Editing Demographics of Costa Rica (section)

===European Costa Ricans===
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = European Costa Ricans
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| population       = {{circa}} '''2,830,000'''<ref name="nacion">{{cite web|url=http://www.nacion.com/vivir/ciencia/Herencia-china-moldea-genes-costarricenses_0_1444655578.html |title=Ticos tenemos más de africanos y chinos de lo que se pensaba |trans-title=Costa Rica has more Africans and Chinese than was thought |work=Nacion.com |date=12 October 2014 |access-date=18 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Costa Rica es multirracial, último censo lo pone en evidencia {{!}} Crhoy.com |url=https://archivo.crhoy.com/costa-rica-es-multirracial-ultimo-censo-lo-pone-en-evidencia/nacionales/ |access-date=2022-10-25 |website=CRHoy.com {{!}} Periodico Digital {{!}} Costa Rica Noticias 24/7 |language=es}}</ref><br /> 65.8% of the Costa Rican population
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| langs            = [[Costa Rican Spanish]], [[English language|English]]
| rels             = [[Roman Catholic]] 76.3%, [[Evangelical]] 13.7%, other 4.8%, none 3.2%, [[Buddhism]] 2%<ref name="CIA2">{{cite web|title=Costa Rica|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/costa-rica/|website=The World Factbook|access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref>
| related          = [[White Latin Americans]], [[White Caribbeans]]
}}

'''European Costa Ricans''' are people from [[Costa Rica]] whose ancestry lies within the continent of [[Europe]], most notably [[Spain]]. According to DNA studies, around 75%<ref name="GCIAD">{{cite journal|title=Genomic components in American demographic|journal=Genetics|date=2015|url=https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4307/35125440893_3566ed7714_o.jpg|volume=1|issue=3|page=25}}</ref> of the population have some level of European ancestry.<ref name="nacion"/>

Percentages of the Costa Rican population by race are known as the national census, which includes the question of ethnicity in its form. As of 2012, 65.80% of Costa Ricans identify themselves as white/castizo and 17.80% as mestizo, giving around over 80% of the Caucasian population. This, however, is based on self-identification and not on scientific studies. According to the [[PLoS]] ''Genetics Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos'' study of 2012, Costa Ricans have 73% of European ancestry, 25% Amerindian, and 2% African.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos Tabla|journal=PLOS Genetics| doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1000037|volume=4|issue=3|page=e1000037|pmid=18369456|pmc=2265669|date=March 2008 | last1 = Wang | first1 = S | last2 = Ray | first2 = N | last3 = Rojas | first3 = W |display-authors=et al |doi-access=free }}</ref> According to [[CIA Factbook]], Costa Rica has a white or mestizo population of 83.6%.<ref name="CIA"/>

[[Cristopher Columbus]] and his crew were the first Europeans ever to set foot on what is now Costa Rica, having arrived at [[Uvita Island]] (modern-day [[Limón province]]) in 1502 on Columbus's last trip.<ref name="Planet">{{cite journal|title=Costa Rica|journal=Lonely Planet|url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/costa-rica/history|access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref> Costa Rica was part of the [[Spanish Empire]] and colonized by Spaniards mostly [[Castilians]], [[Basque people|Basque]] and [[Sephardic Jews]].

After [[Independence of Central America|independence]], large migrations of wealthy [[Citizenship of the United States|Americans]], [[Germans]], [[French people|French]] and [[British people|British]] businessmen<ref name="Planet" /> came to the country encouraged by the government and followed by their families and employees (many of them technicians and professionals), thus creating colonies and mixing with the population, especially the [[High Class|high]] and [[middle class]]es.<ref name="SICREM">{{cite journal|title=OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION (Costa Rica)|journal=SICREM|url=http://www.migracionoea.org/index.php/en/sicremi-en/reports/34-sicremi/publicacion-2012/paises-en/515-sintesis-historica-de-la-migracion-internacional-costa-rica.html|access-date=30 August 2016|archive-date=11 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911122159/http://www.migracionoea.org/index.php/en/sicremi-en/reports/34-sicremi/publicacion-2012/paises-en/515-sintesis-historica-de-la-migracion-internacional-costa-rica.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Later, smaller migrations of [[Italians]], Spaniards (mostly [[Catalans]]) and [[Arab peoples|Arabs]] (mostly [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] and [[Syrians]]) took place. These migrants arrived fleeing economic crisis in their home countries, setting in large, more closed colonies.<ref name="Planet" /> [[Polish diaspora|Polish migrants]], mostly [[Ashkenazi Jews]] who fled [[anti-Semitism]] and [[Nazism|Nazi persecution in Europe]], also arrived in large numbers.<ref name="Planet" />

In 1901, the president [[Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra]] closed the country to all non-white immigrants. All Black, [[Chinese people|Chinese]], [[Arab]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] or [[Gypsy]] migration to the country was banned. After the beginning of the [[Spanish Civil War]], a large influx of [[Spanish Republican|Republican refugees]] settled in the country, mostly [[Castilians]], [[Galicians]], and [[Asturians]],<ref name="SICREM" /> as well as later [[Chilean people|Chilean]], [[Mexican people|Mexican]] and [[Colombian People|Colombian]]<ref name="Planet" /> migrants who would arrive escaping from war or dictatorships, as Costa Rica is the longest running democracy in [[Latin America]].<ref name="Planet" /><ref name="SICREM" />