Syrian diaspora

Syrian diaspora refers to Syrian migrants and their descendants who, whether by choice or coercion, emigrated from Syria and now reside in other countries as either immigrants or refugees of the Syrian Civil War.

Syrian diaspora
Total population
From 8 to possibly 15 million[1]
Languages
Syrian Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, German, Swedish, Finnish, Turkish
Religion
Islam, Christianity, Druze, Syrian Jews
Syrian baklava maker in Little Syria in 1916.
Syrian immigrant children on Washington Street in Lower Manhattan in 1916.

The number of Syrians outside Syria are estimated to be from 8 to possibly 13 million, nearly half of the country's population.[2]:1 The UNHCR reports that 4.9 million global refugees in 2015 were Syrian nationals.[3] Under the current Syrian nationality law, diaspora Syrians do not have an automatic right of return to Syria and under the controversial 2018 "Absentees law" the Assad government confiscated property of millions of Syrians.[4][5]

Syrian populations in the diaspora
Country Estimate Upper Estimate Region Country article in English Wikipedia
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 Brazil 1,000,000 according to a research conducted by IBGE in 2008, covering only the states of Amazonas, Paraíba, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Mato Grosso and Distrito Federal, 0.9% of caucasoid Brazilian respondents said they had family origins in the Middle East[6] 4,000,000 (Brazilian government)[7] Latin America Syrian Brazilian
 Turkey 3,611,834 registered (December 2018)[8] Middle East Syrians in Turkey
 Lebanon 950,334 registered (December 2018)[9] Middle East Syrians in Lebanon
 Jordan 671,148 registered (December 2018)[10] 1,400,000 estimated (ِAugust 2015)[11] Middle East Syrians in Jordan
 Germany 789.465 (People holding Syrian citizenship as of 31.12.2019)[12] European Union Syrians in Germany
 Argentina 500,000 1,000,000 Latin America Syrian Argentine
 Saudi Arabia 500,000-2,500,000[13][14] Middle East Syrians in Saudi Arabia
 Iraq 252,772 estimated (December 2018)[15] Middle East
 Sudan 250,000 estimated (2017)[16] Africa
 United Arab Emirates >250,000 estimated (2016)[17][18] Middle East Syrians in the United Arab Emirates
 Sweden 191,530 (2019)[19][20][21][22][23] European Union Syrians in Sweden
 United States 187,331 (by ancestry, 2016 U.S Census Bureau) [24] North America Syrian American
 Egypt 132,553 estimated (December 2018)[25] North Africa and Middle East
 Kuwait 120,000 estimated (2015)[26] Middle East Syrians in Kuwait
 Greece 88,204 (2015)[27] European Union Syrians in Greece
 Canada 77,050 (by ancestry, 2016 Census)[28] North America Syrian Canadian
 Austria 18,000 (2015)[29][30] European Union Syrians in Austria
 Venezuela 15,632 (Syrian-born resident, 2015)[31] 1,000,000 Venezuelans of Syrian descent[32][33][34][35] Latin America Syrian Venezuelan
 Australia 13,517 (by ancestry, 2011)[36] Oceania Syrian Australians
 Algeria 10,000[37] (Jan 2013) 25,000 estimated[37] (Jan 2013) North Africa
 Finland 6,000 (2015)[38] European Union Syrians in Finland

See also

References
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