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Hellenic Diaspora Communities
The following figures must only be considered as estimates, there seems to be some confusion between actual migrants and those figures including descendants.
Several sources indicate that the number of Greek migrants and their descendants currently living in Australia are approximately 700,000, with the United States figures reaching approximately 1.5 million
United States
Note: These figures are most likely quite low due to the fact that country boundaries changed and immigration from Crete, Macedonia, Cyprus, and Greeks living in Smyrna, Turkey, etc. are probably not represented. During the period of 1901-1930 Turkey had immigration figures of 325,259. (Source of information: Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration and Assimilation, by L. Dinnerstein and D. Reimers, ISBN# 060416467, pages 162-171, source of data - Annual Report, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1973.
Immigrants to U.S. from Greece
Year Immigrants
1821-1840 69
1841-1860 47
1861-1880 282
1881-1900 18,287
1901-1920 351,720
1921-1940 60,203
1941-1960 56,581
1961-1973 121,772
Australia
Note: The figures from 1788-1900 are approximate. Statistics from Transplanting the Agora: Hellenic Settlement in Australia by Yiannis E. Dimitreas, ISBN# 1864484306
Immigrants to Australia from Greece
Year Immigrants
1788-1880 700
1880-1900 1,600
1900-1945 15,000
1945-1968 202,334
Other areas of migration include:
Statistics from “The Greeks in Australia - A Home Away From Home” by Andreas Papageorgopoulos - ISBN# 0867964006
Approximate # of Migrants
Host Country & Descendants as of 1981
Canada........................................................................250,000
South & Central America
Brazil.....................................................................17,000
Argentina..............................................................35,000
Mexico.......................................................................200
Bahamas.....................................................................400
Panama.......................................................................400
Uruguay....................................................................2,000
Bolivia............................................................................25
Columbia......................................................................150
Paraguay.........................................................................25
Peru...............................................................................100
Chili...............................................................................600
Egypt...................................................................................8,000
Africa
Ethiopia.........................................................................750
Algeria..............................................................................30
Zaire.............................................................................2,000
Zambia.........................................................................2,000
Cameroon.....................................................................1,200
Kenya...............................................................................300
Libya.............................................................................4,000
Madagascar........................................................................60
Morocco...........................................................................600
Mozambique....................................................................800
Nigeria...........................................................................2,100
Asia
Japan..................................................................................50
Iran...................................................................................400
Lebanon.........................................................................3,500
Saudi Arabia..................................................................7,000
Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong,
Thailand, Singapore.................................200
Europe
Germany.....................................................................380,000
Great Britain...............................................................160,000
Austria..............................................................................1,200
Belgium...........................................................................23,000
Bulgaria.............................................................................5,500
France..............................................................................30,000
Denmark...............................................................................800
Switzerland.......................................................................11,000
Spain......................................................................................500
Italy.....................................................................................5,000
Luxemburg.............................................................................175
Malta........................................................................................40
Norway....................................................................................170
Netherlands..........................................................................3,500
Hungary.....................................................................................15
Poland........................................................................................20
Romania...................................................................................500
Sweden..................................................................................21,000
Czechoslavakia......................................................................12,000
Finland........................................................................................100
Old Soviet Union................................................................400,000