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

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         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 Source:  U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000, Summary File 1 and unpublished data.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.