Editing Demographics of Honduras (section)

== Ethnic groups ==
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| label1 = [[Mestizo]] (mixed Amerindian,European and African)
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| label2 = [[Amerindian]]s
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=== Amerindian ===
The Amerindian population is the largest minority group in Honduras. The largest Amerindian group are the Lencan people. These people have been living in Honduran territory since before the [[European colonization of the Americas|colonization of the Americas]], developing their own societies and civilizations. They still have many communities across the country. The indigenous population would begin to decline from the mid-16th century, mainly due to the various diseases brought by the Europeans in addition to the growing mestizo population after the founding of towns and cities. According to the 2001 census the [[Amerindian]] population in Honduras included 381,495 people (6.3% of the total population).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicef.org/lac/HONDURAS_revisado.pdf|title=Atlas sociolingüístico de Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina Fichas nacionales|website=UNICEF|access-date=29 August 2017|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205428/http://www.unicef.org/lac/HONDURAS_revisado.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> With the exception of the Lenca and the Ch'orti' they still keep their language.

Six different [[Amerindian]] groups were counted at the 2001 census:
* the [[Lenca people|Lenca]] (279,507 in 2001;4.6% of the total population) living in the La Paz, Intibucá, and Lempira departments;
* the [[Miskito people|Miskito]] (51,607 in 2001; 0.8%) living on the northeast coast along the border with [[Nicaragua]].
* the [[Ch'orti' people|Ch'orti']] (34,453 in 2001;0.6% of the total population), a Mayan group living in the northwest on the border with Guatemala;
* the [[Tolupan people|Tolupan]] (also called Jicaque, "Xicaque", or Tol; 9,617 in 2001; 0.2% of the total population), living in the reserve of the Montaña de la Flor and parts of the department of Yoro;
* the [[Pech people|Pech]] or Paya Indians (3,848 in 2001; 0.1% of the total population) living in a small area in the Olancho department;
* the [[Mayangna]] or Tawahka (2,463 in 2001; <0.1%) 
Examples of Honduran natives are the many Mayan rules of Copan and other Mayan cities, native chiefs such as [[Lempira (Lenca ruler)|Lempira]] and Cicumba, and environmental and feminist activist [[Berta Cáceres]].
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Yax Kuk Mo.jpg|Copan founder, king Knich Yax Kuk Moo
Copán Stela N.jpg|Mayan ruler, Kʼakʼ Yipyaj Chan Kʼawiil
Lempira.jpg|Lencan ruler, Lempira
Berta Cáceres (cropped).jpg|Lencan environmental activist, Berta Cáceres
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=== Mestizos ===
[[Mestizos]] (meaning mixed European and Amerindian) have been reported by the [[CIA World Factbook]] to be about 87% of the population of Honduras.<ref name="CIA Factbook"/> As in other Latin American countries, the question of racial breakdown of a national population is contentious. Since the beginning of the 20th century at least, Honduras has publicly framed itself as a mestizo nation, along with other Latin American countries such as [[Guatemala]] or Mexico, ignoring and at times disparaging both the European component of the population and the surviving Amerindian population that was still regarded as "pure blooded". It's well known that many Hondurans of European or almost entirely Amerindian background consider themselves mestizo.<ref name="Dario Euraque 2003 pp. 229-49">Dario Euraque, "The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana Economy, 1920s and 1930s," in Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds. ''Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas'' (Duke University Press, 2003), pp. 229–49.</ref><ref>Dario Euraque, "Antropólogos, archaeólogos, imperialismo y la mayanicación de Honduras, 1890–1940," ''Revista Historia'' 45 (2002): 73–103</ref>

Because of social stigmas attached, many Honduran people denied having African ancestry, and after African descended Caribbean workers arrived in Honduras, an active campaign to denigrate all people of African descent, made persons of mixed race anxious to deny any African ancestry. Hence official statistics quite uniformly under-represent those people who have ancestry in favor of a "two race" solution.<ref name="Dario Euraque 2003 pp. 229-49"/>

