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Jun 7, 2018 · The descendants of Ecuador's population mostly originate from the Spanish immigrants and the native South American people. Most of Ecuadorians are of the Hispanic mestizo culture which is a mixture of Amerindian and Spanish cultures despite their ethnic diversity.
Ethnicity in Ecuador is often a matter of self-identification. Most Ecuadorans consider themselves mestizo and tend to identify with their region of birth; the mestizo culture is highly regionalized.
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Ethnicity: 72 % of the people of Ecuador by demographics are (mixed race) mestizo Indians. Ecuador's ethnicity, highlights of all 10 tribes and pictures of our tribal friends and children.
The 2022 census revealed, 77.5% of the population identified as "Mestizos", a mix of Spanish and Indigenous American ancestry, up from 71.9% in 2000. The percentage of the population which identifies as "white" has fallen from 6.1% (2010) to 2.2% in 2022. [6]
Oct 10, 2021 · The Ecuadorian census defines five major ethnic groups: Afro-Ecuadorian, Indigenous, Blanco, Mestizo, and Montubio. 4,5 Mestizos—historically defined as the descendants of Europeans and Indigenous Americans—constitute the largest part (71.9%) of the Ecuadorian population according to the current census (2010).
- 10.1016/j.xhgg.2021.100050
- 2021/10/10
- HGG Adv. 2021 Oct 14; 2(4): 100050.
Most Afro-Ecuadorians are the descendants of enslaved Africans who were transported by predominantly British slavers to Ecuador from the early 16th century. [3] In 1553, the first enslaved Africans reached Ecuador in Quito when a slave ship heading to Peru was stranded off the Ecuadorian coast.
Ecuadorians are the 10th-largest population of Hispanic origin living in the United States, accounting for 1% of the U.S. Hispanic population in 2021. From 2000 to 2021, the Ecuadorian-origin population increased 208%, growing from 270,000 to 830,000.
