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{{Infobox ethnic group
|group = Germans <br /> ''Deutsche''
|image = [[File:Germans collage.jpg|300px]]
|caption= '''1st Row:''' [[Martin Luther]], [[Otto von Bismarck]], [[Ludwig van Beethoven]], [[Immanuel Kant]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]

'''2nt Row:''' [[Johannes Gutenberg]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], [[Richard Wagner]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]

'''3rd Row:''' [[Friedrich Schiller]], [[Karl Marx]], [[Brothers Grimm]], [[Konrad Adenauer]], [[Albrecht Dürer]]

'''4t Row:''' [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]], [[Karl Benz]], [[Konrad Zuse]], [[Marlene Dietrich]], [[Max Planck]]

'''5t Row:''' [[Claudia Schiffer]], [[Albert Einstein]], [[Johannes Kepler]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Heidi Klum]]

'''6t Row:''' [[Willy Brandt]], [[Jürgen Klinsmann]], [[Wernher von Braun]], [[Catherine the Great]], [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]]
|population = German Diaspora '''ca. 150&nbsp;million'''<ref>[http://www.en.bmi.bund.de/nn_148248/Internet/Content/Themen/Auslaender__Fluechtlinge__Asyl__Zuwanderung/DatenundFakten/Deutsche__Auslaender__mit__Migrationshintergrund__en.html Germans and foreigners with an immigrant background] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504094914/http://www.en.bmi.bund.de/nn_148248/Internet/Content/Themen/Auslaender__Fluechtlinge__Asyl__Zuwanderung/DatenundFakten/Deutsche__Auslaender__mit__Migrationshintergrund__en.html |date=2009-05-04 }}. 156 is the estimate which counts all people claiming ethnic German ancestry in the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, and elsewhere.</ref><br />
|regions = {{flag|Germany}} {{nbsp|6}} 75 million<ref name="2005 Microcensus">66.42&nbsp;million is the number of Germans without immigrant background, 75&nbsp;million is the number of German citizens [http://www.en.bmi.bund.de/nn_148248/Internet/Content/Themen/Auslaender__Fluechtlinge__Asyl__Zuwanderung/DatenundFakten/Deutsche__Auslaender__mit__Migrationshintergrund__en.html Germans and foreigners with an immigrant background] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504094914/http://www.en.bmi.bund.de/nn_148248/Internet/Content/Themen/Auslaender__Fluechtlinge__Asyl__Zuwanderung/DatenundFakten/Deutsche__Auslaender__mit__Migrationshintergrund__en.html |date=2009-05-04 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2046121,00.html |title=Deutsche Welle: 2005 German Census figures |publisher=Dw-world.de |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html |title=CIA World Factbook – Germany: People |publisher=Cia.gov |accessdate=28 September 2011 |archive-date=2016-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211075204/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|region1     = [[#Geographic distribution|see below]]; see an aw [[Ethnic Germans]].
|langs=German: [[Heich German]] ([[Upper German]], [[Central German]]), [[Law German]] (see [[German dialects]])
|rels=Roman Catholic, Protestant (chiefly [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]])
|related= [[Austrians]], [[Danes]], [[Dutch fowk|Dutch]], [[Inglis fowk|Inglis]], [[Flemish fowk|Flemish]], [[French fowk|French]], [[Icelanders]], [[Norse fowk]],<ref name="hpgl.stanford.edu"/> [[Romansch fowk|Romansch]], [[Swadish fowk|Swades]],<ref name="hpgl.stanford.edu">{{Cite web |url=http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/EJHG_2002_v10_521-529.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-07-10 |archive-date=2011-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927060758/http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/EJHG_2002_v10_521-529.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> an [[Germanic fowks|ither Germanic fowks]]
}}
The '''Germans''' ({{lang-de|Deutsche}}) are a [[Germanic fowks|Germanic]] [[ethnic group]] native tae [[Central Europe]]. The Inglis/Scots term ''Germans'' haes referred tae the [[German leid|German-speakin]] population o the [[Holy Roman Empire]] syne the [[Late Middle Ages]].<ref>alangside the slichtly earlier term ''Almayns''; [[John o Trevisa]]'s 1387 translation o [[Ranulf Higdon]]'s ''Polychronicon'' haes: ''{{lang|enm|Þe empere passede from þe Grees to þe Frenschemen and to þe Germans, þat beeþ Almayns.}}'' Durin the 15t an 16t centuries, ''Dutch'' wis the adjective uised in the sense "pertainin tae Germans". Uise o ''German'' as an adjective dates tae ca. 1550. The adjective ''Dutch'' narraeed its sense tae "o the Netherlands" durin the 17t century.</ref> Legally, Germans are ceetizens o the Federal Republic o [[Germany]].

