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Latin Americans

Latin Americans
Total population
(650,000,000
or more (in 2013))
Regions with significant populations
Latin America: 561,183,291
 Brazil 201,032,714
 Mexico 114,975,406
 Colombia 48,400,368
 Argentina 42,192,494
 Venezuela 31,775,371
 Peru 29,549,517
 Chile 17,067,369
 Ecuador 15,223,680
 Guatemala 14,099,032
 Cuba 11,075,244
 Bolivia 10,290,003
 Dominican Republic 10,088,598
 Haiti 9,801,664
 Honduras 8,296,693
 Paraguay 6,541,590
 El Salvador 6,090,646
 Nicaragua 5,727,707
 Costa Rica 4,636,340
 Puerto Rico 3,690,923
 Panama 3,510,045
 Uruguay 3,316,328
 United States +50,000,000
 Spain +1,700,000
 Canada 544,380
 Japan +345,000
 United Kingdom 186,500
 Portugal ~100,000
 Australia 93,795
Languages
Primarily Spanish and Portuguese.
Regionally Quechua, Mayan languages, Guaraní, Aymara, Nahuatl, French and others
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholic Christianity.
Other significant minorities.

Latin Americans (Spanish: latinoamericanos, Portuguese: latino-americanos) are the citizens of the Latin American countries and dependencies. Latin American countries are multi-ethnic, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Latin Americans don't take their nationality as an ethnicity, but identify themselves with both their nationality and their ancestral origins. Aside from the indigenous Amerindian (aka Native American) population, all Latin Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. Latin America has the largest diasporas of Spaniards, Portuguese, Black Africans, Italians, Lebanese, and Japanese in the world.

The specific ethnic and/or racial composition varies from country to country: many have a predominance of European-Amerindian, or Mestizo, population; in others, Amerindians are a majority; some are mostly inhabited by people of European ancestry; and others are primarily Mulatto. Various Black, Asian, and Zambo (mixed Black and Amerindian) minorities are also identified in most countries.White Latin Americans are the largest single group. Together with the people of part-European ancestry they combine for approximately 80% of the population, or even more.


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