While in Puerto Rico slavery was 2 % of the population and blacks were less than 11 %, Cuba was 30 % black and slaves wee the backbone of the plantation economy.

About 5 % of the population is of Hispanic origin, regardless of race, primarily from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

Among the Hispanic population, 6. 8 % are Mexican, 0. 5 % Puerto Rican, 0. 4 % Salvadoran, 0. 3 % Peruvian, 0. 3 % Guatemalan.

The population of white-grubs dramatically decreased, and this was attributed to the cane toad at the annual meeting of the International Sugar Cane Technologists in Puerto Rico.

1932 was not a good year for Republican candidates like LaGuardia, and the 20th Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population to a Puerto Rican population.

Most of the population is concentrated on the northern and eastern coast of this island where Calapan and Puerto Galera are located.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Puerto Rico, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

U. S. citizens residing in Puerto Rico are counted in the decennial population census and in some other demographic studies carried out by the U. S. Census Bureau, but are not included in the national totals since Puerto Rico is only a territory of the US.

Transportation in Puerto Rico includes a system of roads, highways, freeways, airports, ports and harbors, and railway systems, serving a population of approximately 4 million inhabitants year-round.

The Hispanic population is predominantly of Puerto Rican descent, while Dominicans make up most of the remainder.

Puerto Ricans made up the largest portion of Latinos, with 2. 9 % of the total county population.

Among the Hispanic population, 18. 1 % are Mexican, 1. 9 % Salvadoran, 1. 3 % Guatemalan, and 0. 7 % Puerto Rican.

72. 76 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race ; most are of Mexican descent ( due to the proximity of the border ), but there are also few numbers of Central and South Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans etc.

18. 5 % of the population was foreign born and another 1. 1 % was born in Puerto Rico, U. S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent ( s ).

7. 7 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino, with Puerto Ricans being the majority of the population.

By population, it ranks 23rd, having fewer inhabitants than Sicily or Singapore, but more than Puerto Rico or Negros.

43. 2 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, majority of which are Puerto Ricans, who account for 25. 0 % of the population and are the largest ancestral group in the county.

Puerto Ricans, who also commonly refer to themselves as " boricuas ", are largely the descendants of Europeans, Taíno, Africans or a blend of these groups which has produced a very diversified population.

What is now the eastern portion of Chinatown just east of The Bowery, which is considered the Lower East Side was still not as fully developed as being part of Chinatown and it was a mixed ethnic neighborhood population of Chinese Cantonese, Jewish, Italians, Puerto Ricans, African Americans and a small significant number of early Chinese Fuzhou immigrants were already in existence there including Fuzhou gang groups.

Puerto Ricans by themselves made up 18. 7 % of the population and were by far the largest Hispanic group.

Campbell is home to the majority of Youngstown's Greek-American population, including other middle-class ethnic Americans, such as Croatians, Czechs, Slovaks, Italians, and Puerto Ricans.

As all Puerto Ricans are natural-born U. S. citizens, many Puerto Ricans have migrated to New York City, increasing its Spanish-speaking population.

The population grew dramatically at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, through immigration from western, eastern and southern Europe, as well as the Great Migration of blacks from the rural South and Puerto Ricans from the Caribbean, all attracted to the city's expanding industrial jobs.

Within the Hispanic population, the vast majority are Puerto Ricans, though other groups include Dominicans and Mexicans.

Costa Ricans under the impression that cholera was acquired on " ill-aired " locations fled from Rivas taking the water-borne disease into the country causing the death of 10 % of the population.

It is made up of first and second generation Puerto Ricans, African-Americans, Italians and a growing population of Mexicans, West Indians, Dominicans, Asians and Central American immigrants.

About 8 % of the population is of Black African descent or Mulatto ( mix of European and black ) who are called Afro-Costa Ricans, English-speaking descendants of 19th century black Jamaican immigrant workers.

It has a diverse population of students, including Egyptian Americans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans, and Filipino Americans.

Examples would be East Los Angeles near L. A. ( Mexican and Chicano ) as the heart of Los Angeles County's large Hispanic population, the Spanish Harlem ( Puerto Ricans ) section in Manhattan, New York City ; and Pilsen, Chicago in Chicago has one of the US ' largest Latino communities.

