Venezuelans

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Venezuelans
Venezolanos
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Total population
c.33.5 million
Diaspora c.7.1 million
0.44% of world's population
Regions with significant populations
Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela      28,199,867 (2016) [1] [2]
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 2,820,000 [3]
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 1,600,000 [4] [5] [6]
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 814,080 (2023) [7]
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 532,715 (2021) [8]
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 500,000 [9] [10]
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 440,992 (2022) [11]
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 325,766 [12] [13]
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 272,000 [14] [15]
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic 124,100 [16] [17]
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 100,000 [18]
Flag of Panama.svg  Panama 94,400 [19]
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 78,849 [20] [21]
Flag of Syria.svg  Syria 60,000 - 200,000 [22] [23]
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 59,000 - 150,000 [24] [25] [26]
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 53,000 [18]
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 33,000 [27] [28]
Flag of France.svg  France 30,000 [29]
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 28,395 [30]
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 20,000 [20] [18]
Flag of Aruba.svg  Aruba 17,000 [31]
Flag of Curacao.svg  Curaçao 17,000 [31]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 15,000 [18]
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 15,000 [18]
Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon 12,000 [32] [33]
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 10,000 [18]
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 5,000 [18]
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 4,000 [34]
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 3,108 [35]
Flag of Costa Rica (state).svg  Costa Rica 3,000 [18]
Flag of Guyana.svg  Guyana 3,000 [18]
Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 2,500 [18]
Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg  Bolivia 2,000 [18]
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2,000 [18]
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1,837 [18]
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1,000 [18]
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1,000 [18]
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia 1,000 [18]
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1,000 [18]
Flag of Bonaire.svg  Bonaire 713 [36]
Flag of Sint Maarten.svg  Sint Maarten 600 [37]
Languages
Primarily Venezuelan Spanish (96.6%) [38]
Other languages
Religion
Christian majority: Roman Catholicism (71.0%), Protestantism (Evangelicals) (22.0%), other Christians: Eastern Orthodox Church, Mormonism, Jehovah Witnesses

Irreligion, Deism, Agnosticism and Atheism: (8.0%)

minorities: Santería (1%), Muslim (0.4%), Judaism (0.05%) [41]
Related ethnic groups
Spaniards, Mestizo, Amerindians

Venezuelans (Spanish: venezolanos) are the citizens identified with the country of Venezuela. This connection may be through citizenship, descent or cultural. For most Venezuelans, many or all of these connections exist and are the source of their Venezuelan citizenship or their bond to Venezuela.

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Venezuela is a diverse and multilingual country, home to a melting pot of people of distinct origins, as a result, many Venezuelans do not regard their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship or allegiance. Venezuela as Argentina and Brazil, received most immigrants, during 1820s to 1930s Venezuela received a major wave of 2.1 million European immigrants, being the third country in Latin America to have received Europeans, behind Argentina and Brazil. [42]

Historical and ethnic aspects

Pre-Columbian period

Writing was not used in pre-Columbian times, a historical stage where various groups began to move throughout the Americas, thus making it difficult to find evidence of the people who began to populate this land. However, archaeological excavations show evidence of certain periods that were taking place on the continent.

Venezuela was probably first settled by humans 16,000 years ago, due to migration flows from other indigenous cultures of America, from the south to the Amazon, from the west through Los Andes and north by the Caribbean Sea.

There are four periods of diversity that develop in the current Venezuela, which also entering a new period, it did not mean the end of the previous.

The first migrations to the continent were probably from East Asia to 15,000 years. C. These early migrants (called forth by the generic name "Indians") came at first to be located in North America, later moving to the territory of present Venezuela. Now for their offspring, it was clear verify the Asian features on their faces that will adapt to the climate and lifestyle.

During this period, various mammals were disappearing by climatic changes already beginning to take place from 5000 years ago, so the population in the mainland, starts to move towards the coast and spread to some nearby islands, trying to find new feeding alternatives.

Colonization

On August 2, 1498 (516 years), Christopher Columbus, and the Spanish colonizers' ships, first landed on the American mainland in what is currently Venezuelan territory. Colonization was rapid despite small local indigenous rebellions, and the Spaniards manage to conquer the territory. During this period, the most significant crossbreeding process took place. One that will later define the social profile of the country.

With the passage of time, and the introduction of the African continent, a third race, the Africans, started to integrate into the population, creating heterogeneity in the faces of the society of the time.

During colonial centuries in Venezuela began to settle the "peninsular whites", coming directly from the Iberian Peninsula and which were those who held positions in the crown, representing only 15% of the population. Another group of whites who were born in Venezuela were originally called "Creole", representing 20% of the population: they were mostly from the Canary Islands and they worked mainly in petty trade. The other two smaller groups were the original inhabitants and indigenous blacks brought from Africa: they were about 5% of the population. Soon the original groups started to have interbreedings and this created a process of "fusion" between the different racial groups: The "brown" were descendants of the unions between Whites, Indians and Blacks and by the 18th century were the largest racial and social group being more than 60% of the population.

