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Costa Rica's population, (1961–2003). In 2021, Costa Rica had a population of 5,153,957. The population is increasing at a rate of 1.5% per year. According to current trends, the population will increase to 9,158,000 in about 46 years. [11] The population density is 94 people per square km, the third highest in Central America.
Costa Rica: By ethnicity Whites and Mestizo (83.6%), Mulatto (6.7%), Native Costa Rican (2.4%), Afro–Costa Ricans (1.1%), other (4%), unspecified (2.2%) (2011 estimate) [3] Cuba: By ethnicity Whites (64.1%), Mulattos (26.6%), Afro-Cubans (9.3%) (2012 census) [3] Croatia: By ethnicity
Today, according to modern DNA test data, the average Costa Rican (with 4 Costa Rican grand-parents) from the Central Valley is around 69–85% European, mainly Spanish, Basque, or Portuguese, with around 15–30% Native American DNA from Central America, Colombia, or Venezuelam, and 1–10% African particularly from Cameroon, Senegal or Congo.
European migrants used Costa Rica to get across the isthmus of Central America as well to reach the Californian coast in the late-19th and early-20th centuries prior to the opening of the Panama Canal. Other European ethnic groups known to live in Costa Rica include Russians, Danes, Belgians, Portuguese, Croats, and Hungarians. Nicaragua
Costa Rican culture has been heavily influenced by Spanish culture ever since the Spanish colonization of the Americas including the territory which today forms Costa Rica. Parts of the country have other strong cultural influences, including the Caribbean province of Limón and the Cordillera de Talamanca which are influenced by Jamaican ...
Indigenous people of Costa Rica, or Native Costa Ricans, are the people who lived in what is now Costa Rica prior to European and African contact and the descendants of those peoples. About 114,000 indigenous people live in the country, comprising 2.4% of the total population. [ 1 ]
Most of the 3,500 Costa Rican Jews today are not highly observant, but they remain largely endogamous. [165] A study done in Costa Rica, in the province of Guanacaste, revealed that the average genetic admixture was 45% European, 33% indigenous, 14.6% black and 5.8% Asian. [166]
Costa Rican people of Salvadoran descent (1 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 3 March 2024, at 09:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...