Latin Americans#Language

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Latin America ({{langx|es|América Latina}} or Latinoamérica; {{langx|pt|América Latina}}) is the region of the Americas where Romance languages (i.e., those derived from Latin)—particularly Spanish and Portuguese—are primarily spoken.{{cite book |title=Latin America at the End of Politics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qBCVB3mxCK8C&q=%22latin+america+at+the+end+of+politics%22&pg=PP1|last=Colburn |first=Forrest D |year=2002 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=0-691-09181-1}}"Latin America."The New Oxford Dictionary of English. Pearsall, J., ed. 2001. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; p. 1040: "The parts of the American continent where Spanish or Portuguese is the main national language (i.e.Mexico and, in effect, the whole of Central and South America including many of the Caribbean islands)."''

It includes 20 countries or territories: Mexico in North America; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in Central America; Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay in South America; and Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean—in summary, Hispanic America plus Brazil. Canada and the United States, despite having sizeable Romance-speaking communities, are almost never included in the definition, primarily for being predominantly English-speaking Anglosphere countries. The ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), where the primary language is Papiamento, a Portuguese Creole, may or may not be considered part of Latin America.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300471435_Language_and_education_in_Aruba_Bonaire_and_Curacao

Latin America, therefore, can be defined as all those parts of the Americas that were once part of the Spanish or Portuguese colonial empires,{{cite book | last = Rangel | first = Carlos | title = The Latin Americans: Their Love-Hate Relationship with the United States | publisher = Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | year = 1977 | location = New York |pages = 3–5 | isbn = 0-15-148795-2 }} {{cite book | last = Skidmore | first = Thomas E. |author2=Peter H. Smith | title = Modern Latin America | url = https://archive.org/details/modernlatinameri0006skid | url-access = registration | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2005 | edition = 6 | location = Oxford and New York |pages = [https://archive.org/details/modernlatinameri0006skid/page/1 1–10]| isbn = 0-19-517013-X }} namely Spanish America and Colonial Brazil.

{{main|Race and ethnicity in Latin America}}

File:Wititis.jpg, Peru. Indigenous people make up most of the population in Bolivia and Guatemala, and a quarter in Peru.]]

File:La Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco y su Director Titular Marco Parisotto.jpg. Mestizos comprise the majority of Mexicans.]]

File:XXXIV Fiesta Nacional del Inmigrante - desfile - colectividad italiana 2.JPG youths in Oberá. Over 60% of Argentina's population has some degree of Italian ancestry.{{cite book |title= Britain and the Making of Argentina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXNgInLwwIoC&pg=PA101 |page=101 |author=Gordon A. Bridger |year=2013 | publisher=WIT Press |isbn = 9781845646844|quote=Some 86% identify themselves as being of European descent, of whom 60% would claim Italian links}}{{cite web|url=http://infouniversidades.siu.edu.ar/noticia.php?titulo=historias_de_inmigrantes_italianos_en_argentina&id=1432#.U2cKkYHa70s |title=Historias de inmigrantes italianos en Argentina |date=14 November 2011 |author =Departamento de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad Nacional de La Matanza |publisher=infouniversidades.siu.edu.ar |language=es |quote=Se estima que en la actualidad, el 90% de la población argentina tiene alguna ascendencia europea y que al menos 25 millones están relacionados con algún inmigrante de Italia.}}]]

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File:Japanese Brazilian Miko Curitiba Paraná.jpg, one of over a million Japanese Brazilians.]]

File:Tapati 3351a.jpg dancers from Easter Island, Chile. The Rapa Nui are a Polynesian people.]]

