Latin Americans

Latin Americans (Spanish: Latinoamericanos; Portuguese: Latino-americanos; French: Latino-américains), sometimes referred to as Latinos, are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America). Latin American countries and their diasporas are multi-ethnic and multi-racial. Latin Americans are a pan-ethnicity consisting of people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Latin Americans do not take their nationality as an ethnicity, but identify themselves with a combination of their nationality, ethnicity and their ancestral origins.[18] Aside from the indigenous population, all Latin Americans have some Old World ancestors who arrived since 1492. Latin America has the largest diasporas of Spaniards, Portuguese, Africans, Italians, Lebanese and Japanese in the world.[19][20][21] The region also has large German (second largest after the United States),[22] French, Palestinian (largest outside the Arab states),[23] Chinese and Jewish diasporas.

Latin Americans

Total population
680,000,000 or more (in 2021)[1][2][3]
Regions with significant populations
Latin America 628,000,000[1][2]
Brazil	214,326,223
Mexico	126,705,138
Colombia	51,516,562
Argentina	45,276,780
Peru	33,715,471
Venezuela	28,199,867
Chile	19,493,184
Guatemala	17,608,483
Ecuador	17,797,737
Bolivia	12,079,472
Cuba	11,256,372
Haiti	11,447,569
Dominican Republic	11,117,873
Honduras	10,278,345
Paraguay	6,703,799
Nicaragua	6,850,540
El Salvador	6,314,167
Costa Rica	5,153,957
Panama	4,351,267
Uruguay	3,426,260
Puerto Rico	3,256,028
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United States	+62,000,000[4][5]
Spain	+1,700,000[6]
France	1,333,000[7][8]
Canada	+1,000,000[9]
Italy	354,180[10]
Japan	+345,000[11]
Germany	206,094[12]
United Kingdom	186,500[13]
Portugal	~100,000[14]
Australia	93,795[15]
Sweden	88,175[16]
Languages
Primarily Spanish and Portuguese Regionally Haitian Creole, Quechua, Mayan languages, Guaraní, French, Aymara, Nahuatl and others
Religion
Roman Catholic 69% Protestant 19% Irreligious 8% Other 4% [17]

The specific ethnic and/or racial composition varies from country to country and diaspora community to diaspora community: many have a predominance of mixed indigenous and European descent or mestizo, population; in others, native Americans are a majority; some are mostly inhabited by people of European ancestry; others are primarily mulatto.[18][24] The largest single group are white Latin Americans.[18] Together with the people of part European ancestry, they combine for almost the totality of the population.[18]

Latin Americans and their descendants can be found almost everywhere in the world, particularly in densely populated urban areas. The most important migratory destinations for Latin Americans are found in the United States, Spain, France, Canada and Italy.