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The first large-scale census in the German Empire took place in 1895 (see German census of 1895). The last pre-war census was held on 1 December 1910. The 1915 census was canceled, but two war censuses were held on 5 December 1916 and 1917 to organize the sharing of food.
Between 1944 and 1950, roughly 12 million ethnic Germans had fled or were expelled from east-central Europe. From 1951 to 1982 an additional 1.1 million persons of German ancestry emigrated from East-Central Europe to Germany. [20]
In the 1940 US census, some 1,237,000 persons identified as being of German birth; 5 million persons had both parents born in Germany; and 6 million persons had at least one parent born in Germany. [26] German immigrants had not been prohibited from becoming naturalized United States citizens and many did so.
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁɪˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. According to the United States Census Bureau 's figures from 2022, German Americans make up roughly 41 million people in the US, which is approximately 12% of the population. [ 7 ]
The Soviet-German population grew despite deportations and forced labor during the war; in the 1939 Soviet census the German population was 1.427 million. By 1959 it had increased to 1.619 million. [188] The calculations of the West German researcher Gerhard Reichling do not agree to the figures from the Soviet archives.
According to the United States Ancestry Census of 2009, there were 50,764,352 people of German descent in the U.S. [3] People of German ancestry form an important minority group in several countries, including Canada (roughly 10% of the population), Argentina (roughly 8% of the population), Brazil (roughly 3% of the population), [4] Australia ...
In Peru the official 2017 census, 5.9% or (1.3 mil) 1,336,931 people 12 years of age and above self-identified their ancestors as White or of European descent. [102]: 214 This was the first time a question on race or ancestors had been asked since the 1940 census. [103] There were 619,402 (5.5%) males and 747,528 (6.3%) females.
The 1940 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 132,164,569, an increase of 7.6 percent over the 1930 population of 122,775,046 people. The census date of record was April 1, 1940.