germans from Slovakia]] were almost completely evacuated to German states as the Soviet army was moving west through Slovakia, and only a fraction of those who returned to Slovakia after the end of the war were deported with the Germans from the Czech lands.

Many representatives of expellee<!--is that a word?--> organizations support the erection of bilingual signs in all formerly German-speaking territory as a visible sign of the bilingual linguistic and cultural heritage of the region. The erection of bilingual signs is permitted if a minority constitutes 10% of the population.

====Denmark====
In Denmark, the part of [[Schleswig]] that is now [[South Jutland County]] (or [[Northern Schleswig]]) is inhabited by about 12,000–20,000 ethnic Germans<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/document/alemany/an/i2/i2.html |title=Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |publisher=Uoc.es |access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref> They speak mainly Standard German and [[South Jutlandic]]. A few speak [[Schleswigsch]], a [[Northern Low Saxon]] dialect.

====France====
In France, over 100,000 German nationals residing in the French country. The exact number is not known; some statistics indicate more than 300,000 Germans in France, but they are not officially sanctioned. There, the Germans live mainly in the northeastern area of France, i.e., in regions close to the Franco-German border (i.e. [[Alsace]]), and the island of [[Corsica]].

==== Hungary ====

{{Main|Germans of Hungary}}

Prior to World War II, approximately 1.5 million Danube Swabians lived in Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://feefhs.org/BANAT/BHISTORY.HTML |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970204103909/http://www.feefhs.org/banat/bhistory.html |archive-date= 4 February 1997 |title="History of German Settlements in Southern Hungary" by Sue Clarkson |publisher=Feefhs.org |access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref> Today the German minority in Hungary have minority rights, organisations, schools and local councils, but spontaneous assimilation is well under way. Many of the deportees visited their old homes after the fall of the [[Iron Curtain]] in 1990. Around 178,000 Germans live in Hungary.

{{Further|Danube Swabians}}

====Italy====
[[File:Austria hungary 1911.jpg|thumb|287px|right|Map of [[Austria-Hungary]] in 1911, showing areas inhabited by ethnic Germans in pink]]

There are smaller, unique populations of Germans who arrived so long ago that their dialect retains many archaic features heard nowhere else: the [[Cimbrian language|Cimbrians]] are concentrated in various communities in the [[Carnic Alps]], north of [[Verona]], and especially in the [[Sugana Valley]] on the high plateau northwest of [[Vicenza]] in the [[Veneto]] region; the [[Walser]]s, who originated in the Swiss [[Valais|Wallis]], live in the provinces of [[Aostatal]], [[Vercelli]], and [[Verbano-Cusio-Ossola]]; the [[Mòcheno language|Mòchenos]] live in the [[Valle dei Mòcheni|Fersina Valley]]. Smaller German-speaking communities also exist in the [[Friuli-Venezia Giulia]] region: the [[Carinthia (state)|Carinthians]] in the [[Canale Valley]] (municipalities of [[Tarvisio]], [[Malborghetto Valbruna]] and [[Pontebba]]) and the [[Sauris|Zahren]] and [[Timavo|Timau]] Germans in [[Carnia]].

Contrarily to the before-mentioned minorities, the German-speaking population of the province of [[South Tyrol]] cannot be categorized as "ethnic German" according to the definition of this article, but as Austrian minority. However, as Austrians saw themselves as ethnic Germans until the end of World War II they can technically also be called Germans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://diepresse.com/home/politik/aussenpolitik/590170/index.do?from=rss |title=Südtirol: Neue Initiative für Doppel-Staatsbürgerschaft|date=26 August 2010 |publisher=Diepresse.com |access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref> The province was part of the Austrian County of Tyrol before the 1919 dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.<ref>{{cite book|author= Georg Grote, Hannes Obermair|title=A Land on the Threshold. South Tyrolean Transformations, 1915–2015|year=2017|publisher=[[Peter Lang (publisher)|Peter Lang]]|location=Oxford, Bern, New York|isbn=978-3-0343-2240-9}}</ref> South Tyroleans were part of the over 3 million German speaking Austrians who in 1918 found themselves living outside of the newborn Austrian Republic as minorities in the newly formed or enlarged respective states of Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Italy. Their dialect is Austro-Bavarian German. Both standard German and dialect are used in schooling and media. German enjoys co-official status with the national language of Italian throughout this region.

Germans have been present in the Iglesiente mining region in the south west of [[Sardinia]] since the 13th century.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PVtE1FnphtYC&q=tedeschi&pg=PA200|title = Sardegna|isbn = 9788836500239|last1 = Italiano|first1 = Touring Club|year = 1984| publisher=Touring Editore }}</ref> Successively since 1850 groups of specialised workers from [[Styria]], Austria, followed by German miners from [[Freiburg]] settled in the same area. Some Germans influenced building and toponym is still visible in this area.<ref>Stefano Musso, op. cit., p. 314</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sardegnaminiere.it/il_progresso_sociale.htm|title=www.sardegnaminiere.it|first=martino|last=atzori|website=www.sardegnaminiere.it|access-date=21 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404005016/http://www.sardegnaminiere.it/il_progresso_sociale.htm|archive-date=4 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==== Norway ====

