Laitin Americans
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Laitin Americans (Spaingie: latinoamericano, Portuguese: latino-americano) are the citizens o the Laitin American kintras an dependencies. Laitin American kintras are multi-ethnic, hame tae fowk o different ethnic an naitional backgrunds. As a result, some Latin Americans daena tak thair naitionality as an ethnicity, but identifee thairsels wi baith thair naitionality an thair ancestral oreegins.[32] Aside frae the indigenous Amerindian (aka Native American) population, aw Laitin Americans or thair ancestors immigratit athin the past five centuries.
Tot population | |
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(562,000,000 or more (in 2010)[1]) | |
Regions wi signeeficant populations | |
Laitin Americae: 561,183,291[2] | |
Brazil | 199,321,413[3] |
Mexico | 114,975,406[4] |
Colombie | 45,239,079[5] |
Argentinae | 42,192,494[6] |
Peru | 29,549,517[7] |
Venezuela | 28,047,938[8] |
Chile | 17,067,369[9] |
Ecuador | 15,223,680[10] |
Guatemala | 14,099,032[11] |
Cuba | 11,075,244[12] |
Bolivie | 10,290,003[13] |
Dominican Republic | 10,088,598[14] |
Haiti | 9,801,664[15] |
Honduras | 8,296,693[16] |
Paraguay | 6,541,590[17] |
El Salvador | 6,090,646[18] |
Nicaragua | 5,727,707[19] |
Costa Rica | 4,636,340[20] |
Puerto Rico | 3,690,923[21] |
Panama | 3,510,045[22] |
Uruguay | 3,316,328[23] |
Unitit States | +50,000,000[24][25] |
Spain | +1,700,000[26] |
Japan | +345.000[27] |
Canadae | 304,245[28] |
Unitit Kinrick | 186,500[29] |
Portugal | ~100,000[30] |
Australie | 93,795[31] |
Leids | |
Primarily Spaingie an Portuguese. Regionally Quechua, Mayan leids, GuaranÃ, Aymara, French, Nahuatl an ithers | |
Releegion | |
Mostly Roman Catholic. Ither significant minorities. |
The specific ethnic an/or racial composition varies frae kintra tae kintra: mony hae a predominance o European-Amerindian, or Mestizo, population; in ithers, Amerindians are a majority; some are maistly inhabitit bi fowk o European ancestry; an ithers are primarily Mulatto.[33] Various Black, Asie, an Zambo (mixed Black an Amerindian) minorities are identifee'd in maist kintras an aw.[33] White Laitin Americans are the lairgest single group.[32] Thegither wi the fowk o pairt-European ancestry thay combine for approximately 80% o the population,[34] or even mair.[32]
Laitin Americans an thair stryndants can be foond amaist elsewhaur in the warld, pairticularly in densely populatit urban auries. The maist important migratory destiny for Laitin Americans are the Unitit States, Wastren Europe, Canadae an Australie.