Nijemci - narod germanske grane indoevropske porodice naroda nastanjen u današnjoj Njemačkoj , ali također i širom svijeta, najviše ih ima iseljenih u Sjedinjenim Državama , Kanadi , Rusiji (Povolški Nijemci ) i Poljskoj . Računa se da ih svih zajedno ima preko 100 miliona koji govore materinjim njemačkim jezikom . Među Nijemcima postoji više etničkih grupa koje se razlikuju po jeziku i običajima. Najpoznatiji su svakako Švabi (porijeklom od Sueba ili Sveva), Bavarci (porijekom od Bajuvara), Sasi (u Saskoj , porijeklom od Saksonaca ili Sasa) i vjerovatno još neki.
^ Nijemci i stranci sa imigrantskom pozadinom Arhivirano 4. 5. 2009. na Wayback Machine . 156 is the estimate which counts all people claiming ethnic German ancestry in the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, and elsewhere.
^ 66.42 million is the number of Germans without immigrant background, 75 million is the number of German citizens Germans and foreigners with an immigrant background Arhivirano 4. 5. 2009. na Wayback Machine
^ Deutsche Welle: 2005 German Census figures
^ "CIA World Factbook - Germany: People" . Arhivirano s originala , 11. 2. 2016. Pristupljeno 16. 5. 2011 .
^ 49.2 miliona German Americans po podacima iz 2005., u skladu sa {{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-reg=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201:535;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201PR:535;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201T:535;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201TPR:535&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201TPR&-ds_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_&-TABLE_NAMEX=&-ci_type=A&-redoLog=false&-charIterations=047&-geo_id=01000US&-format=&-_lang=en%7Cauthor2=United Arhivirano 21. 12. 2011. na Wayback Machine States Census Bureau|title=US demographic census|access-date=2. 8. 2007
^ 2001 Canadian Census Arhivirano 9. 4. 2013. na Wayback Machine gives 2,742,765 total respondents stating their ethnic origin as partly German, with 705,600 stating "single-ancestry", see List of Canadians by ethnicity .
^ "A Imigração Alemã no Brasil | Brasil | Deutsche Welle | 25.07.2004" . Arhivirano s originala , 15. 7. 2011. Pristupljeno 16. 5. 2011 .
^ France
^ Alsatians
^ a result of population transfer in the Soviet Union ; see ethnologue
^ The Australian Bureau of Statistics PDF (424 KB) reports 742,212 people of German ancestry in the 2001 Census . German is spoken by ca. 135,000 [1] , about 105,000 of them Germany-born, see Demographics of Australia
^ German Embassy in Chile.
^ "Arhivirana kopija" . Arhivirano s originala , 19. 7. 2011. Pristupljeno 16. 5. 2011 .CS1 održavanje: arhivirana kopija u naslovu (link )
^ South Tyrol in figures . Provincial Statistics Institute.
^ pogledati str. 5 Arhivirano 9. 10. 2018. na Wayback Machine , as of 2006
^ German born only; United Kingdom: Stock of foreign-born population by country of birth, 2001
^ INE(2006)