In Norway, there are 27,770 Germans making them the ninth largest ethnic minority in the country, thus constituting 0.52% of Norway's total population, and 2.94% of all [[Immigration to Norway|foreign residents]] in Norway.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kommuneprofilen.no/Profil/Befolkning/DinRegion/bef_innvandrere_land_region.aspx|title=KommuneProfilen. Statistikk og nøkkeltall om antall og andel innvandrere etter land og landbakgrunn i kommuner og fylker - basert på statistikk fra SSB }}</ref> Immigration from Germany to Norway has occurred since the [[Middle Ages]]. There have been many Germans who migrated to [[Bergen]] during the Middle Ages and also during [[Denmark–Norway|Norway's union with Denmark]]. During the Union with Denmark, a lot of German miners migrated to the town of [[Kongsberg]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arkivverket.no/utforsk-arkivene/eldre-historie--1814/innvandring-til-norge-er-ikke-noe-nytt.folk-har-kommet-hit-i-1000-%C3%A5r-%E2%80%93-og-mer-enn-det|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129221402/https://www.arkivverket.no/utforsk-arkivene/eldre-historie--1814/innvandring-til-norge-er-ikke-noe-nytt.folk-har-kommet-hit-i-1000-%C3%A5r-%E2%80%93-og-mer-enn-det|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 November 2020|title=Innvandring til Norge er ikke noe nytt. Folk har kommet hit i 1000 år – og mer enn det - Arkivverket }}</ref> As of 2020, there are 1,446 Germans in the city of Bergen, making up 0.51% of the total population, and in the town of Kongsberg there are 114 Germans, making up 0.41% of the total population respectively. The city with the biggest population of Germans is [[Oslo]]. 3,743 Germans live in the city, thereby making up 0.55% of the total population.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kommuneprofilen.no/Profil/Befolkning/Bench/bef_innvandrere_land_bench.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025221112/https://kommuneprofilen.no/Profil/Befolkning/Bench/bef_innvandrere_land_bench.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 October 2020|title=KommuneProfilen. Statistikk og nøkkeltall om antall og andel innvandrere etter land og landbakgrunn i kommuner og fylker - basert på statistikk fra SSB }}</ref> Germany is also the country that sends the most [[Student exchange program|foreign exchange students]] to Norway, in 2016, 1,570 exchange students came to Norway from Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://forskning.no/senter-for-internasjonalisering-av-utdanning-skole-og-utdanning-partner/derfor-velger-europeiske-studenter-norge/351205|title=Derfor velger europeiske studenter Norge|date=25 April 2017}}</ref>

==== Poland ====

[[File:Deutsche Siedlungsgebiete in Osteuropa 1925.jpg|thumb|260px|German minority in Poland, 1925]]

{{Main|German minority in Poland|Walddeutsche}}

The remaining German minority in Poland (109,000 people were registered in the 2011 census<ref name="GUS">{{cite web|url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/PUBL_lu_nps2011_wyniki_nsp2011_22032012.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616192742/http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/PUBL_lu_nps2011_wyniki_nsp2011_22032012.pdf |archive-date=16 June 2012|title=Results of the National Census of 2011, GUS, p. 18|language=pl|publisher=Stat.gov.pl|access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref>) enjoys minority rights according to Polish minority law. There are German speakers throughout Poland, and most of the Germans live in the [[Opole Voivodeship]] in [[Silesia]]. Bilingual signs are posted in some towns of the region. In addition, there are bilingual schools and German can be used instead of Polish in dealings with officials in several towns.

{{Further|Bilingual communes in Poland|Former eastern territories of Germany|Olędrzy|Vistula Germans|Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II}}

