Christian Hogan

Latin America
Ethnic groups
The population of Latin America is a composite of
ancestries, ethnic groups, and races in the world. The
composition varies from country to country. Most Latin
American countries have varying sizes of Asian action.
Europeans are the largest single group, and they and
people of part European ancestry combine for 80% of the
population. In addition to the following groups, Latin
America also has millions of tri-racial people of African,
Amerindian, and European. Most are found in Colombia,
Venezuela, and Brazil, with a much smaller presence in a
number of other countries. The concept of race and
ethnicity in Latin America varies greatly from country to
country, and in many places, when a Latin America
speaks of race, they are referring to what an Anglo-
American would call nationality.

Ethnic distribution in Latin America 2005 (No Race)[28]

Country Population Amerindians Whites Mestizos Mulattos Blacks Zambo Asians

Indian-mestizos 58,022.000 46.9% 10.4% 35.4% 5.7% 1.1% 0.0% 0.5%

 Ecuador 12,646.000 39.0% 9.9% 41.0% 5.0% 5.0% 0.0% 0.1%

 Guatemala 11,385.000 53.0% 4.0% 42.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.8%

  Peru 25,662.000 45.5% 12.0% 32.0% 9.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8%

 Bolivia 9,775,246 55.0% 15.0% 28.0% 2.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Afro-mestizos 69,131.000 2.4% 18.5% 46.9% 27.1% 3.6% 0.6% 0.9%

 Panama 2,856.000 8.0% 10.0% 32.0% 27.0% 5.0% 14.0% 4.0%

 Venezuela 24,170.000 1.0% 20.0% 65.0% 10.0% 3.0% 0.9% 0.1%

Afro-criollos 193,893.000 0.4% 51.6% 0.0% 40.8% 6.7% 0.1% 0.4%

 Cuba 11,199.000 0.0% 37.0% 0.0% 51.0% 11.0% 0.0% 1.0%

 Dominican 8,373.000 0.0% 14.6% 0.0% 75.0% 7.7% 2.3% 0.4%

Republic

Mestizos 122,134.000 12.5% 13.7% 72.4% 0.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.5%

 El Salvador 6,278.000 8.0% 1.0% 91.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

 Colombia[29] 42,105.000 1.9% 23.5% 60.1% 11.0% 3.2% 0.1% 0.0%

 Honduras 6,417.000 7.7% 1.0% 85.6% 1.7% 0.0% 3.3% 0.7%

 Mexico 98,872.000 13.0% 17.0% 70.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

 Nicaragua 5,071.000 6.9% 14.0% 78.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.2%

 Paraguay 5,496.000 1.5% 20.0% 74.5% 3.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%

Whites 59,604.000 2.7% 76.7% 18.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 1.8%

  Argentina 39,632.760 1.0% 85.0% 11.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.9%

 Chile 16,800.000 3.2% 52.7% 44.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

 Brazil 170,406.000 0.4% 53.8% 0.0% 39.1% 6.2% 0.0%

 Puerto Rico 3,965.000 0.0% 74.8% 0.0% 10.0% 15.0% 0.0% 0.2%

 Costa Rica 4,024.000 0.8% 82.0% 15.0% 0.0% 0% 2.0% 0.2%

 Uruguay 3,337.000 0.0% 88.0% 8.0% 4.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Total 502,784.000 9.2% 36.1% 30.3% 20.3% 3.2% 0.2% 0.7%

 Culture

Latin American culture is a mixture of many

cultural expressions worldwide. It is the product
of many diverse influences. The Maya,
the Aztecs and the Incas are examples of these.
Western civilization, in particular the culture of
Europe, was brought mainly by the colonial
powers—the Spanish, Portuguese and French—
between the 16th and 19th centuries. The most
enduring European colonial influence is language
and Roman Catholicism. More recently, additional
cultural influences came from the United
States and Europe during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, due to the growing influence
of the former on the world stage and immigration
from the later. The influence of the United States
is particularly strong in northern Latin America,
especially Puerto Rico, which is a United States
territory. In addition, the United States held the
twenty-mile-long Panama Canal Zone in Panama
from 1903 (the Panama Canal opened to
transoceanic freight traffic in 1914) to 1999, when
the Torrijos-Carter Treaties restored Panamanian
control of the Canal Zone.South
America experienced waves of immigration of
Europeans, especially Italians and Germans. With
the end of colonialism, French culture was also
able to exert a direct influence in Latin America,
especially in the realms of high
culture, science and medicine. African cultures,
whose presence derives from a long history
of New World slavery. Peoples of African children
have influenced the Ethnos capes of Latin
America and the Caribbean. This is apparent for
instance in religion, especially in countries such
as Belize, Brazil, Honduras, Puerto Rico,
Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Haiti, Costa Rica,
Dominican Republic, and Cuba.

Population-560 million

Languages-French, Spanish,& Portuguese