White Latin Americans
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White Latin Americans or European Latin Americans (sometimes Euro-Latinos[23][24]) are Latin Americans of European descent.[25]
Eurolatinoamericanos | |
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Total population | |
191.5 million – 220.6 million[1][2] 40.0% of Latin American population
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Regions with significant populations | |
Brazil | 88M[3] |
Mexico | 18M–59M (52M)[4][5][6] |
Argentina | 30M–38M (34M)[2][7] |
Colombia | 8.4M–13M (10.7M)[2][8] |
Chile | 12M[2] |
Venezuela | 4.1M–13M (8.55M)[2][9][10] |
Peru | 7.175M[11] |
Cuba | 4.1M–7.16M (5.63M)[2][12] |
Costa Rica | 3.3M[2] |
Uruguay | 2.9M[13] |
Paraguay | 1.1M–2.1M (1.6M)[14] |
Dominican Republic | 1.2M–1.6M (1.4M)[2][15] |
Ecuador | 1.3M[2] |
Bolivia | 1.2M[2] |
El Salvador | 0.812M[16] |
Nicaragua | 0.71M[2][17] |
Puerto Rico | 0.56M[18] |
Guatemala | 0.455M[2] |
Panama | 0.366M[19] |
Honduras | 0.09M[20] |
Languages | |
Major languages Spanish and Portuguese Minor languages Italian, French, English, German, Dutch, and other languages[21] | |
Religion | |
Christianity (mainly Roman Catholicism, with minority Protestantism),[22] Minority: Judaism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Mestizos, Spaniards, Portuguese, French, Italians, Romanians, British, Irish, Germans, Danes, Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians, Swedes, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Croats, Swiss, Hungarians, Greeks, Jews, Arabs, Armenians |
Direct descendants of European settlers who arrived in the Americas during the colonial and post-colonial periods can be found throughout Latin America. Most immigrants who settled the region for the past five centuries were Spanish and Portuguese; after independence, the most numerous non-Iberian immigrants were French, Italians, and Germans, followed by other Europeans as well as West Asians (such as Levantine Arabs and Armenians).[26][27][28]
Composing from 33% of the population as of 2010[update], according to some sources,[1][2][29] White Latin Americans constitute the second largest racial-ethnic group after mestizo people (Amerindian and European mixed) in the region. Latin American countries have often tolerated interracial marriage since the beginning of the colonial period.[30][31] White (Spanish: blanco or güero; Portuguese: branco) is the self-identification of many Latin Americans in some national censuses. According to a survey conducted by Cohesión Social in Latin America, conducted on a sample of 10,000 people from seven countries of the region, 34% of those interviewed identified themselves as white.[32]