====Portugal====
As of December 2022, there are 20,500 German nationals residing in Portugal.<ref name=":0" /> This number only include foreign nationals and thus excludes German citizens who have acquired [[Portuguese passport|Portuguese citizenship]] (around 400 people since 2008), as well as Portuguese people of German descent.<ref name=":3" /> 
[[File:Lisboa-Cemitério Alemão-Graves1.jpg|left|thumb|German cemetery in [[Campo de Ourique]]]]
Around 6,000 Germans live in the municipalities of [[Lisbon]], [[Oeiras, Portugal|Oeiras]], [[Sintra]] or [[Cascais]], in the [[Portuguese Riviera]].<ref name="SEFSTAT – Portal de Estatística">{{Cite web |title=SEFSTAT – Portal de Estatística |url=https://sefstat.sef.pt/forms/distritos.aspx |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=sefstat.sef.pt}}</ref> On the other hand, around 5,000 Germans live in the southern region of [[Algarve]].<ref name="SEFSTAT – Portal de Estatística"/> The German community is especially noticeable in Lisbon and [[Porto]]. Each city hosts a [[German Evangelical Church]], a [[Education in Germany|German school]] and offers German libraries. There is also a German church as well as a German school in Algarve while [[Madeira]] hosts a German Evangelical Church.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Amt |first=Auswärtiges |title=Escolas Alemãs em Portugal |url=https://lissabon.diplo.de/pt-pt/themen/deutschlernen/s-auslandsschulen/1745172 |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=lissabon.diplo.de |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Bücherstube – Livraria Alemã – Shop in Porto |url=https://shopinporto.porto.pt/loja/bucherstube-livraria-alema/ |access-date=2023-10-14 |language=pt-pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Igreja Evangélica Alemã em Portugal |url=http://www.dekl.org/portugu%C3%AAs/igreja-evang%C3%A9lica-em-portugal/ |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=Deutsche Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Lissabon |language=de-DE}}</ref> Lisbon also hosts a Catholic German Church and a German cemetery since 1821.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diretório da Cidade |url=https://informacoeseservicos.lisboa.pt/contactos/diretorio-da-cidade |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=informacoeseservicos.lisboa.pt |language=pt-PT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=O Cemitério protestante alemão de Lisboa |url=http://www.dekl.org/portugu%C3%AAs/cemit%C3%A9rio-alem%C3%A3o/ |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=Deutsche Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Lissabon |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Deutscher Evangelischer Friedhof Lissabon |url=http://www.dekl.org/deutsche-ev-kirchengemeinde-lissabon/deutscher-friedhof/ |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=Deutsche Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Lissabon |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Monumentos |url=http://monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=23354 |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=monumentos.pt}}</ref> Many Luso-Germans have acquired fame throughout the years. Individuals of the community include [[Alfredo Keil]] (1850–1907), composer of ''[[A Portuguesa]]'', the Portuguese [[national anthem]], archaeologist [[Virgínia Rau]] (1907–1973), banker and industrialist [[António Champalimaud]] (1918–2004), architect [[Francisco Keil do Amaral]] (1910–1975) and former prime minister [[Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro]] (1849–1907). Contemporary figures of German descent include football player [[Diego Moreira]], [[Eurovision Song Contest|Eurovision song contest]] winner [[Salvador Sobral]], surfer [[Nic von Rupp]], actresses [[Catarina Wallenstein]] and [[Vera Kolodzig]], and tennis player [[Maria João Koehler]]. Amongst the most notable Luso-Germans there is undoubtedly [[João Frederico Ludovice]], who was commissioned the project for the [[Mafra National Palace]] in 1711.

==== Romania ====

{{Main|Germans of Romania}}

{{Further|Transylvanian Saxons|Transylvanian Landler|Banat Swabians|Sathmar Swabians|Bukovina Germans|Zipser Germans|Regat Germans|Dobrujan Germans|Bessarabia Germans|Deportation of Germans from Romania after World War II}}

As of 2022, according to the [[2021 Romanian census|Romanian Census]], there were circa 22,900 ethnic Germans recorded in Romania.

Since the [[High Middle Ages]], the territory of present-day Romania has been continuously inhabited by German-speaking groups, firstly by Transylvanian Saxons then, gradually, by other immigrant groups of ethnic German origin. They are all politically represented by the [[Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania]] (FDGR/DFDR).

====Sweden====
{{Main|Germans in Sweden}}
During the 11th century, Sweden was visited by missionaries from Germany. During the Middle Ages, Hanseatic merchants had a great influence on Swedish trade and also the Swedish language. According to a survey, the proportion of German loanwords in Swedish is 24–30 percent (slightly depending on how you calculate). During the period of great power, a number of German congregations were formed in Sweden. Including Karlskrona German parish, which then became part of Karlskrona Admiralty parish. Today, there are two more active German congregations in Sweden. They are part of the parishes of the Church of Sweden, the German Christinae parish and the German St. Gertrude's parish consists of German citizens or Swedes of German origin. In connection with the two world wars, several German children of war came to Sweden. Between the late 1940s and early 1990s, many East German refugees also came to Sweden. On 31 December 2014, there were 49,359 people in Sweden who were born in Germany, of whom 23,195 were men (47.0%) and 26,164 women (53.0%).{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} The corresponding figure for 31 December 2000 was 38,155, of which 16,965 men (44.5%) and 21,190 women (55.5%).{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}There were 28,172 people in Sweden with German citizenship.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} In 2019, according to Statistics Sweden, German immigrants together with the Chinese were the most highly educated who migrate to Sweden, with a proportion of 70 per cent who are highly educated, which is well above the average for Sweden's population which is 30 per cent.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} Around 29,505 German Citizens living in [https://www.wohin-auswandern.de/auswandern-nach-schweden Sweden in 2020].

====United Kingdom====
{{Main|Germans in the United Kingdom}}
In the United Kingdom, a German-Briton ethnic group of around 300,000 exists. Some are descended from 19th-century immigrants. Others are 20th-century immigrants and their descendants, and others are [[World War II]] [[prisoners of war]] held in Great Britain who decided to stay there. Others arrived as spouses of English soldiers from post-war marriages in Germany, when the British were occupying forces. Many of the more recent immigrants have settled in the [[London]] and southeast part of England, in particular, [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames|Richmond]] (South West London).

The [[British royal family]] are partially descended from German monarchs.

