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German ancestry

Germans
Deutsche
Total population
c. 100 – c. 150 million worldwide
Regions with significant populations
 Germany 65 million
 United States 50,764,352
 Brazil 12,000,000
 Canada 3,203,330
 Argentina 3,100,000
 South Africa 1,200,000
 France 1,000,000
 Australia 898,700
 Chile 500,000
 Russia 394,138
 Netherlands 368,512
 Italy 314,604
 Paraguay 290,000
 United Kingdom 273,654
  Switzerland 266,000
 Peru 240,000
 Austria 210,735
 Kazakhstan 178,409
 Poland 178,409
 Spain 138,917
 Mexico 140,000
 Hungary 131,951
 Israel 100,000
 Belgium 76,273
 Bolivia 70,000
 Sweden 49,359
 Uruguay 40,000
 Romania 36,000
 Ukraine 33,302
 Ecuador 33,000
 Namibia 30,000
 Norway 26,683
 Dominican Republic 25,000
 Czech Republic 18,772
 Greece 15,498
 Denmark 15,000
 Portugal 15,000
 China 14,446
 New Zealand 12,942
 Luxembourg 12,400
 Ireland 11,305
Languages
German: High German (Upper German, Central German), Low German (see German dialects)
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Protestantism
Irreligion
Related ethnic groups
other Germanic peoples

Germans (German: Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history. German is the shared mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans.

The English term Germans has historically referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages. Before the collapse of communism and the reunification of Germany in 1990, Germans constituted the largest divided nation in Europe by far. Ever since the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation within the Holy Roman Empire, German society has been characterized by a Catholic-Protestant divide.

Of approximately 100 million native speakers of German in the world, roughly 80 million consider themselves Germans. There are an additional 80 million people of German ancestry mainly in the United States, Brazil (mainly in the South Region of the country), Argentina, Canada, South Africa, the post-Soviet states (mainly in Russia and Kazakhstan), and France, each accounting for at least 1 million. Thus, the total number of Germans lies somewhere between 100 and more than 150 million, depending on the criteria applied (native speakers, single-ancestry ethnic Germans, partial German ancestry, etc.).


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