Editing Puerto Ricans (section)

==Overview==
{{Main|Demographics of Puerto Rico}}
The culture held in common by most Puerto Ricans is referred to as a [[Western culture]] largely derived from the traditions of [[Spain]], and more specifically [[Andalusia]] and the [[Canary Islands]].  Puerto Rico has also received immigration from other parts of Spain such as Catalonia as well as from other European countries such as France, Ireland, Italy and Germany. Puerto Rico has also been influenced by [[Culture of Africa|African culture]], with many Puerto Ricans partially descended from Africans, though [[Afro-Puerto Rican]]s of unmixed African descent are only a significant minority. Also present in today's Puerto Ricans are traces (about 10-15%) of the aboriginal [[Taíno]] natives that inhabited the island at the time European colonizers arrived in 1493.<ref>[Puerto Rico is a melting pot of cultures -- Taíno (Native Indian), Spanish, African, and North American. ''How Ancient DNA Can Help Recast Colonial History: The people of pre-colonial Puerto Rico did not disappear entirely—a new study shows that the island’s residents still carry bits of their DNA.''] The Atlantic. Ed Yong. September 18, 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2021.</ref><ref>[https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/indigenous-puerto-rico-dna-evidence-upsets-established-history ''Indigenous Puerto Rico: DNA evidence upsets established history: DNA evidence shows that most Puerto Ricans are a blending of Taino (Indian), Spanish and African according to studies by Dr. Juan Martinez-Cruzado.''] Rick Kearns  Updated: Sep 13, 2018. Original: Sep 6, 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2021.</ref> Recent studies in population genetics have concluded that Puerto Rican gene pool is on average predominantly European, with a significant Sub-Saharan African, North African [[Guanches|Guanche]], and Indigenous American substrate, the latter two originating in the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico's pre-Columbian [[Taíno]] inhabitants, respectively.<ref name="archive.org1">{{cite web|url=http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/amazonasfilm/2009/7/12/un-estudio-del-genoma-taino-y-guanche-adn-o-dna-primera-parte|title=La Comunidad » DOCUMENTALES GRATIS » UN ESTUDIO DEL GENOMA TAINO Y GUANCHE. ADN o DNA. Primera parte|date=February 6, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206133647/http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/amazonasfilm/2009/7/12/un-estudio-del-genoma-taino-y-guanche-adn-o-dna-primera-parte|archive-date=February 6, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/reference-populations/|journal=The Genographic Project|title=Your Regional Ancestry: Reference Populations|access-date=October 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227020449/https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/reference-populations/|archive-date=February 27, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tang|first1=Hua|last2=Choudhry|first2=Shweta|last3=Mei|first3=Rui|last4=Morgan|first4=Martin|last5=Rodríguez-Clintron|first5=William|last6=González Burchard|first6=Esteban|last7=Risch|first7=Neil|title=Recent Genetic Selection in the Ancestral Admixture of Puerto Ricans|journal=The American Journal of Human Genetics|date=August 1, 2007|volume=81 | issue = 3 |pages=626–633|doi=10.1086/520769 |pmid=17701908 |pmc=1950843}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Via|first1=Mark|last2=Gignoux|first2=Christopher R.|last3=Roth|first3=Lindsey|last4=Fejerman|first4=Laura|last5=Galander|first5=Joshua|last6=Choudhry|first6=Shweta|last7=Toro-Labrador|first7=Gladys|last8=Viera-Vera|first8=Jorge|last9=Oleksyk|first9=Taras K.|last10=Beckman|first10=Kenneth|last11=Ziv|first11=Elad|last12=Risch|first12=Neil|last13=González Burchard|first13=Esteban|last14=Nartínez-Cruzado|first14=Juan Carlos|title=History Shaped the Geographic Distribution of Genomic Admixture on the Island of Puerto Rico|journal= PLOS ONE|volume= 6|issue=1|pages= e16513|doi= 10.1371/journal.pone.0016513|pmid=21304981|pmc=3031579|year=2011|bibcode=2011PLoSO...616513V|doi-access=free}}
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The population of Puerto Ricans and descendants is estimated to be between 8 and 10 million worldwide, with most living on the islands of Puerto Rico and in the United States mainland. Within the United States, Puerto Ricans are present in all states of the Union, and the states with the largest populations of Puerto Ricans relative to the national population of Puerto Ricans in the United States at large are the states of [[New York (state)|New York]], [[Florida]], [[New Jersey]], and [[Pennsylvania]], with large populations also in [[Massachusetts]], [[Connecticut]], [[California]], [[Illinois]], and [[Texas]].<ref name="2010 Census">{{cite news | title=2010 Census | publisher=Medgar Evers College | url=http://2010.census.gov/partners/materials/factsheets-pr.php | access-date=2010-04-13 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611082314/http://2010.census.gov/partners/materials/factsheets-pr.php | archive-date=2010-06-11 }}</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20200212055907/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_SF1_QTP10&prodType=table US Census Bureau: Table QT-P10 Hispanic or Latino by Type: 2010] Retrieved March 25, 2012 - select state from drop-down menu</ref>

For 2009,<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US72&-qr_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_DP2PR&-context=adp&-ds_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_&-tree_id=307&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-format=] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200210210602/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US72&-qr_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_DP2PR&-context=adp&-ds_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_&-tree_id=307&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-format=|date=February 10, 2020}}</ref> the [[American Community Survey]] estimates give a total of 3,859,026 Puerto Ricans classified as "Native" Puerto Ricans. It also gives a total of 3,644,515 (91.9%) of the population being born in Puerto Rico and 201,310 (5.1%) born in the United States. The total population born outside Puerto Rico is 322,773 (8.1%). Of the 108,262 who were foreign born outside the United States (2.7% of Puerto Ricans), 92.9% were born in Latin America, 3.8% in Europe, 2.7% in Asia, 0.2% in [[Northern America]], and 0.1% in Africa and [[Oceania]] each.<ref name="U.S ACS Puerto Rico 2008">[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US72&-context=adp&-ds_name=ACS_2008_1YR_G00_&-tree_id=307&-_lang=en&-_caller=geoselect&-format=] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606042041/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US72&-context=adp&-ds_name=ACS_2008_1YR_G00_&-tree_id=307&-_lang=en&-_caller=geoselect&-format=|date=June 6, 2011}}</ref>