African diaspora in the Americas
The African diaspora in the Americas refers to the people born in the Americas with partial, predominant, or complete sub-Saharan African ancestry. Many are descendants of persons enslaved in Africa and transferred to the Americas by Europeans, then forced to work mostly in European-owned mines and plantations, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Significant groups have been established in the United States (African Americans), in Latin America (Afro-Latin Americans), in Canada (Black Canadians), and in the Caribbean (Afro-Caribbean).
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| ~100,000,000 +250,000,000 (including mixed ancestry) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States | 46,936,733 |
| Brazil | 20,656,458 |
| Haiti | 10,896,000 |
| Colombia | 4,671,160 |
| Mexico | 2,576,213 |
| Jamaica | 2,531,000 |
| Dominican Republic | 1,704,000 |
| Panama | 1,258,915 |
| Canada | 1,198,540 |
| Cuba | 1,034,044 |
| Venezuela | 936,770 |
| Peru | 828,824 |
| Ecuador | 814,468 |
| Puerto Rico | 574,287 |
| Nicaragua | 572,000 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 452,536 |
| Bahamas | 324,000 |
| Barbados | 280,000 |
| Uruguay | 255,074 |
| Guyana | 227,062 |
| Suriname | 202,500 |
| Honduras | 191,000 |
| Argentina | 149,493 |
| Saint Lucia | 142,000 |
| Belize | 108,000 |
| Languages | |
| English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Papiamento, Dutch | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Rastafari, Afro-American religions, Traditional African religions, Islam, others | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| African diaspora, Maroons | |
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