O approximately 100 million native speakers o German in the warld, aboot 66–75&nbsp;million consider thairsels Germans. Thare are an additional 80&nbsp;million fowk o German ancestry mainly in the [[Unitit States]], [[Brazil]], [[Canadae]], [[Argentinae]], [[Fraunce]], [[Roushie]], [[Chile]], [[Poland]], [[Australie]] an [[Romanie]] (who maist likely are no native speakers o German).<ref>{{es}} [http://www.traduccion.at/4.html Hablantes del alemán en el mundo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320164829/http://www.traduccion.at/4.html |date=2012-03-20 }}</ref> Sicweys, the tot nummer o Germans warldwide lees atween 66 an 160 million, dependin on the criteria appleed (native speakers, single-ancestry ethnic Germans, pairtial German ancestry, etc.).

The day, fowks frae kintras wi a German-speakin majority or significant German-speakin population groups ither than Germany, sic as [[Austrick]], [[Swisserland]], [[Liechtenstein]] an [[Luxembourg]], hae developit thair awn naitional identity an uisually dae no refer tae thairsels as "Germans" in a modren context.

==Leid==
{{Main|German leid}}

The native leid o Germans is German, a [[Wast Germanic leids|Wast Germanic leid]], relatit tae an classifeed alangside Inglis an [[Dutch leid|Dutch]], an sharin mony similarities wi the [[North Germanic leids|North Germanic]] or Scandinavie leids. Spoken bi approximately 100 million [[First leid|native speakers]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm |title=Most Widely Spoken Languages |publisher=.ignatius.edu |date=28 May 2011 |accessdate=28 September 2011 |archive-date=2011-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927062910/http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> German is ane o the warld's [[warld leid|major leids]] an the maist widely spoken [[first leid]] in the [[European Union]].

===Dialects===
{{Main|German dialects}}
[[File:Europe germanic-languages 2.PNG|220px|thumb|right|'''Wast Germanic eids'''
{{legend|#9cff00|Dutch (Law Franconie, Wast Germanic)}}
{{legend|#38ff00|Law German (Wast Germanic)}}
{{legend|#00d200|Central German (Heich German, Wast Germanic)}}
{{legend|#008000|Upper German (Heich German, Wast Germanic)}}
{{legend|#ff8811|Inglis (Anglo-Frisie, Wast Germanic)}}
{{legend|#ffbb77|Frisie (Anglo-Frisie, Wast Germanic)}}
'''North Germanic leids'''
{{legend|#0000ff|East Scandinavie}}
{{legend|#00ffff|Wast Scandinavie}}
{{legend|#ff0000|Line dividin the North an Wast Germanic leids}}]]
*[[Heich German]]
**[[Upper German]]
***[[Bavaries]] (ca. 10 million) form the [[Bavarie leid|Austro-Bavarie]] linguistic group, thegither wi those [[Austrians]] who speak German an dae no live in [[Vorarlberg]] an the wastren Tyrol destrict o [[Reutte (destrict)|Reutte]]. [[Swabians]] (ca. 10 million) form the [[Alemannic German|Alemannic]] group, thegither wi the [[Alemannic Swiss]], Liechtensteiners, [[Alsatian leid|Alsatians]] an [[Vorarlberg]]ians.
**[[Central German]] dialect group (ca. 45 million)
***[[Wast Central German]]
****[[Central Franconie]] ([[Ripuarian leid|Ripuarian]], [[Kölsch leid|Kölsch]]), forms a dialectal unity wi [[Luxembourgis leid|Luxembourgis]], [[Rhine Franconie]]([[Hessian dialects|Hessian]])
***[[East Central German]]
****[[Staundart German]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=1205-16 |title=Ethnologue: East Middle German |accessdate=6 March 2011}}</ref> [[Thuringie dialect|Thuringie]], [[Upper Saxon German|Upper Saxon]], [[Heich Proushie]], [[German minority in Poland|German Silesian]]
**[[Yiddish leid|Yiddish]], a Heich German leid o [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi Jewish]] oreegin, spoken throughoot the warld. It developit as a fusion o German dialects wi [[Ebreu]], [[Slavic leids]] an traces o [[Romance leids]].<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eyBQn7JrBVwC&pg=PA72 ''Introduction to Old Yiddish literature'', p. 72], Baumgarten and Frakes, Oxford University Press, 2005</ref><ref>[http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/givennames/yiddial.htm "Development of Yiddish over the ages"], www.jewishgen.org</ref> 
*[[Law German]] (ca. 3–10&nbsp;million), forms a dialectal unity wi [[Dutch Law Saxon]]
**[[Wast Law German|Law Saxon]], [[East Law German]]

