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    Durchschnittliche Bevölkerung, die nach Amerika ausgewandert ist (1500–1800)

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    1. doutrinasecreta on

      The Minas Gerais gold rush was so intense in the early 1700’s that the Portuguese government had to pass three distinct laws (in 1709, 1711 and 1720) heavily restricting immigration to Brazil.

      This contributed to the depopulation of Portugal and the establishment of Portuguese as the de facto language of Brazil.

    2. Tricky-Coffee5816 on

      Half of Canada is actually Portuguese. They hid this history from you.

    3. Microgolfoven_69 on

      Are these percentages meaningful though? Putting the total emigration over the average population? I guess it works as a comparison between countries but this map makes it look like 42% of Portugal emigrated to America which isn’t true.

    4. BroSchrednei on

      Im sure Germany would also have some percentage, since emigration to the Americas started really early there.

    5. clewbays on

      Fairly confident Ireland would have had similar total numbers to France with a far smaller population. Even ignoring US migration, you had considerable migration to the Caribbean in the 1600s over 25,000.

      If you include the United States it gets more complicated, due to the Ulster Scots but you’re still talking at minimum in the 10s of thousands. If you include Ulster Scots it’s close to half a million.

    6. General_Kangaroo1744 on

      I think it’s more to do with the time when mass migration started than how many went as the earlier in time the settlement happened, the larger that population will have grown in the colony country.

      It sounds insane, but almost ALL of the 2.7 – 3 million white South African Afrikaners today are descendants of just 1,500 – 2000 mainly Dutch, French Huguenots, Germans settlers whom all arrived before 1700. Due to rampant disease and warfare the population growth wasn’t fast either.

      Compare this to the 10 *million* Americans today are descendants of just *51* English Mayflower passengers whom survived to have children whom make up just 0.25% of the first English mass migration to America between 1620 – 1640.

      The English population growth in America can only be described as explosive with families having 10+ children with most surviving till adulthood (unlike England) and very low levels of mortality due to the spread out population preventing disease and huge farms. Can you imagine how many Americans are partially or mainly descended from just these first 20,000 Englishmen? It’s likely over 100 million.

      By 1800, there were already 2.5 – 3 million English in America out of a total population of 5.3 million. Most of these were natural born descendants from the first immigrant waves in the 1600’s and was already equivalent to the above modern day white Afrikaner population 226 years ago and would double every generation.

      The first to settle a country will be the dominant population as when new immigrants arrive they just add to the genetic pool that’s already present. It’s called founder bias.

    9. VikingHussar on

      Imagine if France had an emigration rate more similar to Spain or Britain. Granted, they’d have needed to colonize somewhere that wasn’t either a frozen wasteland (Canada) or a malaria-infested swamp (Louisiana), but had France even had the same rate of emigration as the Netherlands (2%), that’d have meant 370,000 French colonists heading to the New World and tens of millions of Francophones in the Americas today.

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