African diaspora in the Americas

African diaspora in the Americas

Regions with significant populations
United States	46,936,733[1]
Brazil	20,656,458[2]
Haiti	10,896,000[3]
Colombia	4,671,160[4][5][6][7][8]
Mexico	2,576,213[9]
Jamaica	2,531,000[10]
Dominican Republic	1,704,000[11] [12]
Panama	1,258,915[13]
Canada	1,198,540[14]
Cuba	1,034,044[15]
Venezuela	936,770[16][17]
Peru	828,824[18]
Ecuador	814,468[19]
Puerto Rico	574,287[20]
Nicaragua	572,000[21]
Trinidad and Tobago	452,536[22]
Bahamas	324,000[23]
Barbados	280,000[24]
Uruguay	255,074[25]
Guyana	227,062[26]
Suriname	202,500[27]
Honduras	191,000[28] [29]
Argentina	149,493[30][31][32]
Saint Lucia	142,000[33]
Belize	108,000[34]
Languages
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Papiamento, Dutch
Religion
Christianity, Rastafari, Afro-American religions, Traditional African religions, Islam, others
Related ethnic groups
African diaspora, Maroons

The African diaspora in the Americas refers to the people born in the Americas with partial, predominant, or complete sub-Saharan African ancestry. Many are descendants of persons enslaved in Africa and transferred to the Americas by Europeans, then forced to work mostly in European-owned mines and plantations, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Significant groups have been established in the United States (African Americans), in Canada (Black Canadians), in the Caribbean (Afro-Caribbean), and in Latin America (Afro-Latin Americans).