Editing Croats (section)

===Diaspora===
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{{Main|Croatian diaspora}}
[[File:Croatian Embassy in Canberra.JPG|thumb|255px|right|Croatian Embassy in [[Canberra]], Australia]]
There are currently 4–4.5&nbsp;million Croats in [[diaspora]] throughout the world. The Croat diaspora was the consequence of either mostly economic or political ([[coercion]] or expulsions) reasons:
* To other European countries ([[Croats of Slovenia|Slovenia]], [[Croats of Italy|Italy]], [[Croatians in Austria|Austria]], [[Croats in Slovakia|Slovakia]], [[Croats in Germany|Germany]], [[Croats of Hungary|Hungary]]), caused by the conquering of [[Ottoman Turks]], when Croats as Roman Catholics [[Persecution of Christians#Ottoman Empire|were oppressed]].
* To the Americas (largely to [[Croatian Canadians|Canada]], the [[Croatian Americans|United States of America]], [[Croatian Chileans|Chile]], and [[Croatian Argentines|Argentina]], with smaller communities in [[Croatian Uruguayans|Uruguay]], [[Croatian Brazilians|Brazil]], [[Croatian Peruvians|Peru]], [[Croatian Colombians|Colombia]], and [[Croatian Ecuadorians|Ecuador]]) in the end of 19th and early 20th century, large numbers of Croats emigrated particularly for economic reasons.
* To New Zealand, predominately the [[Northland Region]], to work on [[Kauri gum]] plantations.<ref name="voxy.co.nz"/>
* A further, larger wave of emigration, this time for political reasons, took place after the end of the [[World War II in Yugoslavia]]. At this time, both collaborators of the [[Ustaše|Ustasha]] regime and those who did not want to live under a [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|communist]] regime fled the country, to the Americas and [[Oceania]] once more.
* As immigrant workers, particularly to Germany, Austria, and [[Croats of Switzerland|Switzerland]] in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition, some [[emigrants]] left for political reasons. This migration made it possible for communist [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] to achieve lower unemployment and at the same time the money sent home by emigrants to their families provided an enormous source of foreign exchange income.
* The last large wave of Croat emigration occurred during and after the [[Yugoslav Wars]] (1991–1995). Migrant communities already established in the Americas, Oceania, and across Europe grew as a result.

The count for diaspora is approximate because of incomplete statistical records and [[naturalization]]. Overseas, the United States contains the largest [[Croatian Americans|Croatian emigrant group]] (414,714 according to the 2010 census), mostly in [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Illinois]] and [[California]], with a sizable community in [[Alaska]], followed by [[Croatian Australians|Australia]] (133,268 according to the 2016 census, with concentrations in [[Sydney]], [[Melbourne]] and [[Perth]]) and Canada (133,965 according to the 2016 census, mainly in [[Southern Ontario]], [[British Columbia]] and [[Alberta]]).

Various estimations put the total number of Americans and Canadians with at least some Croatian ancestry at 2 million, many of whom do not identify as such in the countries' censuses.<ref name="Farkas"/><ref name="Paquin"/><ref name="Directory of Historical Organizatio"/><ref name="Zanger"/><ref name="Levinson, Ember"/><ref>{{cite book|page=690|title=Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 1994: Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizations|year=1993|publisher=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs}}</ref><ref name="National Genealogical Inquirer"/><ref name="Croats in North and South America">{{cite web|url=http://www.hia.com.hr/iseljenici/iseljenici01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304011728/http://www.hia.com.hr/iseljenici/iseljenici01.html|archive-date=2007-03-04|title=HIA – iseljenici|website=Hia.com.hr|access-date=18 March 2015}}</ref>

Croats have also emigrated in several waves to South America: chiefly [[Croatian Chileans|Chile]], [[Croatian Argentines|Argentina]], and [[Croatian Brazilians|Brazil]]; estimates of their number vary wildly, from 150,000 up to 500,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.matis.hr/vijesti.php?id=398|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311054547/http://www.matis.hr/vijesti.php?id=398|publisher =[[Croatian Heritage Foundation]]|author=Većeslav Holjevac|title=In his book Hrvati izvan domovine estimates the number of Croatian emigrants in South America at 180,000 in 1932.|archive-date=11 March 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hia.com.hr/iseljenici01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304010544/http://www.hia.com.hr/iseljenici01.html|work=Croatian Emigrant Adresary|title=The Croatian Emigrant Adresary places the total number of Croats in South America as high as 500,000|archive-date=4 March 2007}}</ref> Both the presidents of Chile ([[Gabriel Boric]]) and Argentina ([[Javier Milei]]) are of Croatian descent.<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 November 2021 |title=Chilean Politician of Croatian Origin Runs for Presidency |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/05/chilean-politician-of-croatian-origin-runs-for-presidency/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531060823/https://balkaninsight.com/2021/11/05/chilean-politician-of-croatian-origin-runs-for-presidency/ |archive-date=31 May 2022 |access-date=19 December 2021 |website=Balkan Insight}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=22 November 2023 |title=Rodrigo Lussich reveló qué lazo familiar lo une a Javier Milei y sorprendió a todos |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/rodrigo-lussich-sorprendio-a-todos-y-revelo-el-lazo-familiar-que-lo-une-con-javier-milei-nid20112023/ |access-date=3 December 2023 |website=La Nación |language=es}}</ref>

There are also smaller groups of Croatian descendants in Brazil, [[Croatian Ecuadorians|Ecuador]], [[Croatian Peruvians|Peru]], South Africa, Mexico, and South Korea. The most important organizations of the Croatian [[diaspora]] are the [[Croatian Fraternal Union]], [[Croatian Heritage Foundation]] and the Croatian World Congress.
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