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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