Due to [[Brexit]], the number of Germans in the UK has declined significantly. In 2021, there were only 135,000 Germans in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|title=German nationals population UK 2021|url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/1061601/german-population-in-united-kingdom/|access-date=2022-02-15|website=Statista|language=en}}</ref>

===Africa===
[[File:NamibiaDeutscheSprache.jpg|thumb|Examples of German language signage in Namibia]]
During the long decline of the Roman Empire and the ensuing great migrations Germanic tribes such as the [[Vandals]] (who sacked Rome) migrated into [[North Africa]] and settled mainly in the lands corresponding to modern [[Tunisia]] and northeastern [[Algeria]]. While it is likely that some of the people living there at present are descended from these Germanic peoples, they did not leave visible cultural traces.

====Cameroon====
The first German trading post in the Duala area on the Kamerun River delta was established in 1868 by the Hamburg trading company [[:de:Carl Woermann|C. Woermann]]. The firm's agent in Gabon, Johannes Thormählen, expanded activities to the Kamerun River delta. In 1874, together with the Woermann agent in Liberia, Wilhelm Jantzen, the two merchants founded their own company, Jantzen & Thormählen there. At the outbreak of World War I, French, Belgian and British troops invaded the German colony in 1914 and fully occupied it during the Kamerun campaign. The last German fort to surrender was the one at Mora in the north of the colony in 1916. Following Germany's defeat, the Treaty of Versailles divided the territory into two League of Nations mandates (Class B) under the administration of Great Britain and France. French Cameroun and part of British Cameroons reunified in 1961 as Cameroon, though some Germans still remain in Cameroon.

====Namibia====
{{main|German Namibians}}
Germany was not as involved in colonizing Africa as other major European powers of the 20th century, and lost its overseas colonies, including [[German East Africa]] and [[German South West Africa]], after World War I. Similarly to those in Latin America, the Germans in Africa tended to isolate themselves and were more self-sufficient than other Europeans. In [[Namibia]] there are 30,000 ethnic Germans, though it is estimated that only a third of those retain the language. Most German-speakers live in the capital, [[Windhoek]], and in smaller towns such as [[Swakopmund]] and [[Lüderitz]], where German architecture is highly visible.

====South Africa====
{{main|Germans in South Africa}}
In South Africa, a number of [[Afrikaners]] and [[Boers]] are of partial German ancestry, being the descendants of German immigrants who intermarried with Dutch settlers and adopted [[Afrikaans]] as their mother tongue. Professor JA Heese in his book ''Die Herkoms van die Afrikaner'' (''The Origins of Afrikaners'') claims the modern Afrikaners (who total around 3.5 million) have 34.4% German ancestry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://africanhistory.about.com/od/southafrica/p/AfrikanerGene.htm |title=How 'Pure' was the Average Afrikaner? |publisher=Africanhistory.about.com |date=13 April 2012 |access-date=2012-08-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013012659/http://africanhistory.about.com/od/southafrica/p/AfrikanerGene.htm |archive-date=13 October 2012}}</ref>

Germans also emigrated to South Africa during the 1850s and 1860s, and settled in the [[Eastern Cape]] area around [[Stutterheim]], and in [[Kwazulu-Natal]] in the [[Wartburg, KwaZulu-Natal|Wartburg]] area, where there is still a large German-speaking community.<ref>Deutsche Wanderung nach Südafrika im 19. Jahrhundert by Werner Schmidt-Pretoria.</ref> Mostly originating from different waves of immigration during the 19th and 20th centuries, an estimated 12,000 people speak German or a German variety as a first language in [[South Africa]].<ref name="ReferenceA">[[Template:German L1 speakers outside Europe|German L1 speakers outside Europe]]</ref> Germans settled quite extensively in South Africa, with many [[Calvinist]]s immigrating from Northern Europe. Later on, more Germans settled in the [[KwaZulu-Natal]] and elsewhere. Here, one of the largest communities are the speakers of "Nataler Deutsch", a variety of [[Low German]], who are concentrated in and around [[Wartburg, KwaZulu-Natal|Wartburg]]. German is slowly disappearing elsewhere, but a number of communities still have a large number of speakers and some even have German language schools. Around 17,000 German Nationals lived in South Africa in 2020.

====Tanzania====
{{main|White Africans of European ancestry#Tanzania}}

When mainland [[Tanzania]], [[Rwanda]], and [[Burundi]] were under German control, they were named [[German East Africa]]; they received some migration from German communities. After [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika]] and [[Ruanda-Urundi]] became British and Belgian [[League of Nations mandate|mandates]] following Germany's defeat in World War I, some of these communities remained. {{citation needed span|There is a small community of Germans remaining in [[Tanzania]].|date=November 2020}}

