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Total population | |||||||||||||||||
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( 15,586,454 51.6% of the Venezuelan population) |
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Entire country. | |||||||||||||||||
Languages | |||||||||||||||||
Spanish Venezuelan small minorities speak Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, English and French. |
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Religion | |||||||||||||||||
Roman Catholics | |||||||||||||||||
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Other Venezuelans, Mestizos, White Venezuelan, Afro-Venezuelan, Amerindian, Spaniards, Pardos, Mestizo Colombian, Latin Americans. |
Mestizo Venezuelans are Venezuelan people who are the result of a mixture of European, Amerindian and African ancestry.
Mestizos in Venezuela amount to 51.6% of the country's population.
According to an autosomal DNA genetic study conducted in 2008 by the University of Brasília (UNB), the composition of Venezuela's gene pool is 60.60% of European contribution, 23% of indigenous contribution, and 16.30% of African contribution.