Total population | |
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23,394,739 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Haiti | 8.9 million |
United States | 2.88 million |
Jamaica | 2.2 million |
Dominican Republic | 2.0 million[1] |
France | 1.2 million[2] |
Cuba | 1.03 million[3] |
United Kingdom | 1.0 million[4] |
Trinidad and Tobago | 452,536[5] |
Canada | 383,533 |
Bahamas | 372,000 |
Puerto Rico | 342,000 |
Barbados | 253,771 |
Guyana | 225,860 |
Suriname | 202,500 |
Saint Lucia | 173,765 |
Curaçao | 148,000 |
Grenada | 101,309 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 98,693[6] |
Belize | 93,394 |
Antigua and Barbuda | 82,041 |
U.S. Virgin Islands | 80,868 |
Dominica | 72,660 |
Honduras | 51,000 (approx) in Bay Islands Department |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | 38,827 |
Cayman Islands | 18,837 |
Languages | |
Religion | |
Predominantly: Minority: | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Afro–Latin Americans, Americo-Liberians, African Americans, Sierra Leone Creoles, West Africans |
Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa. The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbean people descend from the Africans (primarily from Central and West Africa) taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries to work primarily on various sugar plantations and in domestic households. Other names for the ethnic group include Black Caribbean, Afro or Black West Indian, or Afro or Black Antillean. The term Afro-Caribbean was not coined by Caribbean people themselves but was first used by European Americans in the late 1960s.[7]
People of Afro-Caribbean descent today are largely of West African and Central African ancestry, and may additionally be of other origins, including European, Chinese, South Asian and Amerindian descent, as there has been extensive intermarriage and unions among the peoples of the Caribbean over the centuries.
Although most Afro-Caribbean people today continue to reside in English, French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean nations and territories, there are also significant diaspora populations throughout the Western world, especially in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands. Caribbean peoples are predominantly of Christian faith, though some practice African-derived or syncretic religions, such as Santeria, Vodou and Winti. Many speak creole languages, such as Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, Sranantongo, Saint Lucian Creole or Papiamento.
Both the home and diaspora populations have produced a number of individuals who have had a notable influence on modern African, Caribbean and Western societies; they include political activists such as Marcus Garvey and C. L. R. James; writers and theorists such as Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon; US military leader and statesman Colin Powell; athletes such as Usain Bolt, Tim Duncan and David Ortiz; and musicians Bob Marley, Nicki Minaj and Rihanna.
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