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White Dominicans

This article is about inhabitants of the Dominican Republic of European descent. For inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Dominica of European descent, see White Dominican (Dominica).
White Dominicans
Total population
Approximately 1,900,000 (2021) (17.8%)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Chiefly in Espaillat, Santiago, Santiago Rodríguez and Valverde; also in Distrito Nacional, Hermanas Mirabal, La Vega and Monte Christi
Languages
Dominican Spanish
Religion
Roman Catholic

White Dominicans (Spanish: "Dominicanos blancos") are Dominican people of predominant or full European descent.[1] They are 17.8% of the Dominican Republic's population, according to a 2021 survey by the United Nations Population Fund.[2] The majority of white Dominicans have ancestry from the first European settlers to arrive in Hispaniola in 1492 and are descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese who settled in the island during colonial times, as well as the French who settled in the 17th and 18th centuries. Many whites in the Dominican Republic also descend from Italians,[3][4] Dutchmen,[3][4] Germans,[3] Hungarians, Scandinavians, Americans[3][4] and other nationalities who have migrated between the 19th and 20th centuries.[3][4] About 9.2% of the Dominican population claims a European immigrant background, according to the 2021 Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas survey.[2]

White Dominicans historically made up a larger percentage in the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo and for a time were the single largest ethnic group prior to the 19th century.[5][6] Similar to the rest of the Hispanic Caribbean, the majority of Spaniards who settled the Dominican Republic came from southern Spain, Andalusia and the Canary Islands, the latter of whom are of partial North African Guanche descent.

  1. ^ a b "Breve Encuesta Nacional de Autopercepción Racial y Étnica en la República Dominicana" (PDF). Santo Domingo: Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas. September 2021. p. 22. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Breve Encuesta Nacional de Autopercepción Racial y Étnica en la República Dominicana" (PDF). Santo Domingo: Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas (United Nations Population Fund). September 2021. p. 22. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
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  6. ^ Stanley J. Engerman, Barry W. Higman, "The demographic structures of the Caribbean Slaves Societies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries", General History of the Caribbean: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean, vol. III, London, 1997, pp. 48–49.

    PUERTO RICO: 17,572 whites; 5,037 slaves; 22,274 freed coloured people; total- 44,883. CUBA: 116,947 whites; 28,760 slaves; 24,293 freed coloured people; total- 170,000. SANTO DOMINGO: 30,863 whites; 8,900 slaves; 30,862 freed coloured people; total- 70,625. TOTAL SPANISH COLONIES: 165,382 whites; 42,967 slaves; 77,429 freed coloured people; total- 285,508.

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