The diaspora in America of each European country in relation to the country’s population. (Source: American Census)

16 comments
  1. [https://data.census.gov/table?t=Ancestry&d=ACS+5-Year+Estimates+Detailed+Tables&tid=ACSDT5Y2020.B04006https://data.census.gov/table?t=Ancestry&d=ACS+5-Year+Estimates+Detailed+Tables&tid=ACSDT5Y2020.B04006](https://data.census.gov/table?t=Ancestry&d=ACS+5-Year+Estimates+Detailed+Tables&tid=ACSDT5Y2020.B04006https://data.census.gov/table?t=Ancestry&d=ACS+5-Year+Estimates+Detailed+Tables&tid=ACSDT5Y2020.B04006)

    Source

  2. The American census is terribly unreliable though. Most Americans of English descent who’s families have been in North America since the 1700’s identify as American. Then there are those who identify as Irish even though it was only their great grandfather who was.

  3. Norway was a bit of surprise

    Most white Americans are a mix of British and German background I believe (a lot of the German migrants anglicized their last names)

  4. But this is apples and oranges. If I live in Norway, I am a component of the Norwegian population. If I’m an American in 2023, I may well have English, Norwegian, Irish and German ancestry, so would contribute to the “diaspora” of four of the nations on this map.

  5. I read that Ireland, pre-American Revolution, had the highest population density on Earth; is that right? Then the blight scattered them west to the Americas.

Leave a Reply