Mestizos in Venezuela
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( 15,586,454 51.6% of the Venezuelan population[1][2]) | |||||||||||||||||
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Spanish Venezuelan small minorities speak Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, English and French. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Other Venezuelans, Mestizos, White Venezuelan, Afro-Venezuelan, Amerindian, Spaniards, Pardos, Mestizo Colombian, Latin Americans. | |||||||||||||||||
Mestizo Venezuelans are Venezuelan people who are the result of a mixture of European, Amerindian and African ancestry.
Mestizos in Venezuela amount to 51.6% of the country's population.
According to an autosomal DNA genetic study conducted in 2008 by the University of Brasília (UNB), the composition of Venezuela's gene pool is 60.60% of European contribution, 23% of indigenous contribution, and 16.30% of African contribution.[3]
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References
- ↑ "Resultado Básico del XIV Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2011 (Mayo 2014)" (PDF). Ine.gov.ve. p. 29. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ↑ http://www.ine.gob.ve/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=95&Itemid=26 Venezuelan population by 30/Jun/2014 is 30,206,2307 according National Institute of Stadistics
- ↑ Godinho, Neide Maria de Oliveira (2008). "O impacto das migrações na constituição genética de populações latino-americanas". Universidade de Brasília. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
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