The population of Latin America comprises a variety of ancestries, ethnic groups and races, making the region one of the most diverse in the world. The specific composition varies from country to country: many have a predominance of mixed European and Amerindian, or mestizo, population; in others, Amerindians are a majority; some are dominated by inhabitants of European ancestry; and some countries' populations are primarily mulatto. White Latin Americans are the largest single group, accounting for more than one-third of the population. Black, Asian, and zambo (mixed black and Amerindian) minorities are also identified regularly.{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2075.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613003008/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2075.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 13, 2007|title= CIA — The World Factbook -- Field Listing — Ethnic groups |access-date=2008-02-20}}

• Mestizos: Intermixing between Europeans and Amerindians began early in the colonial period and was extensive. The resulting people, known as mestizos, make up the majority of the population in half of the countries of Latin America. Additionally, mestizos comprise large minorities in nearly all the other mainland countries.
• Whites: Beginning in the late 15th century, large numbers of Iberian colonists settled in what became Latin America (Portuguese in Brazil and Spaniards elsewhere in the region), and at present most white Latin Americans are of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian ancestry. Iberians brought the Spanish and Portuguese languages, the Catholic faith, and many Iberian traditions. Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela contain the largest numbers of Europeans in Latin America in pure numbers. They make up the majority of the population of Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba and Uruguay and roughly half of Brazil's and Venezuela's population.{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/ResultadosBasicosCenso2011.pdf |title=Resultado Básico del XIV Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2011 |page=14 |language=es |publisher=Ine.gov.ve |access-date=2012-11-25 |archive-date=2018-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115145751/http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/ResultadosBasicosCenso2011.pdf |url-status=dead }} Of the millions of immigrants since most of Latin America gained independence in the 1810s–1820s, Italians formed the largest group, and next were Spaniards and Portuguese.{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-41807/South-America |title=South America :: Postindependence overseas immigrants |access-date=2008-02-10 |encyclopedia=Britannica Online Encyclopedia}} Many others arrived, such as French, Germans, Greeks, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Croats, Serbs, Latvians, Lithuanians, English, Jews, Irish and Welsh. Most Latin Americans have some degree of European ancestry, when talking into account those of either mixed or full European descent.{{cite web |url=http://www.revistatabularasa.org/numero |title=Latinoamérica |access-date=2013-09-23 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• Amerindians: The indigenous population of Latin America arrived during the Lithic stage. In post-Columbian times, they experienced tremendous population decline, particularly in the early decades of colonization. They have since recovered in numbers, surpassing sixty million (by some estimates), though, with the growth of the other groups, they now comprise a majority only in Bolivia. In Guatemala, Amerindians are a large minority that comprises 41% of the population.[https://www.censopoblacion.gt/dondeestamos Census data] {{dead link|date=December 2023}} Mexico's 21% (9.8% in the official 2005 census) is the next largest ratio, and one of the largest indigenous population in the Americas in absolute numbers. Most of the remaining countries have Amerindians minorities, in every case making up less than one-tenth of the respective country's population. In many countries, people of mixed indigenous and European ancestry, known as mestizos, make up the majority of the population.
• Asians: People of Asian descent number several million in Latin America. The majority of Asian descendants in the country are either of West Asian (such as Lebanese or Syrian) or East Asian (like Chinese or Japanese) descent.{{cite journal|last=Lizcano Fernández|first=Francisco|url=http://convergencia.uaemex.mx/rev38/38pdf/LIZCANO.pdf|title=Composición Étnica de las Tres Áreas Culturales del Continente Americano al Comienzo del Siglo XXI|trans-title=Ethnic Composition of the Three Cultural Areas of the American Continent at the Beginning of the 21st Century|language=es|journal=Convergencia. Revista de Ciencias Sociales|publisher=Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México|location=Toluca, México|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626010236/http://convergencia.uaemex.mx/rev38/38pdf/LIZCANO.pdf|archive-date=26 June 2013|pages=194–195|quote=En principio, se pueden distinguir dos grupos muy distintos al interior de esta etnia: el que procede de Asia occidental (sobre todo árabes cristianos llegados desde Siria y Líbano) y el que salió de Asia oriental (chinos y japoneses principalmente).}} The first Asians to settle in the region were Filipino, as a result of Spain's trade involving Asia and the Americas. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics states that the country's largest Asian communities are from West Asia and East Asia.{{cite web|last1=Petruccelli|first1=Jose Luis|last2=Saboia|first2=Ana Lucia|title=Caracteristicas Etnico-raciais da Populacao Classificacoes e identidades|url=https://biblioteca.ibge.gov.br/visualizacao/livros/liv63405.pdf|access-date=28 July 2021|website=IBGE|page=53|quote=descendentes e os asiáticos – japoneses, chineses, coreanos, libaneses, sírios, entre outros}} It is estimated that 7 to 10 million Brazilians are of Lebanese descent.{{Cite web |url=http://www.itamaraty.gov.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7223:lebanese-republic&catid=155&lang=en&Itemid=478 |title=Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affaires |access-date=22 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923004630/http://www.itamaraty.gov.