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About 67% of Dominicans in Puerto Rico are legal citizens. [15] The 2010 census estimated a population of 68,036 Dominicans in Puerto Rico, [1] equal to 1.8% of the Commonwealth's population. Majority of Dominicans in Puerto Rico live in the San Juan metropolitan area, chiefly the cities of San Juan, Bayamón, and Carolina.
[10] [11] Non-hispanic people only made up 1.1% of the population of Puerto Rico, the majority of which are made up of U.S. citizens especially White Americans, and to a lesser degree Black Americans. [12] Some non-Puerto Rican Hispanics are U.S.-born. Ethnic Puerto Ricans numbered 3,139,035, representing 95.5% of Puerto Rico's population.
This list of Caribbean countries and dependencies by population is sorted by the mid-year normalized demographic ... Dominican Republic (24.4%) ... Puerto Rico 7.0% ...
Dominicans represent 53% of non-Puerto Rican Hispanics, about 1.8% of Puerto Rico's population. [194] Some illegal immigrants, particularly from Haiti, Dominican Republic, [233] [234] and Cuba [citation needed], use Puerto Rico as a temporary stop-over point to get to the U.S. mainland.
In recent times, Dominican and Puerto Rican researchers identified in the current Dominican population the presence of genes belonging to the aborigines of the Canary Islands (commonly called Guanches). [56] These types of genes have also been detected in Puerto Rico. [57]
There was also a growing Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico, with nearly 70,000 Dominicans living there as of 2010. Although that number is slowly decreasing and immigration trends have reversed because of Puerto Rico's economic crisis as of 2016. There is a significant Dominican population in Spain. [248] [249]
The reasons offered were simply that the island was closer to Santo Domingo (presently the Dominican Republic) than to Puerto Rico, and that it had a small population which could help the colony's economy in overall agricultural production. However, the petition was turned down and the island continued to remain politically part of Puerto Rico.
In 1871, half of Puerto Plata's population was composed of foreigners; and in both the 1888 and 1897 censuses, 30% was foreign born. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Most of the offspring of Puerto Plata's immigrants moved to Santiago and Santo Domingo in the 20th century.