===Native speakers===
Global distribution o native speakers o the German leid:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Kintra
! German speakin population (ootside Europe)
|-
| USA
| 5,000,000<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>
|-
| [[Brazil]]
| 3,000,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Roushie]]
| 2,000,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Poland]]
| 800,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Argentinae]]
| 500,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| Canadae
| 450,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" /> – 620,000<ref name="Statcan">{{cite web |url=http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89189&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=705&Temporal=2006&Theme=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&GID=837928 |title=Statistics Canada 2006 |publisher=2.statcan.ca |date=6 January 2010 |accessdate=15 March 2010 |archive-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225074451/https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=837928%20&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=89189&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF= |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| [[Bolivie]]
| 300,000<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=[[Spanish language|Spanish]] |format=[[PDF]] |page=188 |accessdate=12 June 2012 |archive-date=2014-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224061845/http://convergencia.uaemex.mx/rev38/38pdf/LIZCANO.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/world/americas/21bolivia.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Bolivian Reforms Raise Anxiety on Mennonite Frontier], New York Times</ref><ref>[http://mexico.cnn.com/videos/2012/06/07/los-menonitas-en-bolivia Los Menonitas en Bolivia] '''CNN México/CNN en Español'''</ref>
|-
| [[Italy]]
| 250,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Hungary]]
| 220,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Paraguay]]
| 186,000<ref name="Lizcano-CR"/>
|-
| Australie
| 110,000
|-
| Sooth Africae
| 75,000 (German expatriate ceetizens)<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Belgium]]
| 66,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Mexico]]
| 40,000<ref name=Mennonite>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hshs.mb.ca/mennonite_old_colony_vision.pdf|title=The Mennonite Old Colony Vision: ''Under siege in Mexico and the Canadian Connection''|format=PDF|accessdate=2007-05-30|archive-date=2013-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404152020/http://www.hshs.mb.ca/mennonite_old_colony_vision.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Chile]]
| 40,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Namibie]]
| 30,000 (German expatriate ceetizens)<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Denmark]]
| 20,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Romanie]]
| 15,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|-
| [[Venezuela]]
| 10,000<ref name="Handwörterbuch" />
|}

==Geographic distribution==
[[File:Oktoberfest VGBelgrano.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[German Argentine]]s celebrate [[Oktoberfest]] in [[Villa General Belgrano]], Argentinae.]]