Quakers still form a considerable population alongside an increasing number of Costa Ricans

Although it was created by Puerto Ricans, most factions of the gang are now dominated by Mexicans, specifically in the Midwest — including Chicago, the city with the second largest Mexican population in the United States.

Puerto Ricans make up 12. 6 % of the population and Mexicans make up 8. 6 % of the population.

The neighborhood has a relatively diverse population consisting primarily of Latin Americans, predominantly Puerto Ricans ( Melrose has one of the highest concentrations of Puerto Ricans in all of New York City ).

A clade is by definition monophyletic, meaning it contains one ancestor ( which can be an organism, a population, or a species ) and all its descendants.

The Maritimes also have a black population who are mostly descendants of African American loyalists or refugees from the War of 1812, largely concentrated in Nova Scotia but also in various communities throughout southern New Brunswick, Cape Breton ( where the black population is largely of West Indian descent ), and Prince Edward Island.

Thus the modern population of Hungary do not feel that they belong in the Western Siberia that the Hungarian Magyars left 12 centuries ago ; and the English descendants of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes do not yearn to reoccupy the plains of Northwest Germany.

This population and their descendants were major influences on the culture of English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish New World colonies.

They are the descendants of economic migrants that came to Gibraltar after the majority of the Spanish population left in 1704.

The situation is further complicated by the fact that parts of the current Polish population in historical eastern Germany are themselves expellees ( or descendants of expellees ) who were expelled from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union and were forced to leave their homes and property behind as well.

The Church remains a crucial focus of communal life among some of the immigrant population and their descendants.

Today there are an estimated 700, 000 people of Irish ancestry in Argentina, approximately 15. 5 % of the Republic of Ireland's current population ; however, these numbers may be far higher, given that many Irish newcomers declared themselves to be British, as Ireland at the time was still part of the United Kingdom and today their descendants integrated into Argentine society with mixed bloodlines.

A feral cat population, descendants of cats brought by guano miners, wrought disruption to the island's wildlife and vegetation since the 1930s.

While Western Pomerania was being the Germanized, the Germans ( both colonizers and Germanized descendants of Slavic Pomeranians ) started using the words “ Pomeranian ” ( German: Pommersch ; Polish: pomorski ) and “ Pomeranians ” ( German: Pommern ; Polish: Pomorzacy ) referring to their own population.

This English-speaking population in America did not all consist of original colonists, since many returned to England shortly after arriving on the continent, but produced more than 16 million descendants.

After 1836, many were allowed to stay on and their descendants became integrated into the population.

At least 13 % of the population were immigrants from other parts of Former Yugoslavia and their descendants.

The population of Sudan is a combination of indigenous inhabitants of Nile Valley, and descendants of migrants from the Arabian Peninsula.

An 1878 letter documents the " Trouvadore Africans " and their descendants as constituting an essential part of the " labouring population " on the islands.

Their descendants constitute 85 percent of the Bahamian population.

By 2002, these Jews and their descendants constituted about 40 % of Israel's population.

The city is home to significant numbers of all of the country's ethnic groups, although it is the primary home of the Sierra Leone Creole people ( descendants of Liberated Africans, African-Americans and West Indians ) who make up the minority of the population in the city.

Most of the slaves liberated by the squadron chose to settle in Sierra Leone, and Freetown in particular, rather than return home ; thus the population included descendants of many different peoples from all over the west coast of Africa.

The Astrakhan Tatars ( around 80, 000 ) are a group of Tatars, descendants of the Astrakhan Khanate's nomadic population, who live mostly in Astrakhan Oblast.

Other small ethnic groups that make up the 12 % of the white population are descendants of Swiss, Italian, Syrian, Turks, Jews ( Mostly Sephardic ), and the Palestinian ( who migrated in order to escape Christian persecution from the Muslim community of the West Bank ).

Use of the patronymic system is required by law, except for the descendants of those who had acquired family names before 1913 ( about 10 % of the population ).

In the beginning of 2012, people of foreign background and their descendants were estimated to have formed 25 % of the total population.

Immigrants and their U. S .- born descendants are expected to provide most of the U. S. population gains in the decades ahead.