White Latin Americans
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 191.5 million – 220.6 million 40% of the Latin American population
| |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Brazil | 88M |
| Mexico | 39-53M (est.) |
| Argentina | 38M (est.) |
| Colombia | 19-25M (est.) |
| Venezuela | 13M |
| Chile | 10M (est.) |
| Cuba | 7.1M |
| Uruguay | 2.9M |
| Costa Rica | 2.8M |
| Paraguay | 1.7M |
| Dominican Republic | 1.6M |
| Peru | 1.3M,5.8M (est.) |
| Puerto Rico | 0.560M–2.8M |
| Bolivia | 0.600M–1.7M (est.) |
| Nicaragua | 1.1M |
| Guatemala | 0.800M (est.) |
| El Salvador | 0.730M |
| Honduras | 0.09M–0.767M (est.) |
| Ecuador | 0.375M |
| Panama | 0.366M |
| Haiti | 0.59M |
| Languages | |
| Major languages Spanish and Portuguese Minor languages Italian, French, English, German, Dutch, and other languages | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (mainly Roman Catholicism, with minority Protestantism) Minority: Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Mestizos, Mulattoes, Spaniards, Portuguese, other European peoples | |
White Latin Americans are Latin Americans of total or predominantly European or West Asian ancestry.
Individuals with full or nearly full European ancestry in Latin America originate from European settlers and immigrants who arrived in the Americas during the colonial and post-colonial periods. These populations are now found throughout Latin America.
Most immigrants who settled Latin America for the past five centuries were from Spain and Portugal; after independence, the most numerous non-Iberian immigrants were from France, Italy, and Germany, followed by other Europeans as well as West Asians (such as Levantine Arabs and Armenians).
Composing 33-36% of the population as of 2010 (according to some sources), White Latin Americans constitute the second largest racial-ethnic group in the region after mestizos (mixed Amerindian and European people). Latin American populations have often participated in interracial marriage since the beginning of the colonial period. White (Spanish: blanco or güero; Portuguese: branco) is the self-identification of many Latin Americans in some national censuses. According to a survey conducted by Cohesión Social in Latin America, conducted on a sample of 10,000 people from seven countries of the region, 34% of those interviewed identified themselves as white.