Global InformationPeople of the Dominican Republic information
 Map of the Dominican people around the world | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 14 million Diaspora 2.5 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Dominican Republic | 9,341,916 (2017)[1][2] |
 United States | 2,393,718 (2021)[3][4] |
 Spain | 190,190 (2021 census)[5][6] |
 Puerto Rico | 54,025 (2021)[7][8] |
 Italy | 48,000 (2020)(28,812 as 2022)[8] |
 Canada | 23,130[9] |
 Chile | 19,481 (2021)[10] |
 Venezuela | 14,743 (2015)[11] |
 Switzerland | 11,154[12] |
 Germany | 11,091 (2015)[11] |
 United Kingdom | 10,000[13] |
 Netherlands | 8,688 (2015)[11] |
 Panama | 8,095 (2015)[11] |
 Curaçao | 7,000[8] |
 Aruba | 5,000[8] |
 U.S. Virgin Islands | 5,442[14][8] |
 Sint Maarten | 4,000[8] |
 France | 3,843 (2019)[15] |
 Belgium | 3,000[8] |
 Mexico | 2,849 (2020)[16] |
 Austria | 2,942[17] |
 Turks and Caicos Islands | 2,000[8] |
 British Virgin Islands | 2,000[8] |
 Antigua and Barbuda | 2,000[8] |
 Haiti | 2,000[8] |
| Languages | |
| Dominican Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholic;[18] Protestant | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Spaniards, other Latin Americans | |
Dominicans (Spanish: Dominicanos) are an ethno-national people, a people of shared ancestry and culture, who have ancestral roots in the Dominican Republic.[19][20] The Dominican ethnic group was born out of a fusion of European (mainly Spanish), native Taino, and African elements, which is an ethnic fusion that goes back to the 16th century.[19][21] Due to this fusion, the majority of Dominicans are of mixed-race heritage,[22][23] tracing roots mainly to these three sources with the vast majority being of[24] predominant European ancestry.[25] The demonym Dominican can be traced as far back as the 1621. The name came from Santo Domingo, which was not only the name of the capital city but also of the entire island at the time, Spain used this term to refer to the inhabitants of Spanish province of Santo Domingo.[26][27] Recent immigrants and their children, who are legal citizens of the Dominican Republic, can be considered "Dominican" by nationality but not ethnicity due to not having ancestral roots in the country.
"Dominican" was historically the name for the inhabitants of the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, the site of the first Spanish settlement in the Western Hemisphere. The majority of Dominicans primarily trace their origin to the Captaincy General's European settlers, with native Taino and African influences.[28]
The majority of Dominicans reside in the Dominican Republic, while there is also a large Dominican diaspora, mainly in the United States and Spain. The total population of the Dominican Republic in 2016 was estimated by the National Bureau of Statistics of the Dominican Republic at 10.2 million, with 9.3 million of those being natives of the country, and the rest being of foreign origin.[2] The country has a right of blood citizenship law.
- ^ https://dominicanrepublic.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Resumen%20Ejecutivo%20ENI-2017_FINAL.pdf#page=48
- ^ a b Segunda Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes en la República Dominicana [ENI-2017] - Versión resumida del Informe General [Second National Survey of Immigrants in the Dominican Republic [ENI-2017] - Summary version of the General Report] (PDF) (Report) (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Oficina Nacional de Estadística. June 2017. p. 48. ISBN 978-9945-015-17-1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-06-04. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
- ^ https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2021.B03001?q=Hispanic+or+Latino&g=010XX00US
- ^ US Census Bureau. "Hispanic or Latino Origin by Specific Origin".
- ^ "Población por comunidades y provincias, país de nacimiento, edad (Grupos quinquenales) y sexo". Archived from the original on 2021-01-30. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ^ "El Nuevo Diario - Los dominicanos en el exterior". [permanent dead link]
- ^ https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2022.B03001?q=Hispanic+or+Latino&g=040XX00US72
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "International Migrant Stock 2020 (Destination and origin)" (XLSX). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. 2021-01-15. Tab "Table 1"; Column F (origin) "Dominican Republic"; Column B (destinations); Data for 2020 is in Column N. Archived from the original on 2021-11-18. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- The web page which contains link to this file: "International Migrant Stock 2020". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Canada, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 2019-02-20. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ "Estimaciones de extranjeros". Extranjeria. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
- ^ a b c d "The Dominican Republic's migration landscape" (PDF). www.oecd-ilibrary.org. 2017. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
- ^ "República Dominicana - Emigrantes totales 2017". Archived from the original on 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
- ^ "Otros Servicios - Embassy of the Dominican Republic". 22 August 2016.
- ^ https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALDPVI2020.DP1?g=040XX00US78&d=DECIA+U.S.+Virgin+Islands+Demographic+Profile
- ^ "República Dominicana - Emigrantes totales". expansion.com/ Datosmacro.com.
- ^ "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020". INEGI (in Spanish).
- ^ AUSTRIA, STATISTIK. "Bevölkerungsstruktur". www.statistik.at. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
- ^ "Central America :: Dominican Republic — The World Factbook". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
- ^ a b Montinaro, Francesco; et al. (24 March 2015). "Unravelling the hidden ancestry of American admixed populations". Nature Communications. 6. See Supplementary Data. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.6596M. doi:10.1038/ncomms7596. PMC 4374169. PMID 25803618.
- ^ https://agrarianstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/colloqpapers/06turits.pdf
- ^ "Search | Refworld".
- ^ https://thedominicans.org/2019/01/11/ancestry-dna-results-dominicans-are-spaniards-mixed-with-africans-and-tainos/
- ^ "Dominicans are 49% Black, 39% White and 4% Indian".
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Acerca del gentilicio de los dominicanos". 8 September 2012.
- ^ https://litteranova.com/2018/07/29/el-gentilicio-dominicano/
- ^ Esteva Fabregat, Claudio «La hispanización del mestizaje cultural en América» Revista Complutense de Historia de América, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. p. 133 (1981)