=== North America ===
{{see|German Americans|German Canadians|German Mexicans}}
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* [[Belize]]: 5,763 [[Mennonite]] Low-German speakers.
* Canada (3.3 million, 9,6% of the population), see also [[German Canadian]]s.
* Mexico: See [[German immigration to Mexico]], 22% of Mennonites also speak Low German which is not Standard German but derived from Old Saxon, 30% speak Spanish, 5% speak English and 5% speak Russian as a second language.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=sl_dDVctycgC&dq=Menno+colony+in+Mexico&pg=RA1-PA94 International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: 4-Volume Set, Volumen 1] Page 94</ref> Sources estimate that there are around 15,000 German citizens and Mexicans of German-citizen origin account for about 75,000 today.<ref name=Kopp>Horst Kopp [https://books.google.com/books?id=GJadNj49S-wC&dq=Mexico+german&pg=PA318 Area Studies, Business and Culture: Results of the Bavarian Research Network Forarea] (2003)</ref> Also of note, the 'Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt', or Alexander von Humboldt school in Mexico City is the largest German school outside Germany.
* In the United States, [[German American|"German"]] has been the largest self-identified ancestry group since 1990. There are around 50 million [[German American|Americans of at least partial German ancestry]] in the United States, or 17% of the U.S. population, the country's largest self-reported ancestral group.<ref>From [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-reg=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201PR:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201T:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201TPR:535&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201TPR&-ds_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_&-TABLE_NAMEX=&-ci_type=A&-redoLog=true&-charIterations=047&-geo_id=01000US&-geo_id=NBSP&-format=&-_lang=en Census Bureau, "S0201. Selected Population Profile in the United States" 2006-2008 data]  {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200210231621/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-reg=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201PR:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201T:535;ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201TPR:535&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S0201TPR&-ds_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_&-TABLE_NAMEX=&-ci_type=A&-redoLog=true&-charIterations=047&-geo_id=01000US&-geo_id=NBSP&-format=&-_lang=en |date=10 February 2020 }}</ref> including various groups such as the [[Pennsylvania Dutch]]. Of these, 23 million are of German ancestry alone ("single ancestry"), and another 27 million are of partial German ancestry, making them the largest group in the United States, followed by the Irish. Of those who claim partial ancestry, 22 million identify their primary ancestry ("first ancestry") as German. The 22 million Americans of primarily German ancestry are by far the largest part of the German diaspora, a figure equal to over a quarter of the population of Germany itself. Germans form just under half the population in the [[Upper Midwest]].<ref>[http://home.earthlink.net/~tricentennialfoundation/census.html Who's Counting? The 1990 Census of German-Americans] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041009202528/http://home.earthlink.net/~tricentennialfoundation/census.html |date=9 October 2004 }}. On the site of The Tricentennial Foundation German American Community Service. Accessed 12 February 2006.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19990902203620/http://www.census.gov/statab/USA98/dd-an.txt Contents of ANCESTRY Table] on the site of the [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed 12 February 2006.</ref>
* [[Central America]]: In 1940, there were 16,000 Germans living in Central America; half of them in [[Guatemala]], and most of the remainder were established in [[Costa Rica]].<ref name=Schoonover>{{cite book |title=Hitler's Man in Havana: Heinz Luning and Nazi Espionage in Latin America |date=2008 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |location=United States of America |isbn=978-0-8131-2501-5 |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CojTWMNxso4C&q=Paraguay%20Chile%20Argentina%20German%20migration%20South%20America&pg=PA35 |author=Thomas Schoonover |access-date=27 May 2014}}</ref>

===South America===
{{see| German Brazilians|German Argentines|German Chileans|German Uruguayans|Germans in Paraguay|German Bolivians|German Peruvians|German Venezuelans}}

[[File:Oktoberfest VGBelgrano.jpg|thumb|right|[[German Argentine]]s celebrate [[Oktoberfest]] in [[Villa General Belgrano]].]]
[[File:Maps of German colonies in southern Brazil.jpg|thumb|right|German population in Southern Brazil:
{{legend|#FFFEC3|Less than 1% of population ([[Uruguay]])}}
{{legend|#FFF92F|Between 1 – 5% of population ([[State of São Paulo]])}}
{{legend|#FE8E5E|Between 5 – 10% of population ([[State of Paraná]])}}
{{legend|#D0B0B1|Between 10 – 25% of population (State of [[Rio Grande do Sul]])}}
{{legend|#DDA13F|Around 35% of population (State of [[Santa Catarina (state)|Santa Catarina]])}}
]]
[[File:San Ignacio.jpg|thumb|right|Mennonites in [[San Ignacio, Paraguay|San Ignacio]], Paraguay]]

* Argentina: Those of German ancestry constitute about 8% of the Argentine population&nbsp;— over 3 million&nbsp;— most of them [[Volga Germans]] alone&nbsp;— about 2 million.<ref name="cacw.com.ar">{{cite web|url=http://cacw.com.ar/sitio/notas_detalle.php?id=NTk=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207114850/http://cacw.com.ar/sitio/notas_detalle.php?id=NTk%3D|title=CACW – Centro Argentino Cultural "WOLGADEUTSCHE"|archive-date=7 February 2009|access-date=5 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> There are more than 400,000 of other German ancestries including [[Mennonites]] and [[German-speaking Switzerland|German Swiss]]. These two groups are more common in Southern Argentina, and also in Santa Fe, Entre Rios and Cordoba provinces. A notable example is the town of [[Villa General Belgrano]], founded by Germans in the 1930s. In the 1960s it became the site of the Fiesta Nacional de la Cerveza, or Oktoberfest, which has become a major attraction in Argentina.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elsitiodelavilla.com/oktoberfest/historia.htm |title=Fiesta de La Cerveza – Oktoberfest Argentina – Vill |publisher=Elsitiodelavilla.com |access-date=2012-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702124049/https://www.elsitiodelavilla.com/oktoberfest/historia.htm |archive-date=2 July 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> By 1940, there were 250,000 people of German descent living in the country.<ref name=Schoonover/> The German embassy in Argentina estimates that 660,000 Argentines, or 1.5% of the total population, are descendants of Germans who emigrated directly from Germany (It means that it doesn't includes other ethnic Germans who emigrated from Austria, Switzerland, Russia/USSR, etc.).<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://www.embajada-alemana.org.ar/culturas/becas1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213071340/http://www.embajada-alemana.org.ar/culturas/becas1.htm |archive-date=13 February 2010 |title=FUNCIONES DEL DEPARTAMENTO CULTURAL|date=13 February 2010 |access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/secretaria_gral/colectividades/?col=1 |title=Obsevatorio de Colectividades – Comunidad Alemana |publisher=Buenosaires.gob.ar |access-date=28 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128203016/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/secretaria_gral/colectividades/?col=1 |archive-date=28 November 2011 }}</ref> 50,000 German citizens live in Argentina.<ref name=GermanArgentine/>

