People from Puerto Rico or who identify culturally as Puerto Rican
This article is about the broad category of people from Puerto Rico. For stateside people of Puerto Rican origin, see Stateside Puerto Ricans.
Puerto Ricans
Puertorriqueños
Boricuas · Borinqueños · Borincanos · Puertorros
Total population
Puerto Ricans: ~9 million Diaspora: ~6 million[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
Puerto Rico (2022)
3,075,871[3]
United States (2022)
5,905,178[4]
U.S. Virgin Islands (2020)
7,759[5]
Dominican Republic (2015)
6,083[6]
Canada (2016)
3,405[7]
Mexico (2000)
1,970[8]
Venezuela (2001)
528[9]
Netherlands (2019)
241[10]
Languages
Spanish
English
Spanglish
Religion
Catholicism[11]
Protestantism
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Chinese
Corsican
Criollos
French
German
Irish
Italian
Jewish
Maltese
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Puerto Ricans (Spanish: Puertorriqueños), most commonly known as Boricuas, and also referred to as Borinqueños,Borincanos,[a][12] or Puertorros,[b][13] are the people of Puerto Rico, the inhabitants and citizens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and their descendants, including those in mainland United States.
^"Nevada and Idaho Are the Nation's Fastest-Growing States". United States Census Bureau. December 19, 2018. Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
^"Cumulative Population Change: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2017 for Puerto Rico". United States Census Bureau. July 1, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
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^"B03001 HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY SPECIFIC ORIGIN - United States - 2022 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". U.S. Census Bureau. July 1, 2022. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
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^El panorama de la migración en República Dominicana: Cuadro 2.4. Los Haitianos son el principal grupo de inmigrantes
^"2016 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations". 2.statcan.ca. April 2, 2011. Archived from the original on April 22, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
^Los extranjeros en México Archived February 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^Estadísticas Venezuela
^"Bevolking; geslacht, leeftijd, generatie en migratieachtergrond". Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (in Dutch). January 1, 2019. Archived from the original on May 7, 2022. Retrieved April 19, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^"Key findings about Puerto Rico". March 29, 2017.
^ "puertorriqueño". Diccionario de la Lengua Española por la Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved January 19, 2024.
^ "puertorro". Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española: Diccionario de Americanismos (in Spanish). Retrieved January 19, 2024.
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refer to PuertoRicans or Puerto Rico. It is occasionally mistaken for a pejorative, but the term is not considered offensive by PuertoRicans. It has...
territorial status has not satisfied PuertoRican political leaders, and (2) that despite the divergent views that PuertoRicans have with respect to their preferred...
stateside PuertoRicans have knowledge of Spanish. Opposite to island-born PuertoRicans who primarily speak Spanish, many stateside-born PuertoRicans primarily...
White PuertoRicans are PuertoRicans who self-identify as white due to a rubric of laws like the Regla del Sacar or Gracias al Sacar dating back to the...
approved Jones–Shafroth Act which gave PuertoRicans in Puerto Rico U.S. citizenship with certain limitations. PuertoRicans living in the mainland United States...
which established a civil government and free trade between Puerto Rico and the USA. PuertoRicans, although incapable of electing members of the territory's...
uprisings of people in Ciales, San Germán and Sabana Grande in 1898. Many PuertoRicans became inspired by the ideals of Simón Bolívar to liberate South America...
domestic PuertoRican laws which did not conflict with the United States Constitution remained in force. The Jones Act of 1917, which made PuertoRicans U.S...
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modernized form of Cuban/PuertoRican-style dance music that was cultivated and rearticulated starting in the late 1960s by PuertoRicans in New York City and...
provided that PuertoRican women who had been denationalized because of marriage prior to March 2, 1917, the date upon which PuertoRicans were extended...
limitations, to the PuertoRican residents in Puerto Rico but excluded those who resided in Hawaii. Yet, the "non-citizen" PuertoRicans were assigned draft...
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The PuertoRican Independence Party (Spanish: Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, PIP) is a social-democratic political party in Puerto Rico that...
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which has been the predominant and primary language for the majority of PuertoRicans as 94.3% of the entire population speak Spanish as their native language...
the PuertoRican flag along with La Borinqueña, the official anthem of Puerto Rico, for the first time on July 25, 1952—date in which PuertoRicans celebrate...
Italian PuertoRicans (Italian: italo-portoricani; Spanish: ítalo-puertorriqueños) are PuertoRican-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian...
Management Board for Puerto Rico to manage the island's chronic, crippling debt. The Board, infamously known by protesting PuertoRicans as “La Junta,” has...
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