Population was the most fundamental condition for forming a market. The larger the population of a country or region, the greater the foundation and potential of that market.
In the past, traditional colonizers such as Britain and France had been able to swiftly use local populations to form dependent markets during colonial expansion. East Africa, however, cleansed the indigenous people wherever it occupied territory, naturally destroying the original markets as well.
Thus, though East Africa's overseas colonies appeared substantial in scale, their market value was far beyond comparison with the colonies of other countries.
However, this situation had improved in recent years, especially in East Africa's colonies in the Nanyang region, where the population had recovered the fastest.
This also meant that the world's third-largest German-speaking region would take shape in the Nanyang region in the future, surpassed only by Africa and Europe. In truth, the German-speaking population in the United States was not small, but the development of German there had been restricted. In recent years, the American government had vigorously promoted de-Germanization, with remarkable results. German could not possibly have much of a future in the United States.
At present, Africa was the world's largest gathering place for German-speaking people, even surpassing the German territories of Europe. The combined populations of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the two major European German-speaking powers, did not equal that of East Africa, let alone the fact that German speakers accounted for less than one-third of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's population.
Besides East Africa, a German-speaking country, the Kingdom of Southern Germany also had German as its official language. In the Belgian Congo colony and the Abyssinian Empire, German was likewise one of the official languages.
The global expansion of German likewise benefited the expansion of East Africa's overseas markets. In 1920, the