This process is currently responsible for the majority of Venezuelans who are of mixed race. This number, however, would continue to decrease after the economic boom in the mid 20th century.

Current ethnic groups

The country has a diverse population that reflects its rich history and the people that have lived here since antiquity to the present. The historic amalgam of different principal groups form the basis of the current demographics of Venezuela: the European immigrants, the Amerindian peoples, African, Asian, Middle Eastern and other recent immigrants.

Many of the indigenous peoples were absorbed by the mixed population, but the remaining 500,000 currently represent more than 85 different cultures.

European immigrants were mainly Spanish colonists, but another large and growing number are descendants of Europeans (Portuguese, Italians, Germans and Americans) who migrated to the region in mid-twentieth century during the oil growth in the country. Small numbers are descendants of French, English and Polish, as they emigrated during World War II and the Cold War.

Black Africans were brought as slaves, mostly coastal lowlands, beginning early in the sixteenth century and continuing into the nineteenth century. Other immigrant populations are Asian and Middle East, particularly Lebanon, Syria and the Arab world, some Jews from southern Spain, Israel and Central European nations, East Asians like Chinese and Japanese, Dominicans, Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Haitians, Cubans, Peruvians, Argentines, Uruguayans, Chileans, Ecuadorians and Colombians, this being the greatest social impact due to a large number of displaced individuals who entered the Venezuelan territory during the armed conflict in that country; which generated a high supply of labor, personnel and domestic economy informal.

Ethnic-somatic characteristics

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Venezuelan people in Canada.
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Boys from Margarita Island, Nueva Esparta.

As of 1981, according to the critic D'Ambrosio and other academics, about 51.6% of Venezuelans are mestizos or mulattos (called Criollos: the 40% of them are with mostly white features, 20% with mostly black features and 10% with mostly Indians features), 45% are white, 2% are black and 1% Indians. According to these scholars, is the fact that virtually there are no pure blacks nor indigenous people in Venezuela. With the exception of direct descendants of immigrants or specific indigenous tribes.

In addition, according to a genetic autosomal DNA study conducted in 2008 by the University of Brasilia (UNB), the composition of the population of Venezuela is: 60.60% European, 23% of Native American contribution and 16% of Africa's contribution. [43]

Demography

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Venezuelans in a protest against the Bolivarian Revolution in São Paulo, Brazil.
Venezuelan diaspora in the world

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The population of approximately 28 million people (in 2011) [44] made Venezuela the sixth-most populous country in Latin America (after Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Peru). Approximately more than one million (4-6% of the total population) are living in other countries. Due to the worsening economic conditions in Venezuela, there are 100,000 Venezuelans living in neighbouring Guyana and larger numbers living in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, the USA, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Chile and Panama. [45]

More than ninety percent of the Venezuelans live in urban areas – a figure significantly higher than the world average. The literacy rate (98 percent) in Venezuela is also well above the world average, and the rate of population growth slightly exceeds the world average. A large proportion of Venezuelans are young, largely because of recent decreases in the infant mortality rate. While 30 percent of the people are 14 years old or younger, just 4 percent are aged 65 or older.

Ethnic groups

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Family in 1961.
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Venezuelan girls dancing.

The country has a diverse population that reflects its colorful history and the peoples that have resided there throughout. The historic amalgam of the different main groups forms the basics of Venezuela's current demographics: European immigrants, Amerindian peoples, Africans, Asians (including the Arabs/West Asians) and other recent immigrants. The autosomal DNA genetic composition of population in Venezuela, is 60.60% of European contribution, 23% of Amerindian contribution, and 16.30% of African contribution. [43]

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Moreno population of Venezuela in 2011.
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White population of Venezuela in 2011.
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Amerindian population of Venezuela in 2011.
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Afro-descendant population of Venezuela in 2011.

Morenos

Many of the indigenous peoples were absorbed into the Moreno population, because of the heavy mixture of European and African people. They represent over half of the country's population (about 51.6%). [46] This proportion is beginning to decrease, though, as mixed lower income Venezuelans are more likely to flee to other South American countries. [47]

Europeans

Early European settlers and post-independence immigrants were mostly Spanish colonists, but a high number of other Europeans brought in were from Portuguese, Italian, and German immigrants to the region in the middle 20th century by the Petroleum Growth, and in much smaller numbers of French, English, Polish, Russian, Greek, Scandinavian, Romanian, Ukrainian and Hungarian communities who immigrated during the Second World War and the Cold War. 300,000 Italians and an equal numbers of Spaniards immigrated in the 1940s and 1950s, and earlier who were fleeing from the Spanish Civil War (1930s).