:Nazi Minister [[Walther Darré]] was born in Argentina. After the Second World War, almost a thousand prominent Nazi leaders and politicians fled to Argentina. [[Adolf Eichmann]] and [[Josef Mengele]] were among them. [[Kurt Tank]], who developed some of the greatest World War II aircraft fighters, also entered Argentina in the late 1940s.<ref>{{cite news|author=NATHANIEL C. NASH|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/14/world/argentine-files-show-huge-effort-to-harbor-nazis.html |title=Argentine Files Show Huge Effort to Harbor Nazis |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=14 December 1993 |access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref>

:There are about 500,000 German-speakers in Argentina,<ref name="Handwörterbuch">[http://www.bpb.de/wissen/08937231579775312662617270950640,1,0,Auslandsdeutsche.html#art1 Handwörterbuch des politischen Systems der Bundesrepublik] (in German). Source lists "German expatriate citizens" only for Namibia and South Africa!</ref> slightly over 1% of population.

:Furthermore, a wave of Ashkenazi immigrants came after the rise of Nazism in 1933, followed by as many as 19,000 German Jews. From 1939 until the end of World War II, immigration was put to a halt by anti-immigrant feelings in the country and restrictions on immigration from Germany.

* [[Bolivia]]: There are two different German groups: the descendants of those who emigrated from Germany and Brazil (estimated in about 160,000, 2% of Bolivian population)<ref name="Lizcano-CR"/> and the descendants of [[Mennonites]] that emigrated from Canada and Mexico (at least 85,000 of them live in agrarian communities).<ref name=NYT/><ref>[http://mexico.cnn.com/videos/2012/06/07/los-menonitas-en-bolivia Los Menonitas en Bolivia] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203073427/http://mexico.cnn.com/videos/2012/06/07/los-menonitas-en-bolivia |date=3 December 2013 }} '''CNN en Español'''</ref> Germans are 237,000 or 2,5% of Bolivian population.<ref name="237.000 alemanes en Bolivia">[https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/11871/BL German in Bolivia]. Joshua Project. Retrieved 27 July 2020.</ref>

:There are over 20,000 Standard German-speakers,<ref name="Lizcano-CR"/> plus 85,000 [[Plautdietsch language|Mennonite Low German]]-speakers.<ref name=NYT>[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/world/americas/21bolivia.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Bolivian Reforms Raise Anxiety on Mennonite Frontier], New York Times{{Subscription required}}</ref>

* Brazil: Mostly living in [[Southern Brazil]]. Brazil received 250,000 Germans between the 19th and 20th centuries. According to Born and Dickgiesser (1989, p.&nbsp;55) the number of Brazilians of German descent in 1986 was 3.6&nbsp;million. According to a 1999 survey by [[Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics|IBGE]] researcher [[Simon Schwartzman]], in a representative sample of the Brazilian population 3,6% said they had German ancestry, a percentage that in a population of about 200 million amount to 7.2 million descendants.<ref name=Alemao>Many authors. Os Alemães no Sul do Brasil, Editora Ulbra, 2004 (2004).</ref> In 2004, [[Deutsche Welle]] cited the number of 5 million Brazilians of German descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/pt-br/as-diferentes-fases-da-imigra%C3%A7%C3%A3o-alem%C3%A3-no-brasil/a-1195367-0|title=As Diferentes Fases da Imigração Alemã no Brasil|website=[[Deutsche Welle]]|access-date=2021-01-21|archive-date=28 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128113857/https://www.dw.com/pt-br/as-diferentes-fases-da-imigra%C3%A7%C3%A3o-alem%C3%A3-no-brasil/a-1195367-0|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Hunsrückisch]] and [[East Pomeranian dialect|East Pomeranian]] are some of the most prominent groups.<ref name="Deutsche-Welle">{{cite web |url= http://www.passeiweb.com/na_ponta_lingua/sala_de_aula/geografia/geografia_do_brasil/demografia_imigracoes/brasil_imigracoes_alemanha |publisher= Deustche Welle |title= A Imigração Alemã no Brasil |language= pt |date= 25 July 2004 |access-date= 7 October 2012 |archive-date= 15 July 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110715050625/http://www.passeiweb.com/na_ponta_lingua/sala_de_aula/geografia/geografia_do_brasil/demografia_imigracoes/brasil_imigracoes_alemanha |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lerncafe.de/aus-der-welt-1142/articles/pommern-in-brasilien.html|title=Pommern in Brasilien - LernCafe – Online-Journal zur allgemeinen Weiterbildung|website=www.lerncafe.de|access-date=7 November 2017|archive-date=10 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010211638/http://www.lerncafe.de/aus-der-welt-1142/articles/pommern-in-brasilien.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
:By 1940, the German diaspora in Brazil amounted about a million.<ref name=Schoonover/>
:Around 14,000 German Citizens Registered in Brazil.
:There are 3 million German-speakers in Brazil,<ref name="Handwörterbuch" /> slightly over 1.5% of population.

