Caribbean people

This article is about people of the Caribbean area or diaspora. For other uses, see Caribbean.

Caribbean people

Total population
c. 45–47 million
Regions with significant populations
Cuba	11 million
Haiti	11 million
Dominican Republic	10 million
Puerto Rico	3.4 million
Jamaica	2.7 million
Trinidad and Tobago	1.3 million
Languages
Mainly Spanish, French, French-based creole languages (Haitian Creole, Antillean Creole), English, English-based creole languages (Jamaican Patois, Bahamian Creole), Papiamento, San Andrés–Providencia Creole Minority Dutch, Caribbean Hindustani
Religion
Predominantly: Christianity Hinduism Islam Minority: Rastafari Buddhism Sikhism Jainism Zoroastrianism Judaism Baháʼí Amerindian religion Afro-American religion Traditional African religions Taoism Confucianism Chinese folk religion Kebatinan Others
Related ethnic groups
Americans, Canadians, Latin Americans

Caribbean people are the people born in or inhabitants of the Caribbean region or people of Caribbean descent living outside the Caribbean. The Caribbean region was initially populated by Amerindians from several different Kalinago and Taino groups. These groups were decimated by a combination of enslavement and disease brought by European colonizers. Descendants of the Taino and Kalinago tribes exist today in the Caribbean and elsewhere but are usually of partial Amerindian ancestry.

Modern Caribbean people usually further identify by their own specific ethnic ancestry, therefore constituting various subgroups, of which are: Afro-Caribbean (largely descendants of bonded African slaves) White Caribbean (largely descendants of European colonizers and some indentured workers) and Indo-Caribbean (largely descendants of jahaji indentured workers).

Culture

Main article: Caribbean culture

• List of Caribbean music genres

See also

• Afro-Caribbean
• British African-Caribbean people
• Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean
• Caribbean region of Colombia
• Indo-Caribbean
• Asian Caribbean
• White Caribbean
• West Indian