Up to 95% of Venezuelans live principally in important urban areas like Greater Caracas, Maracaibo, Maracay, Valencia, Lecheria, Barquisimeto/Cabudare, Colonia Tovar, Punto Fijo; the Andean States, Margarita Island and Araya Peninsula. [48] They represent almost half of the population with 43.6% self-identifying as ‘blanco’ (white) in the 2011 census. [46]

Afro-Venezuelans

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Nercely Soto, afro-Venezuelan athlete.

African slaves were brought as slaves, mostly to the coastal lowlands, beginning early in the 16th century, and continuing into the mid 19th century. Although they are located in almost the entire country, the Black and African population are concentrated in places where they used to be slaves and worked as farm hands on subsistence farms of plantains, cocoa, tobacco, sugar cane and cotton in the Aroa Valley, Litoral varguense, Eastern Falcon state; Gibraltar, Bobures and Palmarito in the Sur del Lago Region; and in areas where slaves would run away during Colonial Venezuela and formed cumbes, communities in mountainous and isolated areas, such as, the Sierra de Falcón, Barlovento Region (Acevedo, Andrés Bello, Brión, Buroz and Páez municipalities), Ocumare de La Costa, Choroní; El Callao and Paria Peninsula (where Afro-Trinidadian also migrated); and through Los Llanos, well dispersed in small to decent percents. They represent 3.6% of the population. [46]

Amerindians

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Venezuelan Wayuu family in Zulia.

Before the Spanish colonization of the region that would become the country of Venezuela, the territory was the home to many different indigenous peoples. Today more than fifty different indigenous ethnic groups inhabit Venezuela. Most of them speak languages belonging to the Arawakan, Cariban, and Chibchan languages families. Pure indigenous Amerindians comprise around 2 percent of the population. [49] There are 101 languages listed for Venezuela in the Ethnologue database, of which 80 are spoken today as living languages. Today, they're mostly located south of the Orinoco, in the Guayana Region, an area that covers half of the country but the population represents just 2.7% of Venezuelans; other important regions where they're located are on Zulia state, Apure state, the Eastern Region and Orinoco Delta.

Asians

East and South Asians

The largest sub-groups are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Mainland China, Philippines, India, Japan and Korea. The first wave of immigrants began in 1847 and consisted of mainly Cantonese immigrants; then the second wave during beginning of the 1940s and 1950s, consisted of Chinese and Japanese immigrants; [50] reaching a peak in the mid-1970s in connection with the oil boom, where Korean [51] [52] and Indian immigrants (mostly Indo-Caribbeans) formed a new group to the country. Asian people represent around 1% of the Venezuelan population.

The Chinese in Venezuela are the 4th largest diaspora in the Americas after the United States, Canada and Peru.[ citation needed ]

Arabs/West Asians

Arab immigration to Venezuela started as early as the 19th and 20th centuries. They came mostly from Western Asia, particularly Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. They are mostly located in the most important urban areas and Margarita Island, representing around 5% of the population in Venezuela. [53] In religion, the majority of Arab-Venezuelans are Christians who belong to the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic Churches. There are few Muslims.

Israel has been chosen by many Venezuelan Jews, along with the United States and other countries. [54]

According to the Venezuelan Institute of Statistics, about one million Venezuelans have Syrian origins and more than 20,000 Venezuelans are registered in the Venezuelan Embassy in Damascus. [55] Other sources stated that there is around 60,000 Syrian-Venezuelans living in Syria. [56] More than 200,000 people from the Sweida area carry Venezuelan citizenship and most are members of Syria's Druze sect, who immigrated to Venezuela in the past century. [57]

Religion

Religious affiliation in Venezuela. (2011) [41] [58]
Affiliation% of Venezuela population
Christian 88.388.3
 
Catholic 7171
 
Protestant 1717
 
Mormon 0.30.3
 
Non-Christian faiths2.72.7
 
Jewish 0.050.05
 
Muslim 0.40.4
 
Santería 11
 
Other Non-Christian faiths1.251.25
 
Unaffiliated 99
 
Agnostic/indifferent66
 
Atheist 22
 
Don't know/refused answer11
 
Total100100
 

According to a 2011 poll, 88.3 percent of the population is Christian, primarily Roman Catholic (71%), 17 percent Protestant, and the remaining 0.03 percent Mormons (LDS Church). [59] The Venezuelans without religion are 9% (atheist 2%, agnostic or indifferent 6% and doesn't know/doesn't respond 1% ), almost 3% of the population follow other religions (1% of them are of santeria). [41] [58]

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