Editing Montserrat (section)

=== Ethnic groups ===
Residents of Montserrat are known as Montserratians. The population is predominantly, but not exclusively, of mixed African-Irish descent.<ref name="freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com">{{cite web |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dgarvey/Garvey_us_census/Montserrat.html |title=How Irish is Montserrat? (The Black Irish) |first=Brian |last=McGinn |website=[[RootsWeb.com]] |access-date=5 April 2014 |archive-date=9 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709220425/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dgarvey/Garvey_us_census/Montserrat.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It is not known with certainty how many African slaves and indentured Irish labourers were brought to the West Indies, though according to one estimate some 60,000 Irish were "Barbadosed" by [[Oliver Cromwell]],<ref name="yale.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/glc/tangledroots/Barbadosed.htm |title=Barbadosed: Africans and Irish in Barbados |website=Tangled Roots |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208021534/http://www.yale.edu/glc/tangledroots/Barbadosed.htm |archive-date=8 December 2014}}</ref> some of whom would have arrived in Montserrat.

Data published by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] indicates the ethnic group mix as follows (2011 est.):<ref name="cia.gov"/>

:88.4%: African/black 
:{{0}}3.7%: mixed 
:{{0}}3.0%: Hispanic/Spanish (of any race, including white)
:{{0}}2.7%: non-Hispanic Caucasian/white 
:{{0}}1.5%: [[Indo-Caribbean|East Indian/Indian]]
:{{0}}0.7%: other
As of 2018 the statistics were estimated at:<ref name=":4" />

* African/Black 86.2%, 
* mixed 4.8%
* Hispanic/Spanish 3%
* Caucasian/White 2.7%
* East Indian/Indian 1.6%
* other 1.8%