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7223:lebanese-republic&catid=155&lang=en&Itemid=478 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.libano.org.br/olibano_geografia.htm |title=Lebanon: Geography |language=pt |work=Embassy of Lebanon in Brazil |date=1996 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529005221/http://www.libano.org.br/olibano_geografia.htm |archive-date=29 May 2008}} Around 2 million Brazilians self-identify as being "Yellow" (amarela or of East Asian descent) according to the 2010 census.{{cite web|url=http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/estatistica/populacao/censo2010/caracteristicas_da_populacao/tabelas_pdf/tab3.pdf|date=8 November 2011|title=Censo Demográfi co 2010 Características da população e dos domicílios Resultados do universo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525132840/http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/estatistica/populacao/censo2010/caracteristicas_da_populacao/tabelas_pdf/tab3.pdf|access-date=5 November 2022|archive-date=25 May 2013}} The country is home to the largest ethnic Japanese community outside Japan itself, estimated as high as 1.5 million, and circa 200,000 ethnic Chinese and 100,000 ethnic Koreans.{{citation|work=Revista de Estudos da Religião|issue=Nº 3|year=2004|pages=74–87|issn=1677-1222|title=Reinterpretação do Budismo Chinês e Coreano no Brasil|first=Rafael |last=Shoji |url=http://www.pucsp.br/rever/rv3_2004/p_shoji.pdf|access-date=2010-06-02}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/brazil/index.html|title=Japan-Brazil Relations|work=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|access-date=22 September 2015}} Ethnic Koreans also number tens of thousands of individuals in Argentina and Mexico.{{citation|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |location=South Korea |year=2009 |access-date=2009-05-21 |url=http://www.mofat.go.kr/consul/overseascitizen/compatriotcondition/index6.jsp?TabMenu=TabMenu6 |title=재외동포현황/Current Status of Overseas Compatriots |ref=CITEREFMOFAT2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20101023213104/http://www.mofat.go.kr/consul/overseascitizen/compatriotcondition/index6.jsp?TabMenu=TabMenu6 |archive-date=2010-10-23 }} The 2017 census stated that under 40,000 Peruvians self-identified as having Chinese or Japanese ancestry.{{cite web|url=https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1539/libro.pdf|title=Perú: Perfil Sociodemográfico |page = 216 |website = Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática}} Though other estimates claim as much as 1.47 million people of East Asian descent reside in the country.{{cite web|url=http://www.ocac.gov.tw/english/public/public.asp?selno=1163&no=1163&level=B |title=:: Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission, R.O.C. :: |publisher=Ocac.gov.tw |date=2004-08-24 |access-date=2010-07-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131123193905/http://www.ocac.gov.tw/english/public/public.asp?selno=1163&no=1163&level=B |archive-date=2013-11-23 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.universia.edu.pe/noticias/principales/destacada.php?id=65889 |title=DESAFIOS-QUE-NOS-ACERCAN — Noticias — Universia Perú |publisher=Univeria.edu.pe |access-date=2010-07-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415092911/http://www.universia.edu.pe/noticias/principales/destacada.php?id=65889 |archive-date=2009-04-15 }} Lebanese and Syrian descendants have also formed notable communities in countries like Mexico and Argentina.{{cite news|title=Recopilaron casi 200 años de los sirio libaneses en Argentina|url=http://www.elindependiente.com.ar/papel/hoy/archivo_2004/noticias_v.asp?39074|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908043743/http://www.elindependiente.com.ar/papel/hoy/archivo_2004/noticias_v.asp?39074|archive-date=8 September 2014|access-date=9 November 2021|newspaper=El Independiente|quote=González convenció a sus pares de rechazarla, con el argumento de que eran "los más europeos del Asia y son sumisos y laboriosos".|language=es}} The Martiniquais population includes a mixed African, European and Amerindian descent, and an East Indian (Asian Indian) population is also present in Martinique.{{cite web |publisher=CIA |location=US |year=2003 |title=The World Factbook |url=http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact2003/geos/mb.html |access-date=2013-09-23 |archive-date=2018-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911195426/http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact2003/geos/mb.html |url-status=dead }} In Guadeloupe, an estimated 14% of the population is of East Asian descent.
• Mulattoes: Mulattoes are people of mixed European and African ancestry, mostly descended from Spanish, Portuguese, or French settlers on one side and African slaves on the other, during the colonial period. Brazil is home to Latin America's largest mulatto population. Mulattoes form a majority in the Dominican Republic and are also numerous in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador. Smaller populations of mulattoes are found in other Latin American countries.
• Blacks: Millions of African slaves were brought to Latin America from the 16th century onward, most of whom were sent to the Caribbean region and Brazil. Today, people identified as "black" are most numerous in Brazil (more than 20 million).{{cite web|url=http://sandiilessa.wordpress.com/|title=La trata de negros|access-date=22 September 2015}} Significant populations are also found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama and Colombia. Latin Americans of mixed black and white ancestry, called mulattoes, are far more numerous than blacks.
• Zambos: Intermixing between blacks and Amerindians was especially prevalent in Colombia and Brazil, often due to slaves running away (becoming cimarrones: maroons) and being taken in by indigenous villagers. In Spanish-speaking nations, people of this mixed ancestry are known as zambos,[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514000352/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A61891-2002Dec1¬Found=true Stranded in Paradise: Shipwrecked Hundreds of Years Ago, the Garifuna Are Still Trying to Find Their Way] by Teresa Wiltz, The Washington Post. and they are also known as cafuzos in Brazil.
• Multi-ethnic/Multi-racials: In addition to the foregoing groups, Latin America also has millions of peoples who belong to multiracial backgrounds.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