Ethnic Germans form an important minority group in several kintras in [[Central Europe|central]] an eastren Europe—([[Demographics o Poland|Poland]], [[Demographics o Hungary|Hungary]], [[Demographics o Romanie|Romanie]], [[Demographics o Roushie|Roushie]]) as well as in [[Demographics o Namibie|Namibie]] ([[German Namibie]]), [[Demographics o Brazil|Brazil]] ([[German Brazilian]]) (approx. 3% o the population),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.passeiweb.com/na_ponta_lingua/sala_de_aula/geografia/geografia_do_brasil/demografia_imigracoes/brasil_imigracoes_alemanha |title=A Imigração Alemã&#124; Brasil &#124; Deutsche Welle &#124; 14.01.2010 |publisher=Passeiweb.com |date=6 January 1990 |accessdate=28 September 2011 |archive-date=2011-07-15 |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> [[Argentinae]] ([[German Argentine]]) (1,5%<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 |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref> ~ 7,5% o the population)<ref>[[German-Argentine]] Descendants of Germans in Argentina</ref> an [[Chile]] ([[German Chilean|German-Chilean]]) (approx. 1% o the population).<ref name="Oliver Zoellner">{{cite web|author=Oliver Zoellner |url=http://www.research-worldwide.de/article-chile2005.html |title=Oliver Zoellner &#124; Generating Samples of Ethnic Minorities in Chile |publisher=Research-worldwide.de |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>

Some groups mey be classifeed as Ethnic Germans despite nae langer haein German as thair mither tongue or belangin tae a destinct German cultur. Till the 1990s, twa million Ethnic Germans livit throughoot the umwhile Soviet Union, pairticularly in Roushie an [[Kazakhstan]].

In the Unitit States 1990 census, 57 million fowk wur fully or pairtly o German ancestry, formin the lairgest single ethnic group in the kintra. States wi the heichest percentage o Americans o German strynd are in the northren [[Midwast]] (especially [[Wisconsin]], [[Minnesota]], [[North Dakota]], [[Sooth Dakota]], [[Nebraska]], [[Iowa]], [[Kansas]], [[Michigan]]) an the [[Mid-Atlantic states|Mid-Atlantic]] state, [[Pennsylvania]]. But Germanic immigrant enclaves existit in mony ither states (e.g., the [[German Texan]]s an the [[Denver]], Colorado aurie) an tae a lesser extent, the Paceefic Northwast (i.e. [[Idaho]], [[Montana]], [[Oregon]] an [[Washington (state)|Washington state]]).

Notable Ethnic German minorities exist in ither [[Anglosphere]] kintras sic as [[Demographics o Canadae|Canadae]] (approx. 10% o the population) an [[Demographics o Australie|Australie]] (approx. 4% o the population) an aw. As in the Unitit States, maist fowk o German strynd in Canadae an Australie hae amaist completely assimilatit, culturally an linguistically, intae the Inglis-speakin mainstream.