* [[Chile]]: The German-Chilean Chamber of Commerce estimated at 500,000 the descendants of Germans, about 3% of the total population of Chile estimated at 16 million (in the same source).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.de/alemanes-en-chile-entre-el-pasado-colono-y-el-presente-empresarial/a-14958983-1| publisher=Deustche-Welle|date=31 March 2011|access-date=11 November 2012 |author=Luna Bolivar Manaut |title=Alemanes en Chile: entre el pasado colono y el presente empresarial |language=es}}</ref> There are 40,000 Standard German-speakers.<ref name=autogenerated2>[http://www.bpb.de/nachschlagen/lexika/handwoerterbuch-politisches-system/40236/auslandsdeutsche?p=1 Handwörterbuch des politischen Systems der Bundesrepublik] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405003410/http://www.bpb.de/nachschlagen/lexika/handwoerterbuch-politisches-system/40236/auslandsdeutsche?p=1 |date=5 April 2013 }} (in German).</ref>
* [[Ecuador]]: Ecuador has only few people of German descent. Notable is a small German population on the Island of [[Floreana]] ([[Galapagos]]): Between 1929 and circa 1950, roughly half a dozen [[Simple living|''Aussteiger'']]s were living on the Island. In 1934 three of them died under unclear circumstances, these events caused international media attention called ''Galapagos-affair''. Today, the descendants of the Floreana-Germans have been assimilated into the local Ecuadorian population or re-immigrated to Germany.<ref>[https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/kriminalitaet/mord-auf-den-galapagos-hoelle-paradies-13018689.html Mord auf den Galápagos: Hölle Paradies - Kriminalität - FAZ]</ref><ref>[http://calnative.com/stories/n_ghosts.htm Galapagos Tours: Ghosts of the Galapagos]</ref>
* [[Paraguay]] : 166,000 Standard German-speakers (including 18,000 Mennonites, who don't speak ''Plattdeutsch'' or ''Mennonite Low German''), most Germans in Paraguay are of Brazilian descent and Portuguese speakers;<ref name="Lizcano-CR">{{cite web|url=http://convergencia.uaemex.mx/rev38/38pdf/LIZCANO.pdf |title=Composición Étnica de las Tres Áreas Culturales del Continente Americano al Comienzo del Siglo XXI |language=es |page=188 |access-date=12 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626010236/http://convergencia.uaemex.mx/rev38/38pdf/LIZCANO.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2013}}</ref> plus 20,000 [[Plautdietsch language|Mennonite Low German]], spoken by Mennonites who live in [[Chaco Department|Chaco]] and Eastern Paraguay<ref name="Lizcano-CR"/> The [[Mennonites in Paraguay|Mennonites emigrated to Paraguay]] from [[Chihuahua State]] (in Mexico), the [[Soviet Union]], Canada, and Bolivia.<ref name=Mennonite>{{cite web|url=http://www.hshs.mb.ca/mennonite_old_colony_vision.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040716070837/http://www.hshs.mb.ca/mennonite_old_colony_vision.pdf|archive-date=2004-07-16|title=The Mennonite Old Colony Vision: ''Under siege in Mexico and the Canadian Connection''|access-date=2007-05-30}}</ref><ref name=Kuxi>{{cite web|url=http://www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/de/lehrstuhl/sw/sw1/mitarbeiter/rosenberg/lateinam.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102170531/http://www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/de/lehrstuhl/sw/sw1/mitarbeiter/rosenberg/lateinam.pdf |archive-date=2 November 2012|title=Deutsche Minderheiten in Lateinamerika |first=Peter |last=Rosenberg |access-date=2012-11-11}}</ref> Non-Mennonites German emigrated to Paraguay mainly from Brazil, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the German Empire.<ref name=Kuxi/>

:Those of German ancestry are 290,000, or 4.4% of Paraguayan population.<ref name=WorldStatesMen-Py>{{cite web|title=Paraguay|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Paraguay.html|publisher=WorldStatesMen|access-date=16 June 2013|quote=Ethnic groups: mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian) 85.6%, white 9.3% (of which German 4.4%, Latin American 3.4%), Amerindian 1.8%, black 1%, other 2.3% (2000)}}</ref>

