4.1 million Americans, excluding military, live outside the US in 160+ countries. An estimated 550,000 military and government personnel and dependents also live abroad, most in Europe and Asia. This is only the numbers that are "known". The US State Department estimates that there are really around 6.6 million. The reason that this is an estimate and not exact is because many Americans "fall off the radar". If an American living abroad stops paying their taxes, stops visiting the US, stops using embassy or consulate services they will not be OFFICIALLY counted anymore.
Unfortunately, the US Census does not count Americans living outside the country. To understand how many Americans live abroad, we have to add the numbers back into the census estimates.
Also, consider that the number of Americans living abroad 40 years ago was only 735,500 (see http://www.escapeartist.com/transatlanti… The US POPCLOCK (see source) estimates that there 298,675,051 people living in the US. If the estimate of 6.6 million is to be believed, that's 2.16% of all Americans living outside the USA today. If the US population in 1966 is estimated to be 196,560,338, then that would have meant that only 0.37% of Americans were living outside the US 40 years ago. That's a growth of over 579 times the original percentage. In whole numbers that's 897 times the number of Americans abroad in 1966.



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