Distribution o German ceetizens an fowk claimin German ancestry:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Kintra
! [[Ethnic Germans|German ancestry]]
! [[Germans Abroad|German ceetizens]]
! Comments
|-
| {{flag|Germany}}
| 66,420,000
| 75,000,000<ref name="2005 Microcensus"/>
| see [[Demographics o Germany]]
|-
| {{flag|Unitit States}}
| 50,000,000<ref>49.2&nbsp;million [[German Americans]] as o 2005 accordin tae the {{cite web|title=US demographic census|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-reg=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201:535;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201PR:535;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201T:535;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201TPR:535&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201TPR&-ds_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_&-TABLE_NAMEX=&-ci_type=A&-redoLog=false&-charIterations=047&-geo_id=01000US&-format=&-_lang=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090403034514/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-reg=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201:535;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201PR:535;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201T:535;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201TPR:535&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201TPR&-ds_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_&-TABLE_NAMEX=&-ci_type=A&-redoLog=false&-charIterations=047&-geo_id=01000US&-format=&-_lang=en|archive-date=2009-04-03|accessdate=2 August 2007|coauthors=United States Census Bureau}}; see an aw [[Leids in the Unitit States#German]].</ref>
|
| see [[German American]]
|-
| {{flag|Brazil}}
| 5,000,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.passeiweb.com/na_ponta_lingua/sala_de_aula/geografia/geografia_do_brasil/demografia_imigracoes/brasil_imigracoes_alemanha |title=A Imigração Alemã no Brasil &#124; Brasil &#124; Deutsche Welle &#124; 25.07.2004 |publisher=Passeiweb.com |date=6 January 1990 |accessdate=28 September 2011 |archive-date=2011-07-15 |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>
|
| see [[German Brazilian]]
|-
| {{flag|Canadae}}
| 3,200,000<ref>[http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/highlight/ETO/Table1.cfm?Lang=E&T=501&GV=1&GID=0 2001 Canadian Census] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409060848/http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/highlight/ETO/Table1.cfm?Lang=E&T=501&GV=1&GID=0|date=2013-04-09}} gives 2,742,765 total respondents stating their ''ethnic origin'' as partly German, with 705,600 stating "single-ancestry", see [[List of Canadians by ethnicity]].</ref>
|
| see [[Canadians o German ethnicity]]
|-
|{{flag|Sooth Africae}}
| 1,200,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/meadows/7589/intro_en.html |title=Germans in South Africa |publisher=Webcitation.org |accessdate=28 September 2011 |archive-date=2009-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020120941/http://geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/7589/intro_en.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Professor JA Heese in his book Die Herkoms van die Afrikaner (''The Origins of Afrikaners'') claims the modern [[Afrikaner|Afrikaners]] (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=2012-10-13}}</ref>
|
| see [[Afrikaner]]. Awtho studies shaw that atween 30–40% o Afrikaners hae German ancestry, due tae intermarriage this figur is likely tae be hintle heicher.
|-
| {{flag|Argentinae}}
| 600,000<ref>[http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/secretaria_gral/colectividades/?col=1]~3,000,000 Including Volga Germans, and other German ancestries</ref>
|
| see [[German Argentine]]
|-
|The {{flag|CIS}} <small>(mainly {{flag|Roushie}} an {{flag|Kazakhstan}})</small>
| 1,000,000
| 600,000<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.perepis2002.ru/index.html?id=17 |title=597,212 in Russia as of 2002, 0.4 of Russian population |access-date=2012-07-13 |archive-date=2012-01-24 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/64vB3cy04?url=http://www.perepis2002.ru/index.html?id=17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| see [[History o Germans in Roushie an the Soviet Union|Germans in Roushie]], [[Germans o Kazakhstan]], [[Volga Germans]], [[Caucasus Germans]]
|-
|{{flag|Fraunce}}
| 1,000,000<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 |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.everyculture.com/Europe/Alsatians.html |title=Alsatians |publisher=Everyculture.com |date=16 January 2010 |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
| predominant ethnic group o [[Alsace]] an [[Moselle]]; 970,000 wi German dialects as mither tongue
|-
| {{flag|Australie}}
