Romanian diaspora
"Romanian diaspora" is a term that encompasses the total ethnic Romanian population located outside Romania. The term does not usually count those ethnic Romanians living as natives in the states surrounding Romania, chiefly those Romanians living in Moldova, Ukraine and Serbia. The numbers of the diaspora also counts people of Romanian ancestry born in the respective country. A Google search will show that most English searches will reveal a number of 8 million, while a Romanian search will display a number slightly higher, anywhere from 8 to 12 million.
In 2006, the Romanian diaspora was estimated at about 8 million people by the president of Romania, Traian Băsescu, most of them living in the former USSR, Western Europe (esp. Spain and France, see Romanian-French), North America, South America and Australia. [5] It is unclear if Băsescu included the Romanians living in the immediate surroundings of the Romanian state. It is also unclear if Băsescu counted Jewish-Romanians, ethnic Hungarians who are native to Northern Romania, also known as Csangos or Zeklers and Transylvanian Saxons of ethnic German origins as Romanians when he made his estimate, as well as third-generation individuals in the United States and Canada.
Bellow is a list of ethnic Romanians living throughout the world, they are found living in all six continents, excluding those who live in states around Romania, where the figures are estimated to be around 4 million people. There are ethnic Romanians in Turkey, both in Asian and European parts of the country, descendants of Walachian settlers invited by the Ottoman Empire from the early 14th to the late 19th centuries. Over 100,000 ethnic Romanians are living throughout far eastern Russia, thousands of Moldovan-Romanians in villages of the Amur River valley in the Chinese Manchurian side of that river, and about 2,000 Romanian immigrants in Japan since the late 20th century. [citation needed]
| Country | Romanian Population |
|---|---|
 Spain |
321,000 (2006)[1] |
 USA |
367,000 (2000)[2][3] - 1,100,000 [6] |
 Italy |
297,570[4][5] |
 Brazil |
233,280 (est.) |
| Commonwealth of Independent States | 200,000[citation needed] |
 Canada |
131,320 [6] - 400,000[7] |
 France |
100,000 |
 Germany |
73,365 (500,000 Transylvanian Saxons and Swabians)[7] |
 Israel |
50,000 (450,000 Romanian Jews)[8] |
 Turkey |
30,000 [9] |
 Greece |
29,000 |
 Austria |
23,000 [9] |
 United Kingdom |
20,000 |
 Sweden |
13,000 [9] |
 Australia |
10,000-20,000[10] |
 Venezuela |
10,000–12,000 [9] |
 Argentina |
10,000 [9] |
 Slovakia |
9,000 [9] |
 New Zealand |
5,000 |
 Japan |
2,000 |
| TOTAL | 3,700,000 |
References
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística: Avance del Padrón Municipal a 1 de enero de 2006. Datos provisionales. [1]. According to FEDROM – Federaţia Asociaţiilor Româneşti din Spania, the total number of Romanians living in Spain could be well over 500,000 people.
- ^ 2000 U.S. Census, ancestry responses
- ^ Depending on how one counts who is Romanian, the number in the U.S. may be considerably higher. A study by ro-am.net counts 1.2 million in the U.S. who understand Romanian; their numbers are a bit vague, but (once one discounts Jews, Armenians, etc.) seem to suggest a figure of about 900,000 ethnic Romanians.
- ^ [2]
- ^ [3] Almost 300.000 Romanians in Italy at the end of 2005, according to the Statistical Institute of Italy
- ^ Statistics Canada, Canada 2001 Census. [4], discussed further at List of Canadians by ethnicity
- ^ Foreign-born population by country of origin, 2004, German Statistical Office. The number for Germany does not count some half million ethnic Swabians whose families historically lived in Transylvania, and who relocated to Germany at various times in the 20th century.
- ^ The number for Israel does not count 450,000 Jews of Romanian origin.
- ^ a b c d e f "Românii din diaspora" ("Romanians in diaspora") on the site of The Foundation for Romanians from All Over the World, retrieved December 24, 2004.
- ^ ABS 2001 Census figures report 10-20,000 respondents indicating Romanian ancestry; 12,950 reported as Romanian-born (but not necessarily of Romanian ethnicity).