Examples of Honduran mestizos are, Poet [[Clementina Suárez|Clementina Suarez]], novelist and poet [[Roberto Sosa (poet)|Roberto Sosa]], footballer [[Noel Valladares]] and former president [[Manuel Zelaya]].
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File:José Trinidad Reyes2.PNG|Jose Trinidad Reyes, Founder of the National University
File:Rigobertoparedes.jpg|Writer and poet, Rigoberto Paredes.
File:Roberto Sosa.jpg|Novelist, Roberto Sosa
File:NoelValladares.jpg|Footballer, [[Noel Valladares|Noél Valladares]] 
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=== African ===
{{Further|Afro-Honduran}}

The Afro-Honduran population consist of people of African descent, [[Garifuna people|Garifuna]] and [[Creole peoples|Creoles]]. Most of them are descendants of African people brought by the Spanish and other European colonizers between the 16th and 18th centuries. Many of them came from the west African coast, from places like [[Angola]] or [[Senegambia]], where European bought slaves for their colonies, while others came from the other colonies in the [[Caribbean]].  
* The Garifuna are descendants of [[Island Caribs|Carib]], [[Arawaks|Arawak]], and West [[Native ethnic groups of Africa|African]] people. This ethnic group has its origins in a group from St. Vincent islands in the Caribbean, who came in 1797. At the 2001 census 46,448 people were registered as Garifuna, 0.8% of the total population of Honduras.<ref name=":0" /> The Garifuna speak an [[Arawakan language]]. They live along the entire Caribbean coastline of Honduras, and in the Bay Islands.
* The number of Creoles was 12,370 (0.2%) in 2001.

Examples of well-known Afro-Hondurans are footballers [[David Suazo]], [[Víctor Bernárdez|Victor "Muma" Bernardez]], Dr. Emet Cherefant, and [[Wilson Palacios]].
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David Suazo photo by Djuradj Vujcic.jpg|Footballer, David Suazo
Wilson Palacios Spurs 2009.jpg|Footballer, Wilson Palacios
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=== European ===
Honduras of European descent or White Hondurans, along with Afro-descendants and Amerindians belong to the minorities of Honduras. Most of the white population are descendants of the Spanish settlers, who mainly came from southern Spain, and inhabit most of the western part of the country. Other populations include descendants of European immigrants who arrived at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2014, there were about 14,000 [[Italian Hondurans|Hondurans of Italian descent]], while there were around 400 Italian citizens.<ref name="El Heraldo, 2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.elheraldo.hn/pais/575489-214/29-mil-extranjeros-viven-el-sueno-hondureno|publisher=El Heraldo|title=29 mil extranjeros viven el sueño hondureño|date=7 April 2014|access-date=7 March 2021|language=it}}</ref> Percentages of whites varied between 2.1% and 7%,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-21 |title=Honduras {{!}} Map, Population, History, Geography, & Culture {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Honduras |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> due to the fact that the majority of [[Hondurans]] identify themselves as [[mestizo]]s, regardless of their ethnic and racial category.<ref>{{Citation |last=Euraque |first=Darío A. |title=SEXUALIDAD MASCULINA Y HOMOFOBIA EN LA HISTORIA DE HONDURAS |date=2019-06-01 |work=Antología del pensamiento hondureño contemporáneo |pages=293–308 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvnp0kc9.17 |access-date=2024-10-22 |publisher=Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales. CLACSO|doi=10.2307/j.ctvnp0kc9.17 }}</ref> This makes it more difficult to study the number of people who fit into the white category in Honduras.

The census states that only 89,000 people in Honduras labeled themselves as white, which is equal to around 1% of the total population at the time.<ref>{{Citation |title=Honduras |date=2024-10-28 |work=The World Factbook |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/honduras/ |access-date=2024-11-17 |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |language=en}}</ref> Another study has stated that around 210,000 people in Honduras fit this category, which would make the Honduran white population to be around 2.1%.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

However, other studies report that the percentage could rise much more, reaching close to a half a million white people in [[Honduras]], which according to official national sources would make a percentage of between 5% and 6.9% of whites in Hondurans.<ref>Honduras - XVII Censo de Población y VI de Vivienda 2013». Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Honduras. 16 de noviembre de 2015</ref> This is because the majority of whites in Honduras do not identify themselves as Euro-descendants as such, adopting and feeling more identified with the mestizo identity.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Examples of white Hondurans are ex-president [[Simon Azcona del Hoyo]], pharmacologist [[Salvador Moncada]], film director Juan Carlos Fanconi, politician [[Roberto Micheletti]], General [[Florencio Xatruch]] and former president of the [[Federal Republic of Central America|Central American federation]] Don [[Francisco Morazán]] Quezada.