| 812,000<ref>The {{PDFlink|[http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/AD2222ECE5AD4396CA25712500161734/$File/29330_2001.pdf Australian Bureau of Statistics]|424&nbsp;KB}} reports 742,212 people of German ancestry in the 2001 Census. German is spoken by ca. 135,000 [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=AU], about 105,000 of them Germany-born, see [[Demographics of Australia]]</ref>
|
| incl. 106,524 German-born. See [[German Australie]]
|-
|{{flag|Italy}} <small>(in [[Sooth Tyrol]])</small>
| 500,000<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://demo.istat.it/str2006/query.php?lingua=ita&Rip=S0&paese=A11&submit=Tavola |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-07-13 |archive-date=2011-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719030027/http://demo.istat.it/str2006/query.php?lingua=ita&Rip=S0&paese=A11&submit=Tavola |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.provincia.bz.it/downloads/Siz_2006-eng.pdf South Tyrol in figures]. Provincial Statistics Institute.</ref>
|
|
|-
|{{flag|Netherlands}}
|
| 179,000<ref>378,947 (2010, 2.3% o Dutch population). [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 cbs.nl]</ref>
|
|-
|{{flag|Unitit Kinrick}}
| 262,000<ref>German born anerlie; [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/born_abroad/countries/html/germany.stm Born Abroad: An Immigration map of Britain: Germany, 2001]</ref> (This figure includes childer born tae Breetish Military personnel serving on Breetish Military bases in Germany)
| 92,000<ref>2008, 0.15% o UK population. [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090129001915/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/Pop_country_of_birth_and_nationality_Apr07_Mar08.zip statistics.gov.uk]</ref>
| see [[German migration tae the Unitit Kinrick]]
|-
| {{flag|Spain}}
| 255,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ine.com |title=INE(2006) |publisher=INE |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
| German immigrants
|-
|{{flag|Swisserland}}
|
| 266,000<ref>265,944 (2009, 3.3% o Swiss population) [http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/07/blank/data/01.Document.88361.xls Wohnbevölkerung nach detaillierter Staatsangehörigkeit], Swiss Federal Statistical Office. 163 923 resident aliens (nationals or citizens) in 2004 (2.2% of total population), compared to 112 348 as of 2000. [http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/22/publ.Document.67005.pdf 2005 report of the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics]. 4.6&nbsp;million including [[Swiss German|Alemannic]] [[Swiss (people)|Swiss]]: [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sz.html CIA World Fact Book] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112040925/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sz.html|date=2018-01-12}}, identifies the 65% (4.9&nbsp;million) Swiss German speakers as "ethnic Germans".</ref>
| see [[German immigration tae Swisserland]]
|-
|{{flag|Poland}}
| 153,000<ref>2002 census</ref>
|
| mainly in [[Opole Voivodeship]], see [[German minority in Poland]].
|-
|{{flag|Chile}}
| 800.000
|
| see [[German Chilean]]
|-
|{{flag|Peru}}
| 180,000<ref>{{es}} [http://www.peru-spiegel.de/de/d-per/Deutsche-in-Peru/index.htm / Inmigración Alemana al Perú] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091123081129/http://www.peru-spiegel.de/de/d-per/Deutsche-in-Peru/index.htm |date=2009-11-23 }}</ref>
|
| see [[German Peruvian]]
|-
| {{flag|Hungary}}
| 120,344<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nepszamlalas.hu/eng/volumes/06/00/tabeng/2/load01_12_0.html |title=census 2001 |access-date=2012-07-13 |archive-date=2005-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050903124933/http://www.nepszamlalas.hu/eng/volumes/06/00/tabeng/2/load01_12_0.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
| see [[Germans o Hungary]]
|-
|{{flag|Austrick}}
|
| 124,710<ref>2008, 1.5% o Austrian population. [http://www.integrationsfonds.at/wissen/integration_im_fokus/integration_im_fokus_ausgabe_42008/oesterreich/wer_sind_die_deutschen_migranten/ Wer sind die Deutschen in Österreich?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427214322/http://www.integrationsfonds.at/wissen/integration_im_fokus/integration_im_fokus_ausgabe_42008/oesterreich/wer_sind_die_deutschen_migranten/ |date=2009-04-27 }}</ref>
|
|-
|{{flag|Israel}}
|
| 100,000<ref>{{cite web|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 |publisher=Ynetnews.com |date=20 June 1995 |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
|-
| {{flag|Venezuela}}
| 70,000
|
| see [[German Venezuelan]]
|-
| {{flag|Romanie}}
| 60,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Laender/Rumaenien.html |title=German minority |language={{de icon}} |publisher=Auswaertiges-amt.de |accessdate=28 September 2011 |archive-date=2011-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718201141/http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Laender/Rumaenien.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
| see [[Germans o Romanie]]
|-
