White Zimbabweans

White Zimbabweans
Regions with significant populations
 Zimbabwe 24,888 (2022 census)[1]
0.16% of the population
 South Africa64,261 (2002)[2]
 Australia
 New Zealand
12,086 (2006)[note 1]
Languages
English (majority), Afrikaans, Greek, Portuguese, Italian,[4] others (minority)
Religion
Christianity[5] and Judaism[6]
Related ethnic groups
White South Africans, White Namibians, Afrikaners, Coloureds, other White Africans, Jews in Africa[citation needed]
Historical population
YearPop.±%
18911,500—    
18955,000+233.3%
190012,000+140.0%
190412,596+5.0%
191123,606+87.4%
191428,000+18.6%
192032,620+16.5%
192439,174+20.1%
193047,910+22.3%
193555,419+15.7%
194065,000+17.3%
194582,000+26.2%
1950125,000+52.4%
1953157,000+25.6%
1960218,000+38.9%
1965208,000−4.6%
1970237,000+13.9%
1975300,000+26.6%
1979242,000−19.3%
1985100,000−58.7%
199080,000−20.0%
199570,000−12.5%
200246,743−33.2%
201228,732−38.5%
201716,998−40.8%
202224,888+46.4%

White Zimbabweans (formerly White Rhodesians) are a Southern African people of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, these people of European ethnic origin are mostly English-speaking descendants of British settlers. A small minority are either Afrikaans-speaking descendants of Afrikaners from South Africa or those descended from Greek, Portuguese, Italian, and Jewish immigrants.[2] They represent 0.16% of the Zimbabwean population according to the 2022 census.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Zimbabwe 2022 Population and Housing Census Report, vol. 2" (PDF). ZimStat. Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency. 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  2. ^ a b Crush, Jonathan. Zimbabwe's Exodus: Crisis, Migration, Survival. pp. 5, 25.
  3. ^ a b David Lucas; Monica Jamali; Barbara Edgar (2011). "Zimbabwe's Exodus to Australia" (PDF). 34th AFSAAP Conference, The Australian National University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 January 2015.
  4. ^ Salawu, Abiodun; Molale, Tshepang Bright; Uribe-Jongbloed, Enrique; Ullah, Mohammad Sahid (23 November 2022). Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-6669-1202-9.
  5. ^ Togarasei, Lovemore (13 July 2018). Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-78565-3.
  6. ^ "Rhodesian Jews – A Brief History". Zimbabwe Jewish Community. Retrieved 5 June 2025.


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