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Race and ethnicity in Colombia descend mainly from three racial groups—Europeans, Amerindians, and Africans—that have mixed throughout the last 500 years of the country's history. Some demographers describe Colombia as one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the Western Hemisphere and in the World, with 900 different ethnic groups.
Colombians (Spanish: Colombianos) are people identified with the country of Colombia. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural.
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...
Afro-Colombians are a significant portion (almost one quarter) of Colombia's overall population, yet they are one of the poorest ethnic groups of the country. More specifically, studies have shown that three-quarters of the Colombian population which is classified as being "poor", is composed of Afro-Colombians.
Many scholars estimate the true indigenous population of Colombia to be around 10% of the country's population, or 5 million people, [citation needed] the same can be said for Afro Colombians who are estimated to be around 20% of the total population or 10 million people, despite only 6% of Colombians identifying as Afro Colombian in the 2018 ...
Brazil and Colombia were the top exporters of coffee to the U.S. in 2022, according to the USDA. But the U.S. is a food-producing powerhouse of its own, even if what it produces looks different ...
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
While most sources estimate Whites to be 20% of the country's population, [1] [2] [3] the Federal Research Division (using data from the 2005 census) puts that percentage at 37%. [4] According to a Latinobarómetro poll, 26% of Colombians surveyed self-identified as White, [7] [8] White Colombians primarily live in the Andean Region and the ...