White Latin Americans
Country Percentage of the local population Population in ( millions )
Uruguay 92 3.2
Argentina 52 -85 38
Costa Rica 82.7 3.2
Puerto Rico 75.8 2.6
Cuba 64.1 7.16
Chile 52 9.1
Brazil 47.7 91
Mexico 10 - 47 12.7 - 56
Venezuela 43.6 13.1
Colombia 37 18.2
Paraguay 20.0 1.7
Guatemala 18.5 2.7
Nicaragua 17 4.3
Dominican Republic 16 2.0
El Salvador 12.0 0.6
Panama 10 0.720
Ecuador 6.1 0.883
Peru 5.9 1.3
Bolivia 5 0.950
Haiti 5 ( est . ) 0.524 ( est . )
Populations
The largest white population in Latin America is in Brazil , with 91 million whites out of 190.7 million total Brazilians , [ 46 ] or 47.7% of the total population , as of the 2010 census . Brazil 's southern region contains the highest concentration , at 79% of the population . [ 3 ] Argentina also contains a large numbers of whites . In terms of percentage of the total population , Uruguay has the highest concentrations of whites , who constitute 92% of their total population , while Honduras has the smallest white population , with only 1% .
White Latin Americans, or European Latin Americans, are Latin Americans who are considered white, typically due to European, or in some cases Levantine, descent. Latin American countries have often encouraged mixing of different ethnic groups for procreation, and even a small amount of European ancestry could entail significant upwards social mobility. People descended from European settlers who arrived in the Americas during the colonial and post-independence periods can be found throughout Latin America. Most of the earliest settlers were Spanish and Portuguese; after independence, the most numerous immigrants have been Spanish and Italians, followed by Germans, Levantine Semites, Poles, Irish, British, French, Russians, Belgians, Dutch, Scandinavians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Croats, Swiss, Greeks, and other Europeans. Composing from 33% to 36% of the population , according to some sources, White Latin Americans constitute the largest racial-ethnic group in the region. White is the self-identification of many Latin Americans in some national censuses. According to a survey conducted by Cohesión Social in Latin America, conducted on a sample of 10,000 people from seven countries of the region, 34% of those interviewed identified themselves as white.