
Estonians in Toronto, Canada celebrating 100th Independence Day in 2018. Photo: Maimu Mölder
Countries that took in most of the Estonian refugees after the World War II fair somewhat lower. There are 4,803 (4%) Estonian citizens in the USA, 3,054 (2.5%) in Canada and 2,996 (2.5%) in Australia.
According to Enel Pungas, Head of the Population Facts Department of the Ministry of the Interior, these figures correspond to the number of people who have applied for Estonian identity documents abroad and who have indicated an address outside of Estonia as their permanent residence.
There are no reliable global statistics about people who identify themselves as Estonian. According to the 2016 Census of Canada, 24,530 people of Estonian origin lived in Canada, most of them in Ontario (15,075 or 61.5%), British Columbia (4,840 or 19.7%) and Alberta (2,720 or 11.1%).
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