Practice question · Estimate
Roughly how many million Europeans emigrated between 1850 and 1914?
Estimate on a scale from 0 to 100 million (100).
Hints
- It was tens of millions, not hundreds.
- The standard estimate is around 60 million.
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60 (answers within ±10 count)
Why
About 60 million, one of the largest voluntary migrations in history, driven by the wage gap between old-world land scarcity and new-world land abundance.
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