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The Latinobarómetro surveys have asked respondents in 18 Latin American countries what race they considered themselves to belong to. The figures shown below are averages for 2007 through 2011.[http://www.latinobarometro.org/ Informe Latinobarómetro], Latinobarómetro.

¹ Don't know/No response.

² Weighted using 2011 population.

Average proportions of West Eurasian (European and MENA), Native American and African admixtures in each Latin American country:

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Spanish and Portuguese are the predominant languages of Latin America. Spanish is the official language of most of the countries on the Latin American mainland, as well as in Puerto Rico (where it is co-official with English), Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Portuguese is spoken only in Brazil, the biggest and most populous country in the region. French is spoken in Haiti, as well as in the French overseas departments of French Guiana in South America and Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean. Dutch is the official language of some Caribbean islands and in Suriname on the continent; however, as Dutch is a Germanic language, these territories are not considered part of Latin America.

Indigenous languages are widely spoken in Peru, Guatemala, Bolivia and Paraguay, and, to a lesser degree, in Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. In Latin American countries not named above, the population of speakers of indigenous languages is small or non-existent.

In Peru, Quechua is an official language, alongside Spanish and any other indigenous language in the areas where they predominate. In Ecuador, while holding no official status, the closely related Quichua is a recognized language of the indigenous people under the country's constitution; however, it is only spoken by a few groups in the country's highlands. In Bolivia, Aymara, Quechua and Guaraní hold official status alongside Spanish. Guarani is, along with Spanish, an official language of Paraguay, and is spoken by a majority of the population (who are, for the most part, bilingual), and it is co-official with Spanish in the Argentine province of Corrientes. In Nicaragua, Spanish is the official language, but, on the country's Caribbean coast English and indigenous languages such as Miskito, Sumo, and Rama also hold official status. Colombia recognizes all indigenous languages spoken within its territory as official, though fewer than 1% of its population are native speakers of these. Nahuatl is one of the 62 native languages spoken by indigenous people in Mexico that are officially recognized by the government as "national languages" along with Spanish.