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Don Francisco Morazan Quezada.JPG|Central American president, General Francisco Morazán
Florencio Xatruch 1.jpg|General, Florencio Xatruch
Dr. Francisco Bertrand, Pres't Honduras LCCN2014693045.jpg|Ex-President, Francisco Bertrand
EWS23.20.jpg|Sir. Salvador Moncada, Honduran pharmacologist
Juan Carlos Fanconi.jpg|Juan Carlos Fanconi, film director
Jose Azcona 1987.jpg|Ex president, José Simón Azcona del Hoyo
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=== East Asians ===
There is a small [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese]] community in Honduras. A lawyer of the [[Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras]] (CODEH) stated that the Chinese community in Honduras is rather small. Many of the Chinese are immigrants who arrived from China after the revolution and their descendants.<ref>[http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,4565c22523,4565c25f287,3ae6ad3818,0,,,HND.html]. The UN Refugee Agency. "Honduras: Information on racism and treatment of ethnic Chinese."</ref>

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Fotografia de Hajime Waki 2021.jpg|Hajime Waki, Honduran-Japanese singer.
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=== Arabs ===
Honduras hosts a significant [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] community (the vast majority of whom are [[Christian Arabs]]).<ref>[http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200104/the.arabs.of.honduras.htm The Arabs of Honduras] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009182011/http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200104/the.arabs.of.honduras.htm |date=9 October 2014 }}. Larry Luxner. ''Saudi Aramco World.''</ref> These Arab-Hondurans are sometimes called "Turcos", because they arrived in Honduras using Turkish travel documents, as their homeland was then under the control of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. The Palestinians arrived in the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, establishing themselves especially in the city of San Pedro Sula.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.luxner.com/cgi-bin/view_article.cgi?articleID=639|title=Luxner – Articles|website=www.luxner.com|access-date=20 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060516190901/http://www.luxner.com/cgi-bin/view_article.cgi?articleID=639|archive-date=16 May 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> As mentioned earlier, they are also considered whites in the country's censuses, in total the Arab-Hondurans make up 3% of the Honduran population.
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File:Miguel Facusse.jpg|Businessman Miguel Facusse, son of immigrants from the Ottoman Empire
File:Salvador Nasralla in 2013 (cropped).jpg|TV host Salvador Nasralla, son of Palestinian immigrants
File:Kerim Gattas Asfura.jpg|Dr Kerim Gattas Asfura, of Arab descent
File:Carlos Flores Facusse.JPG| [[Carlos Roberto Flores|Carlos Flores Facussé]], first Honduran president of Palestinian descent
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| colspan="5" style="background:#0072CE; color:white;" align=center|'''Immigrants in Honduras'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Immigrant and Emigrant Populations |date=10 February 2014 |url=https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-and-emigrant-populations-country-origin-and-destination |publisher=Migration Policy Institute |access-date=2 July 2021}}</ref>
|-
!scope="col" style="background:#FFFFFF; color:#0072CE"|Country
!scope="col" style="background:#FFFFFF; color:#0072CE"|Immigrants
|-
|{{flag|United States}}||21,000+
|-
|{{flag|El Salvador}}||9,000+
|-
|{{flag|Nicaragua}}||8,000+
|-
|{{flag|China}}||7,000+
|-
|{{flag|Cuba}}||5,000+
|-
|{{flag|Guatemala}}||4,000+
|-
|{{flag|Mexico}}||2,000+
|-
|{{flag|Colombia}}||1,000+
|-
|{{flag|Costa Rica}}||1,000+
|-
|{{flag|Spain}}||1,000+
|}