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Atlas German Colonies, with Yearbook, edited by the German Colonial Society, 1906, Number of Germans on Planer Earth
Number of Germans on Planer Earth (1)

Countries with information, if numbers on persons born in the Reich (R.G.)
or Reich citizens (R.Amg.) are available

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Germans in the countries mentioned on the left
in total male female per 100,000 inhabitants of the respective land
Austria (R.Ang.) 1900 106 364 50 346 56 018 406,7
Hungary (R.Ang.) 1900 8 020 3 638 4 382 41,7
Russia without Finland
(R.Ang.)		 1897 151 102 74323 7677ß 120,3
Finland (R.G.): the cities Helsingfors, Abo, Tammerfors and Wiborg 1900 805 519 286 -
Finland (R.Ang.) 1900 581 345 236 -
Serbia (R.G.) 1900 441 218 223 19,1
Serbia (R.Ang.) 1900 379 180 199 16,4
Rumania (R.Ang.) 1899 7733 - - 129,8
Bulgaria (R.G.) 1904 187 117 70 5,6
Bulgaria (R.Ang.) 1904 339 175 164 10,2
Montenegro (R.Ang.)  1904 6 3 3 -
Turkey (R.Ang.) 1904 3 399 1 623 1 746 -
Greece (R.G.) 1905 191 128 63 7,8
Greece (R.Ang.) 1905 227 166 61 9,3
Italy (R.Ang.) 1901 10 745 - - 32,8
Spain (R.G.) 1900 2 218 1 608 610 11,9
Spain (R.Ang.) 1900 3 011 1 930 1 081 16,2
Portugal (R.Ang.) 1900 927 470 457 17,1
Switzerland (R.G.) 1900 134 599 61 628 72 971 4 061,8
Switzerland (R.Ang.) 1900 168 238 77 809 90 429 5 076,9
France (R.Ang.) 1901 86 684 35 244 51 440 237,1
Luxemburg (R.G.) 1900 14 637 7 950 6 687 8 187,9
Luxemburg (R. Ang.) 1900 14 931 8 169 6 762 6 312,2
Belgien (R.G.) 1900 40 963 19 225 21 738 612,0
Belgium (R.Ang.) 1900 53 408 25 054 23 354 797,9
Netherlands (R.Ang.) 1899 31 654 16 588 15 066 620,2
Denmark (R.G.) 1901 35 061 17 865 17 196 1 431,3
Schweden (R.Ang.) 1900 2 421 1 323 1 098 47,1
Norway (R.G.) 1900 2 787 1 700 1 087 124,9
Norway (R.Ang.) 1900 1 766 - - 79,5
England and Wales (R.G.) 1901 49 133 30 356 18 777 151,1
Scotland (R.G.) 1901 3 232 2 014 1 218 72,3
Ireland (R.G.) 1901 1 037 583 454 23,3
Canada (R.G.) 1901 27 302 - - 508,3
Canada (R.Ang.) 1901 6 486 - - 120,8
U.S.A. (R.G.) 1900 2 669 164 1 437 445 1 231 719 3 498,1
Cuba (R.Ang.) 1904 382 232 150 24,3
Porto Rico
(R.Ang.)		 1904 46 46 - -
Philippines (R.G.) 1903 368 - - -
Philippines (R.Ang.) 1904 202 175 27 2,6
Mexiko (R.Ang.) 1900 2 565 1 980 585 18,9
Brit. Honduras (R.G.) 1901 37 29 8 98,7
Haiti (R.Ang.) 1904 184 127 57 -
San Domingo (R.Ang.) 1904 45 27 18 -
St. Thomas (R.Ang.) 1904 15 8 7 -
Venezuela (R.Ang.) 1904 612 297 193 -
Suriname (R.G.) 1904 114 99 15 -
Suriname (R.Ang.) 1904 103 60 43 -
Brazil (R.G.) 1904 63 613 - - 443,7
Brazil (R.Ang.) 1904 7 133 - - -
Curaçao (R.G.) 1904 2 2 - -
Curaçao (R.Ang.) 1904 7 - - -
Uruguay (R.G.) 1904 854 802 52 87,3
Uruguay (R.Ang.) 1904 252 155 97 -
Paraguay (R.Ang. u.G.) 1904 1 350 - - -
Argentinien (R.Ang.) 1895 17 143 10 978 6 165 433,5
Chile (R.Ang) 1895 7 049 - - 259,9
Peru (R.Ang.) 1904 535 378 153 -
Ecuador (R.Ang.) 1904 134 87 47 -
Colombia (R.G.) 1905 203 - - -
Colombia (R.Ang.) 1905 345 226 119 -
Panama (R.G.) 1905 49 41 8 -
Panama (R.Ang.) 1905 56 45 11 -
Falkland Islands
(R.G.)		 1901 19 12 7 930,0
Egypt (R.Ang.) 1897 1 281 745 536 13,2
Algeria (R.Ang.) 1896 3 319 2 084 1 235 70,0
Sierra Leone (R.Ang.) 1901 64 63 1 83,5
Morocco (R.Ang.) 1904 184 103 81 3,7
Dahomey (R.G.) 1904 1 1 - -
Dahomey (R.Ang.) 1904 23 22 1 -
Abyssinia (R.G.) 1904 3 3 - -
Liberia (R.Ang.) 1904 40 - - 1,5
Mauritius (R.G.) 1901 21 20 1 5,7
Mauritius (R.Ang.) 1901 21 20 1 5,7
Sansibar (R.G.) 1904 33 28 5 16,5
Sansibar (R.Ang.) 1904 33 28 5 16,5
Spanish Colonies in Africa (R.Ang.) 1904 29 26 3 -
Portuguese Colonies in Africa (R.Ang.) 1904 248 174 65 -
Cape of Good Hope (R.G.) 1904 114 - - 4,7
Persia (R.Ang.) 1904 49 32 17 -
British India (R.G.) 1901 1 696 1 255 441 0,6
Dutch East Indies (R.G.) 1900 1 382 1 142 240 3,8
Federated Malay States (R.Ang.) 1901 21 12  9 3,1
Straits Settlements (R.G.) 1901 279 198 81 48,8
Siam (R.Ang.) 1904 153 130 23 3,1
Cochinchina (R.G.) 1904 73 62 11 -
Cochinchina (R.Ang.) 1904 44 40 4 -
China (R.Ang.) 1903 1 658 - - -
Korea (R.G.) 1904 28 21 7 0,5
Korea (R.Ang.) 1904 43 22 21 -
Japan (R.Ang.) 1898 603 - - 1,3
Japan (R.Ang.) 1903 (654) (475) (179) (1,3)
Australia (R.G.) 1901 42671 - - 520,7

Of the 3.5 million Germans living abroad, who were born in Germany, 2.7 million live in the U.S.A.

(1) according to Dr. Friedrich Zahn's lecture on the German Colonial
Congress 1905 "Verbreitung der Deutschen im Auslande." (Distribution of Germans abroad)





 
Source: Deutscher Kolonial-Atlas mit Jahrbuch (Atlas German Colonies with Yearbook), edited by the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft (German Colonial Society). Berlin 1906, p.2ff

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