Asian Latin Americans
Asiáticolatinoamericanos | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| c. 12,607,730 approximately | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Peru | 5,100,000 |
| Brazil | 3,000,000 |
| Mexico | 1,000,000 |
| Argentina | 900,000 |
| Venezuela | 800,130 |
| Colombia | 213,910 |
| Panama | 210,000 |
| Cuba | 114,240 |
| Dominican Republic | 52,000 |
| Paraguay | 51,000 |
| Guatemala | 27,000 |
| Chile | 25,000 |
| Ecuador | 17,080 |
| Bolivia | 15,000 |
| Nicaragua | 14,000 |
| Costa Rica | 9,170 |
| Puerto Rico | 6,390 |
| Uruguay | 4,000 |
| El Salvador | 3,271 (self-reported; 20,000 estimated) |
| Honduras | 2,609 |
| Languages | |
| European Languages: Spanish · Portuguese · English Asian Languages: Chinese · Japanese · Korean · Filipino · Vietnamese · Thai · Malay · Arabic · Hindustani · Tamil · Telugu · Punjabi · Bengali | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity · Buddhism · Taoism · Shintoism · Islam · Zoroastrianism · Hinduism · Sikhism · Jainism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Latino, Hispanic, Asian, Filipinos, Spaniards, Portuguese, European Latin Americans, Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans, Latin American Asian, Asian Caribbean, Chinese Caribbean people | |
Asian Latin Americans (sometimes Asian-Latinos) are Latin Americans of Asian descent. Asian immigrants to Latin America have largely been from East Asia or West Asia. Historically, Asians in Latin America have a centuries-long history in the region, starting with Filipinos in the 16th century. The peak of Asian immigration occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. There are currently more than four million Asian Latin Americans, nearly 1% of Latin America's population. Chinese, Japanese, and Lebanese are the largest Asian ancestries; other major ethnic groups include Filipinos, Syrians, Koreans and Indians, many of whom are Indo-Caribbean and came from neighboring countries in the Caribbean and the Guianas. Brazil is home to the largest population of East Asian descent, estimated at 2.08 million. The country is also home to a large percentage of West Asian descendants. With as much as 5% of their population having some degree of Chinese ancestry, Peru and Mexico have the highest ratio of any country for East Asian descent. Though the most recent official census, which relied on self-identification, gave a much lower percentage.
There has been notable emigration from these communities in recent decades, so that there are now hundreds of thousands of people of Asian Latin American origin in both Japan and the United States.