* [[Peru]]: The communities of [[Oxapampa]], [[Pozuzo District|Pozuzo]], and [[Villa Rica District|Villa Rica]] in the high jungles of the Peruvian Amazon basin were settled in the middle of the 19th century by Austrian and Prussian immigrants. Many of its present-day inhabitants speak German<ref>{{cite web|author=Erwin Dopf |url=http://www.espejodelperu.com.pe/ca/per-ale/index.htm |title=Peruano-alemán |publisher=Espejodelperu.com.pe |access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref> In the 18th century, German immigrants settled the areas of [[Tingo Maria]], [[Tarapoto]], [[Moyobamba]], and the [[Amazonas (Peruvian department)|Amazonas Department]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://riie.com.pe/?a=37129 |title=POZUZO. Historia – caractersiticas generales – Antecedentes Caminos y vias :: antecedentes historicos clima flora y fauna posuso pozuso posuzo |publisher=Riie.com.pe |access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref> German immigrants largely settled in [[Lima]], and to a lesser extent [[Arequipa]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090204024925/http://espejodelperu.com.pe/ca/per-ale/Huellas/Monumento.htm <!--Bot-generated title-->]</ref>
* [[Uruguay]]: By 1940, there were 50,000 Germans living in the country.<ref name=Schoonover/>
* [[Venezuela]]:

{{Main|Colonia Tovar}}

===Asia===
In Japan, during the [[Meiji period]] (1868–1912), many Germans came to work in Japan as advisors to the new government. Despite Japan's isolationism and geographic distance, there have been a few [[:Category:German expatriates in Japan|Germans in Japan]], since Germany's and Japan's fairly parallel modernization made Germans ideal ''[[Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan|O-yatoi gaikokujin]]''. (See also [[Germany–Japan relations]])

In China, the German trading colony of [[Jiaozhou Bay]] in what is now [[Qingdao]] existed until 1914, and did not leave much more than breweries, including [[Tsingtao Brewery]]

In South Korea, there are [[Germans in Korea]].

{{citation needed span|text=Smaller numbers of ethnic Germans immigrated in the former Southeast Asian territories of [[Malaysia]] (British), [[Indonesia]] (Dutch) and the [[Philippines]] (American) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.|date=June 2009}}
In Indonesia, some of them became well-known figures in history, such as [[C.G.C. Reinwardt]] (founder and first director of [[Bogor Botanical Garden]]), [[Walter Spies]] (German of Russian origin, who became the artist that made [[Bali]] known to the world), and [[Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn]] (owner of a big plantation in the south of [[Bandung]] and dubbed "the [[Alexander von Humboldt|Humboldt]] of the East" because of his ethno-geographical notes).

Members of the German religious group known as [[Templers (religious believers)|Templers]] settled in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] in the late 19th century and lived there for several generations, but were expelled by the British from [[Mandatory Palestine]] during [[World War II]], due to pro-Nazi sympathies expressed by many of them.

Communist [[East Germany]] had relations with [[Vietnam]] and [[Uganda]] in Africa, but in these cases population movement went mostly to, not from, Germany. After the [[German reunification]], a large percentage of "guest workers" from Communist nations sent to East Germany returned to their home countries.

See also: [[German colonial empire]] and [[List of former German colonies]]

===Oceania===
[[File:Australian Census 2011 demographic map - Australia by SLA - BCP field 1096 German Total Responses.svg|thumb|right|250px|People with German ancestry as a percentage of the population in Australia divided geographically by statistical local area, as of the 2011 census]]

* Australia has received a significant number of ethnic-German immigrants from Germany and elsewhere. Numbers vary depending on who is counted, but moderate criteria give an estimate of 750,000 (4% of the population). The first wave of German immigration to Australia began in 1838, with the arrival of Prussian [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] settlers in [[South Australia]] (see ''[[German settlement in Australia]]''). After the Second World War, Australia received a large influx of displaced ethnic Germans. In the 1950s and 1960s, German immigration continued as part of a large post-war wave of European immigration to Australia.

There have been ethnic Germans in Australia since the founding of the New South Wales colony in 1788, Governor [[Arthur Phillip]] (the first [[Governor of New South Wales]]) had a German father. But, the first significant wave of German immigration was in 1838. These Germans, mostly Prussian immigrants (but also winegrowers from the [[Hesse-Nassau]] state and the [[Rheingau]]). From there after, thousands of Germans emigrated to Australia until [[World War I]]. Also, [[German Australian]] was the most identified ethnicity behind English and Irish in Australia until World War I.

After [[World War II]], large numbers of Germans emigrated to Australia to escape war-torn Europe.

* New Zealand has received modest, but steady, ethnic German immigration from the mid-19th century. Today the number of New Zealanders with German ancestry is estimated to be approximately 200,000 (5% of the population). Many [[German New Zealander]]s anglicized their names during the 20th century due to the negative perception of Germans fostered by World War I and World War II. New Zealanders of German descent include the late former [[Prime Minister of New Zealand|Prime Minister]] [[David Lange]]. The vast majority of Germans in New Zealand settled in the North Island, with a couple settling in the Christchurch area. Cities such as Tauranga, [[Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson]] and, to a lesser extent, Auckland have been somewhat influenced by German culture and values.