Other European languages spoken in Latin America include: English, by some groups in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama and Puerto Rico, as well as in nearby countries that may or may not be considered Latin American, such as Belize and Guyana; English is also used as a major foreign language in Latin American commerce and education. Other languages spoken in parts of Latin America include German in southern Brazil, southern Chile, Argentina, portions of northern Venezuela and Paraguay; Italian in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela; Polish, Ukrainian and Russian in southern Brazil; and Welsh{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1163503|title=h2g2 - Y Wladfa - The Welsh in Patagonia - Edited Entry|author=Not Panicking Ltd|date=21 November 2011|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=22 September 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.1stclassargentina.com/tours/WelshImmigration.html|title=The Welsh Immigration to Argentina|work=1stclassargentina.com|access-date=22 September 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.argbrit.org/Patagonia/patagonia_entry.htm|title=Opening page: The Welsh in Patagonia|author=Jeremy Howat|work=argbrit.org|access-date=22 September 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.patagonline.com/patagonia/destacados/peninsula-valdes/gaiman-trelew|title=Gaiman, Trelew y Rawson|work=patagonline.com|access-date=22 September 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.andesceltig.com/|title=Y Wladfa - Patagonia|work=andesceltig.com|access-date=22 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917174822/http://andesceltig.com/|archive-date=17 September 2017|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.glaniad.com/ |title=Reference for Welsh language in southern Argentina, Welsh immigration to Patagonia |access-date=2010-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808130811/http://www.glaniad.com/ |archive-date=2016-08-08 |url-status=usurped }} in southern Argentina. Hebrew and Yiddish are used by Jewish diasporas in Argentina and Brazil.

In several nations, especially in the Caribbean region, creole languages are spoken. The most widely spoken creole language in the Caribbean in general is Haitian Creole, the predominant language of Haiti; it is derived primarily from French and certain West African tongues with indigenous, English, Portuguese and Spanish influences as well. The other most spoken Creole is Antillean Creole French that is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles. It is a French-based creole, that is the local language spoken among the natives of the Caribbean islands of Saint Lucia and Dominica and also in Martinique and Guadeloupe. Creole languages of mainland Latin America, similarly, are derived from European languages and various African tongues.

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The vast majority of Latin Americans are Christians (90%),{{cite web|url=http://www.pewforum.org/global-religious-landscape-christians.aspx|title=Christians|date=18 December 2012|work=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project|access-date=22 September 2015}} mostly Roman Catholics.{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613003300/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 13, 2007 |title=CIA — The World Factbook -- Field Listing — Religions |access-date=2009-03-17}} About 71% of the Latin American population consider themselves Catholic.Fraser, Barbara J., [http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20050628212330/http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0503707.htm In Latin America, Catholics down, church's credibility up, poll says] Catholic News Service June 23, 2005 Membership in Protestant denominations is increasing, particularly in Brazil, Guatemala and Puerto Rico. Argentina hosts the largest communities of both Jews{{cite web |title=World Jewish Population|last=LeElef|first=Ner |url=http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/world-jewish-population.htm#_ftnref1|access-date=2008-01-09}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20171107190542/http://www.jpppi.org.il/JPPPI/SendFile.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&GID=489 The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute; Annual Assessment, 2007 ]{{Cite web |url=http://www.ujc.org/section.html?id=29|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531003148/http://www.ujc.org/section.html?id=29|title=United Jewish Communities; Global Jewish Populations|archivedate=May 31, 2008}} and Muslims{{cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/26516.htm|title=Argentina |work=U.S. Department of State|access-date=22 September 2015}}{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108511.htm|title=Argentina|work=U.S. Department of State|date=19 September 2008|access-date=22 September 2015}}{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/specials/newsid_4294000/4294241.stm|title=BBC Mundo - A fondo - Árabes y musulmanes en América Latina|work=bbc.co.uk|date=17 March 2005|access-date=22 September 2015}} in Latin America. Indigenous religions and rituals are practiced in countries with large indigenous populations, especially Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru, and Afro-Latin American religions such as Santería, Candomblé, Umbanda, and Macumba are practiced in countries with large Afro-Latin American populations, especially Cuba, Brazil, and Dominican Republic. Latin America constitutes, in absolute terms, the world's second largest Christian population, after Europe.{{cite web|url=https://www.pewforum.org/files/2014/01/global-religion-full.pdf|title=The Global Religious Landscape|publisher=Pewforum.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125173538/https://www.pewforum.org/files/2014/01/global-religion-full.pdf|access-date=7 May 2020|archive-date=25 January 2017}}

