Afro-European

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An Afro-European, Afropean or Black European refers to people of African ancestry or Black racial, cultural and social heritage raised in any European country. It also refers to Europeans who trace their ancestry to Africa or Africans who emigrated or were transported to any European nation, especially to France, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Portugal, & Sweden. There are reported to be 12.5 million people of African descent living in Europe.

The largest populations of people of African ancestry living in Europe are:

France (including overseas depts.): 3,000,000 - 5,000,000 estimate by the Conseil Représentatif des Associations Noires (ethnicity statistics in France are banned, 1/4 of the Afro-French people are from the smaller islands of the Caribbean, which they were french possessions)

United Kingdom: 1,668,400 (Half of them are from the Caribbean or from Afro-Caribbean background or origin)

Netherlands: 300,000 (mainly Surinamese, but also people from the Netherlands Antilles and Africa)

Germany: 300,000 (150,000 are German-born africans and the rest are African-born citizens)

Portugal: 100,000

Sweden: 77,500

There are also people of African descent living in Spain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland && Austria.

[edit] See also

• White African
• Afro-Germans
• British African-Caribbean community
• Black British
• British Somalis
• Black people in Ireland
• African Italians
• Pieds noirs
• Black American
• Black Canadian