|{{flag|Uruguay}}
| 46,000
| 6,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/es/Laenderinformationen/01-Laender/Uruguay.html |title=There are 6,000 Germans living in Uruguay today and 40,000 descendants of Germans |language={{de icon}} |publisher=Auswaertiges-amt.de |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
|-
|{{flag|Czech Republic}}
| 40,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radio.cz/en/article/27184 |title=Ethnic German Minorities in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia |publisher=Radio.cz |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
| see [[Germans in the Czech Republic]]
|-
|{{flag|Bolivie}}
| 40,000<ref>{{cite web |last=Romero |first=Simon |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/21/news/bolivia.php |title=Land reform worries Bolivia's Mennonites |work=International Herald Tribune |date=21 December 2006 |accessdate=28 September 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161413/http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/21/news/bolivia.php |archivedate=2006-12-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
| German speakin Mennonites. See [[Ethnic Germans in Bolivie]]
|-
|{{flag|Belgium}}
| 38,366<ref>{{nl}} {{cite web|url=http://statbel.fgov.be/nl/modules/publications/statistiques/bevolking/Bevolking_nat_geslacht_leeftijdsgroepen.jsp|title=Bevolking per nationaliteit, geslacht, leeftijdsgroepen op 1 January 2008|publisher=[[Statistics Belgium]]|accessdate=30 May 2010|archive-date=2011-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120220853/http://statbel.fgov.be/nl/modules/publications/statistiques/bevolking/Bevolking_nat_geslacht_leeftijdsgroepen.jsp|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|
| excludes [[Eupen-Malmedy|German-speakin ethnic Belgians]]
|-
|{{flag|Norawa}}
| 37,000<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ssb.no/innvbef_en/tab-2009-04-30-05-en.html |title=Norway |access-date=2012-07-13 |archive-date=2010-02-01 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5nDtcE5XJ?url=http://www.ssb.no/innvbef_en/tab-2009-04-30-05-en.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
|
|-
|{{flag|Ecuador}}
| 33,000<ref>{{cite web|author=Joshua Project |url=http://www.joshuaproject.net/countries.php |title=Ethnic groups around the world |publisher=joshuaproject.net |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
|
|
|-
| {{flag|Namibie}}
| 30,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2D71E3CF935A15751C1A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print |title=Amid Namibia's White Opulence, Majority Rule Isn't So Scary Now |work=New York Times |date=26 December 1988 |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
| [[German Namibie]]
|-
|{{flag|Dominican Republic}}
| 25,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Laender/DominikanischeRepublik.html |title=Dominican Republic |language={{de icon}} |publisher=Auswaertiges-amt.de |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
|
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}}
| 15,000–20,000<ref>in the German-Dens border region; see [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=2013-03-16 }}</ref>
|
|
|-
|{{flag|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 |format=PDF |accessdate=28 September 2011 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924120743/http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/A1604/Other/A1604_SAP03_TB_DC_00_2001_09_F_GR.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
|-
|{{flag|Ireland}}
| 11,797<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cso.ie/statistics/placebirthagegroup.htm |title=CSO: Statistics: Persons usually resident and present in the State on Census Night, classifieid by place of birth and age group |publisher=Cso.ie |date=13 May 2008 |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
|
|-
|{{flag|Slovakie}}
| 5000–10,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Laenderinformationen/01-Laender/Slowakei.html |title=Slovakia |language={{de icon}} |publisher=Auswaertiges-amt.de |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
|
|-
|{{flag|Philippines}}
| 6,400<ref>2000 census</ref>
|
| see [[German settlement in the Philippines]]
|-
|{{flag|Serbie}}
| 3,900
|
| see [[Germans o Serbie]]
|-
|{{flag|Turkmenistan}}
| 2,700<ref name="joshuaproject.net">{{cite web|author=Joshua Project |url=http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php |title=joshuaproject.net |publisher=joshuaproject.net |accessdate=28 September 2011}}</ref>
|
|
|-
|{{flag|Tajikistan}}
| 2,700<ref name="joshuaproject.net"/>
|
|-
| {{flag|Jamaica}}
| 160<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0060.htm Out Of Many Cultures The People Who Came The Arrival Of The GERMANS |title=The Arrival Of The GERMANS |work=Jamaica Gleaner |date=2 March 2004 |accessdate=31 May 2012}}</ref>
|
| [[Germans in Jamaica]]
|}

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