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'''Emigrasi dari Eropa''' dimulai secara besar-besaran selama [[imperium kolonial]] Eropa ke-17 sampai abad ke-19 dan berlanjut hingga hari ini. Hal ini menyangkut terutama [[Kekaisaran Spanyol]] pada abad 16 hingga ke-17 (perluasan Hispanosphere), [[Kerajaan Inggris]] pada abad 18 sampai abad ke-19 (perluasan Anglosphere), [[Kekaisaran Portugis]] dan [[Kekaisaran Rusia]] pada abad ke-19 (ekspansi ke [[Asia Tengah]] dan Timur Jauh Rusia).
Dari 1815-1932, 60 juta orang meninggalkan Eropa (dengan banyak yang kembali pulang), terutama untuk "daerah pemukiman Eropa," di [[Amerika Utara]] dan Selatan (terutama ke [[Amerika Serikat]], [[Kanada]], [[Argentina]] dan [[Brasil]]), [[Australia]], [[Selandia Baru]] dan . [[Siberia]]<ref name="European Migration"/> populasi ini juga dikalikan dengan cepat di habitat baru mereka; jauh melebihi daripada populasi [[Afrika]] dan [[Asia]]. Akibatnya, menjelang [[Perang Dunia Pertama]], 38% dari total populasi dunia adalah keturunan Eropa. <ref name="European Migration">{{cite web|title=European Migration and Imperialism|publisher= |accessdate=14 September 2013|author= |url=http://historydoctor.net/Advanced%20Placement%20European%20History/Notes/european_migration_and_imperiali.htm|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20101122193228/http://historydoctor.net/Advanced%20Placement%20European%20History/Notes/european_migration_and_imperiali.htm|archivedate=22 November 2010|quote=The population of Europe entered its third and decisive stage in the early eighteenth century. Birthrates declined, but death rates also declined as the standard of living and advances in medical science provided for longer life spans. The population of Europe including Russia more than doubled from 188 million in 1800 to 432 million in 1900. From 1815 through 1932, sixty million people left Europe, primarily to "areas of European settlement," in North and South America, Australia, New Zealand and Siberia. These populations also multiplied rapidly in their new habitat; much more so than the populations of Africa and Asia. As a result, on the eve of World War One (1914), 38 percent of the world’s total population was of European ancestry. This growth in population provided further impetus for European expansion, and became the driving force behind emigration. Rising populations put pressure on land, and land hunger and led to "land hunger." Millions of people went abroad in search of work or economic opportunity. The Irish, who left for America during the great Potato famine, were an extreme but not unique example. Ultimately, one third of all European migrants came from the British Isles between 1840 and 1920. Italians also migrated in large numbers because of poor economic conditions in their home country. German migration also was steady until industrial conditions in Germany improved when the wave of migration slowed. Less than one half of all migrants went to the United States, although it absorbed the largest number of European migrants. Others went to Asiatic Russia, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.}}</ref>
Di Asia, populasi Eropa yang diturunkan (khusus Rusia) mendominasi di [[Asia Utara]], yang merupakan bagian dari [[Federasi Rusia]]. Afrika tidak memiliki negara dengan mayoritas keturunan Eropa, tapi ada minoritas yang signifikan di [[Afrika Selatan]] dan [[Namibia]].
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