Uruguayans

Uruguayans
Uruguayos
Total population
c. 4 million[a]
Regions with significant populations
 Uruguay 3,444,263 (2023 Census)[1]
Diaspora totalc. 630,000[2]
 Argentina117,564[3]
 Spain83,601[4]
 Brazil50,512[5]
 United States48,234[6]
 Australia10,000[7]
 France10,859[8]
 Canada7,660[9]
 Chile6,116 (2021)[10]
 Italy1,170[11]
 Israel6,202
 Mexico3,309
 Colombia1,000
Languages
Primarily Spanish
Portuguese (minority)
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism;[12] Significant minority:Irreligion[13]
Related ethnic groups
Other South Americans
(especially Argentines)

a. ^ The total figure is merely an estimation; sum of all the referenced populations.

Uruguayans (Spanish: uruguayos) are people identified with the country of Uruguay, through citizenship or descent. Uruguay is home to people of different ethnic origins. As a result, many Uruguayans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and their allegiance to Uruguay. Colloquially, primarily among other Spanish-speaking Latin American nations, Uruguayans are also referred to as "orientals [as in Easterners]" (Spanish: orientales).

Uruguay is, along with much of the Americas, a melting pot of different peoples, with the difference that it has traditionally maintained a model that promotes cultural assimilation, hence the different cultures have been absorbed by the mainstream. Uruguay has one of the most homogeneous populations in South America; the most common ethnic backgrounds by far being those from Spain, Italy, Germany and France i.e. Spanish Uruguayans, Italian Uruguayans, German Uruguayans, French Uruguayans and Polish Uruguayans.

  1. ^ "Población en Uruguay aumentó 1%: se contabiliza en 3.444.263 habitantes". Uruguay Presidencia (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Uruguay - Emigrantes totales". datosmacro.com. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Argentina 2001 Census" (PDF). Indec.gov.ar. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
  4. ^ "Población por comunidades y provincias, país de nacimiento, edad (grupos quinquenales) y sexo". www.ine.es. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Imigrantes internacionais registrados no Brasil". www.nepo.unicamp.br. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Table 5. Detailed Hispanic Origin: 2007". Pewhispanic.org. 15 August 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Global Migration Map: Origins and Destinations, 1990-2017".
  8. ^ "Uruguay- Emigrantes totales 2019". datosmacro.com.
  9. ^ "Canada Census Profile 2021". Census Profile, 2021 Census. Statistics Canada Statistique Canada. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  10. ^ "Estimaciones de extranjeros". extranjeria. 31 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Uruguaiani in Italia 2022". www.tuttitalia.it.
  12. ^ The Latin American Socio-Religious Studies Program / Programa Latinoamericano de Estudios Sociorreligiosos (PROLADES) PROLADES Religion in America by country
  13. ^ "Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) - Instituto Nacional de Estadística".

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