Latin Americans

For the pan-ethnic demographic group in the United States, see Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Latin Americans
Total population
680,000,000
or more (in 2021)[1][2][3]
Regions with significant populations
Latin America
628,000,000[1][2]
 Brazil214,326,223
 Mexico126,705,138
 Colombia51,516,562
 Argentina45,276,780
 Peru33,715,471
 Venezuela28,199,867
 Chile19,493,184
 Guatemala17,608,483
 Ecuador17,797,737
 Bolivia12,079,472
 Haiti11,447,569
 Cuba11,256,372
 Dominican Republic11,117,873
 Honduras10,278,345
 Nicaragua6,850,540
 Paraguay6,703,799
 El Salvador6,314,167
 Costa Rica5,153,957
 Panama4,351,267
 Uruguay3,426,260
 Puerto Rico3,256,028
 Guadeloupe396,051
 Martinique368,796
 French Guiana297,449
 United States+62,000,000[4][5]
 Spain+1,700,000[6]
 France1,333,000[7][8]
 Canada+1,000,000[9]
 Italy354,180[10]
 Japan+345,000[11]
 Germany206,094[12]
 United Kingdom186,500[13]
 Saint Lucia179,651
 Portugal~100,000[14]
 Australia93,795[15]
 Sweden88,175[16]
 Dominica72,412
Languages
Primarily Spanish and Portuguese
Regionally Haitian Creole, Antillean Creole French, Quechua, Mayan languages, Guaraní, French, Aymara, Nahuatl and others
Religion
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Latin Americans (Spanish: Latinoamericanos; Portuguese: Latino-americanos; French: Latino-américains) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America).

Latin American countries and their diasporas are multi-ethnic and multi-racial. Latin Americans are a pan-ethnicity consisting of people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Latin Americans do not take their nationality as an ethnicity, but identify themselves with a combination of their nationality, ethnicity and their ancestral origins.[18] In addition to the indigenous population, Latin Americans include people with Old World ancestors who arrived since 1492. Latin America has the largest diasporas of Spaniards, Portuguese, Africans, Italians, Lebanese and Japanese in the world.[19][20][21] The region also has large German (second largest after the United States),[22] French, Palestinian (largest outside the Arab states),[23] Chinese and Jewish diasporas.

The specific ethnic and/or racial composition varies from country to country and diaspora community to diaspora community: many have a predominance of mixed indigenous and European descent or mestizo, population; in others, native Americans are a majority; some are mostly inhabited by people of European ancestry; others are primarily mulatto.[18][24] The largest single group are white Latin Americans.[18] Together with the people of part European ancestry, they combine for almost the totality of the population.[18]

Latin Americans and their descendants can be found almost everywhere in the world, particularly in densely populated urban areas. The most important migratory destinations for Latin Americans are found in the United States, Spain, France, Canada, Italy and Japan.

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  3. ^ Based on recent estimates, as of 2010. Sources by country: Australia Australian Bureau of Statistics 20680-Ancestry (full classification list) by Sex - Australia; Canada 2006 census "Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada Highlight Tables, 2006 Census". Statistics Canada. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2008-05-10.; Sweden [1] Portugal POPULAÇÃO ESTRANGEIRA EM TERRITÓRIO NACIONAL, SERVIÇODE ESTRANGEIROS E FRONTEIRAS 2008; Spain INE, Revisión del Padrón municipal 2007. Datos a nivel nacional, comunidad autónoma y provincia. (in Spanish); INE, Notas de Prensa 2008 (in Spanish); USA (Self-identified ethnicity rather than birthplace) "Detailed Hispanic Origin: 2007" (PDF). Pew Hispanic Center. Retrieved 2009-04-13.; "United States - Selected Population Profile in the United States (Brazilian (360-364))". 2008 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
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  6. ^ Foreign population in Spain (2009), Spanish National Statistics Institute press report. June 3, 2009. (Spanish)
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  10. ^ "E' latinoamericano il 7,7% della popolazione straniera in Italia. In testa il Perù | Ufficio Pastorale Migranti - Arcidiocesi di Torino".
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  12. ^ "Alemania - Emigrantes totales". Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  13. ^ "No Longer Invisible: The Latin American community in London" (PDF). Trust for London. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  14. ^ POPULAÇÃO ESTRANGEIRA EM TERRITÓRIO NACIONAL, SERVIÇO DE ESTRANGEIROS E FRONTEIRAS 2008;
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  16. ^ "Population by country of birth, age and sex. Year 2000 - 2020".
  17. ^ "Religion in Latin America". 13 November 2014.
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  19. ^ Pozzetta, George E., Bruno Ramirez and Robert F. Harney. The Italian Diaspora: Migration across the Globe. Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1992.
  20. ^ King, Russell (1978-01-01). "Report: The Italian Diaspora". Area. 10 (5): 386. JSTOR 20001401.
  21. ^ "Fact Sheet 3. Brazil - the Country and its People" (PDF). Embassy of Brazil in London - Schools' Pack, Brazil 2009. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 December 2011.
  22. ^ Wilhelm Bleek (2003). "Auslandsdeutsche" [Germans abroad] (in German). German Federal Agency for Civic Education. Archived from the original on 2011-03-10.
  23. ^ Baeza, Cecilia (1 February 2014). "Palestinians in Latin America: Between Assimilation and Long-Distance Nationalism". Journal of Palestine Studies. 43 (2): 59–72. doi:10.1525/jps.2014.43.2.59. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
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