|
Group |
Number |
Percent |
|
HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN |
|
|
|
Total population. |
281,421,906 |
100.0 |
|
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) |
35,305,818 |
12.5 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
246,116,088 |
87.5 |
|
|
|
|
|
HISPANIC OR LATINO BY TYPE |
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino (of any race). |
35,305,818 |
100.0 |
|
Mexican |
20,640,711 |
58.5 |
|
Puerto Rican |
3,406,178 |
9.6 |
|
Cuban |
1,241,685 |
3.5 |
|
Other Hispanic or Latino. |
10,017,244 |
28.4 |
|
Dominican (Dominican Republic) |
764,945 |
2.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Central American (excludes Mexican) |
1,686,937 |
4.8 |
|
Costa Rican |
68,588 |
0.2 |
|
Guatemalan |
372,487 |
1.1 |
|
Honduran |
217,569 |
0.6 |
|
Nicaraguan |
177,684 |
0.5 |
|
Panamanian |
91,723 |
0.3 |
|
Salvadoran |
655,165 |
1.9 |
|
Other Central American |
103,721 |
0.3 |
|
|
|
|
|
South American |
1,353,562 |
3.8 |
|
Argentinean |
100,864 |
0.3 |
|
Bolivian |
42,068 |
0.1 |
|
Chilean |
68,849 |
0.2 |
|
Colombian |
470,684 |
1.3 |
|
Ecuadorian |
260,559 |
0.7 |
|
Paraguayan |
8,769 |
-- |
|
Peruvian |
233,926 |
0.7 |
|
Uruguayan |
18,804 |
0.1 |
|
Venezuelan |
91,507 |
0.3 |
|
Other South American |
57,532 |
0.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Spaniard (from Spain) |
100,135 |
0.3 |
|
|
|
|
|
All other Hispanic or Latino |
6,111,665 |
17.3 |
|
Checkbox only, other Hispanic. |
1,733,274 |
4.9 |
|
Write-in “Spanish” |
686,004 |
1.9 |
|
Write in “Hispanic” |
2,454,529 |
7.0 |
|
Write-in “Latino” |
450,769 |
1.3 |
|
Not elsewhere classified. |
787,089 |
2.2 |
Table 2: Hispanic population in
the U.S. by country of origin in Census 2000.[i]
[i] Census 2000 PHC-T-10. Hispanic or Latino Origin for the United States, Regions, Divisions, States, and for Puerto Rico: 2000. Table 1-US. Hispanic or Latino Origin for the United States: 2000. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000, Summary File 1 and unpublished data. Internet Release date: October 22, 2001
(For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, and definitions, see www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf1.pdf). Percentage rounds to 0.0.