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WEDNESDAY, JUN 11, 2014
As the World Cup kicks off with 32 teams competing for the championship, Social Explorer digs into the data field. While hundreds of millions of soccer ("football") fans watch the tournament over the next month, we will examine the demographics of those living in the US identifying with your favorite (and rival) team nations using detailed data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (2008-12).
Find out how many people of each team's ancestry live in the US by the numbers and through interactive maps. We'll start with an overview of the 32 contenders, organized by the tournament groups. (For more on the games, check out the official FIFA World Cup website.)
Group A:
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Group B:
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Group C:
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Group D:
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Group E:
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Group F:
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Group G:
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Group H:
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Stay tuned to Social Explorer for more data highlights as the World Cup tournament continues.
*This ancestry group for this nation was not available in the regular published Census Bureau data. This number was calculated using the PUMS (Public Use Micro Data Sample), which is a large sample of the American Community Survey, and allows tabulation of this county.
**Data for Ivory Coast Ancestry was not revealed in the PUMS data.
^Because this ancestry group is small and not available in Census Bureau data, we mapped the related region (Other Subsaharan African, Yugoslavian, and Other Arab).
Brazil
Croatia
Mexico
Cameroon
Spain
Netherlands
Chile
Australia
Colombia
Greece
Ivory Coast
Japan
Uruguay
Costa Rica
England
Italy
Switzerland 
Ecuador
France
Honduras
Argentina
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Iran
Nigeria
Germany
Portugal 
Ghana
USA
Belgium
Algeria
Russia
Korean Republic