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Spanish diaspora
Spanish: Diáspora Española
Total population
Spanish nationals abroad: 2,618,592 (2020 est)[1] (of which 766,966 were born in Spain)
Regions with significant populations
Number of Spanish citizens by country
Argentina
473,519[2]
France
279,988[3]
Germany
257,000[4]
United States
167,426[2]
United Kingdom
152,291[2]
Cuba
147,617[2]
Mexico
144,553[2]
Venezuela
142,302[2]
Brazil
133,188[2]
Switzerland
124,414[2]
Belgium
67,960[2]
Uruguay
67,414[2]
Chile
66,399[2]
Ecuador
58,646[2]
Romania
46,000[5]
Colombia
37,086[2]
Netherlands
29,984[2]
Peru
28,425[2]
Dominican Republic
27,310[2]
Andorra
26,558[2]
Italy
25,446[2]
Australia
22,785[2]
Canada
18,118[2]
Portugal
16,981[6]
Bolivia
16,676[2]
Panama
14,503[2]
Morocco
11,342[2]
Sweden
11,235[2]
Ireland
10,681[2]
Philippines
3,110[7]
El Salvador
2,450[8]
Ukraine
965[9]
Languages
Spanish languages (mainly Spanish, also Basque, Catalan, Galician, etc.), French, English, Portuguese, German, and others.
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Portuguese
French
Italians other Western Europeans · Hispanics
Sephardi Jews
The Spanish diaspora consists of Spanish people and their descendants who emigrated from Spain. In the Americas, the term may refer to those of Spanish nationality living there; "Hispanic" is usually a more appropriate term to describe the general Spanish-speaking populations of the Americas together with those in Spain. The diaspora is concentrated in places that were part of the Spanish Empire. Countries with sizeable populations are Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and, to a lesser extent, Brazil, Belize, Haiti, United States, Canada, the Philippines and the rest of Europe.
According to the latest data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística's Register of Spaniards Resident Abroad (PERE), "the number of people with Spanish nationality living abroad reached 2,742,605 on January 1, 2022, an increase of 3.3% (87,882 people) with respect to the data from the same day last year".[10]
^El País, 17 March 2016. (In Spanish)
^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyExplotación estadística del Padrón de Españoles Residentes en el Extranjero a 1 de enero de 2020
^"Estadística del Padrón de Españoles Residentes en el Extranjero (PERE)a 1 de enero de 2021" (PDF). www.ine.es. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
^"More Than 250,000 Spanish People in Germany".
^"Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country of Origin and Destination". February 10, 2014.
^Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras: Relatório de Imigração, Fronteiras e Asilo 2020
^There are 3,110 immigrants from Spain according to INE, January 1, 2012
^Censo electoral de españoles residentes en el extranjero 2009 Archived 2010-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
^State statistics committee of Ukraine - National composition of population, 2001 census (Ukrainian)
^"More Spaniards move out of Spain to live and work abroad". Muria Today. March 17, 2022.
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