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{{See also|Latino Americans|Latin American Canadians|Latin Americans in the United Kingdom|Latin American Australians|Latin American Asian}}

According to the 2005 Colombian census or DANE, about 3,331,107 Colombians currently live abroad.{{cite web |url=http://www.pstalker.com/migration/index.htm |title=Peter Stalker |website=www.pstalker.com |archive-date=January 31, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131171057/http://www.pstalker.com/migration/index.htm}} The number of Brazilians living overseas is estimated at 2 million people.{{Cite web|url=http://www2.camara.gov.br/comissoes/credn/publicacao/NotatecnicaBrasileirosExterior.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721072130/http://www2.camara.gov.br/comissoes/credn/publicacao/NotatecnicaBrasileirosExterior.html|url-status=dead|title=Brasileiros no Exterior — Portal da Câmara dos Deputados|archivedate=July 21, 2009}} An estimated 1.5 to two million Salvadorians reside in the United States.[http://www.usaid.gov/sv/country.html Country Overview: El Salvador] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100101123447/http://www.usaid.gov/sv/country.html |date=January 1, 2010 }}, United States Agency for International Development At least 1.5 million Ecuadorians have gone abroad, mainly to the United States and Spain.[https://web.archive.org/web/20071228044616/http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2008/0107/112.html Chavistas in Quito], Forbes.com, January 7, 2008 Approximately 1.5 million Dominicans live abroad, mostly in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39306 |title=Dominican Republic: Remittances for Development|work=ipsnews.net|access-date=22 September 2015|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610221238/http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39306 |archive-date=10 June 2011}} More than 1.3 million Cubans live abroad, most of them in the United States.[http://www.radiojamaica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6572&Itemid=87 Cubans Abroad], Radiojamaica.com It is estimated that over 800,000 Chileans live abroad, mainly in Argentina, Canada, United States and Spain. Other Chilean nationals may be located in countries like Costa Rica, Mexico and Sweden.[http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=199 Chile: Moving Towards a Migration Policy], Migration Information Source An estimated 700,000 Bolivians were living in Argentina as of 2006 and another 33,000 in the United States.{{cite web|title=South America: Brazil, Mercosur - Migration News - Migration Dialogue|work=ucdavis.edu |url=http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=1590_0_5_0|access-date=22 September 2015}} Central Americans living abroad in 2005 were 3,314,300,{{cite web |title=Prospects - Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 |work=worldbank.org |url=http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/0,,contentMDK:21352016~isCURL:Y~menuPK:3145470~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:476883,00.html|access-date=22 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208121838/http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/0,,contentMDK:21352016~isCURL:Y~menuPK:3145470~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:476883,00.html|archive-date=8 December 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} of which 1,128,701 were Salvadorans,{{cite web|url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1199807908806/ElSalvador.pdf |title=Latin America & Caribbean (ElSalvador) |publisher=World Bank |year=2006 |access-date=2010-07-26}} 685,713 were Guatemalans,{{cite web|url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1199807908806/Guatemala.pdf |title=Latin America & Caribbean (Guatemala) |publisher=World Bank |year=2006 |access-date=2010-07-26}} 683,520 were Nicaraguans,{{cite web|url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1199807908806/Nicaragua.pdf |title=Latin America & Caribbean (Nicaragua) |publisher=World Bank |year=2006 |access-date=2010-07-26}} 414,955 were Hondurans,{{cite web|url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1199807908806/Honduras.pdf |title=Latin America & Caribbean (Honduras) |publisher=World Bank |year=2006 |access-date=2010-07-26}} 215,240 were Panamanians{{cite web|url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1199807908806/Panama.pdf |title=Latin America & Caribbean (Panama) |publisher=World Bank |year=2006 |access-date=2010-07-26}} and 127,061 were Costa Rica.{{cite web|url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1199807908806/CostaRica.pdf |title=Latin America & Caribbean (CostaRica) |publisher=World Bank |year=2006 |access-date=2010-07-26}}

As of 2006, Costa Rica and Chile were the only two countries with global positive migration rates.{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/2006_MigrationRep/Profiles_country.pdf|title=United Nations Population Division|accessdate=28 December 2023}}

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