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What are the countries with the highest black population outside of Africa?

Here are the largest 17 African diaspora populations in the world.

The African diaspora refers to the communities throughout the world that have resulted by descent from the movement in historic times of peoples from Africa, predominantly to the Americas, Europe, the Middle EastAsia, and among other areas around the globe.

In the Americas, the confluence of multiple ethnic groups from around the world created multi-ethnic societies. In Central and South America, most people are descended from European, indigenous American, and African ancestry.

The dispersal through slave trading represents the largest forced migrations in human history. The economic effect on the African continent was devastating, as generations of young people were taken from their communities and societies were disrupted. Some communities created by descendants of African slaves in the Americas, Europe, and Asia have survived to the modern day. In other cases, blacks intermarried with non-blacks, and their descendants are blended into the local population.

There was considerable racial intermarriage in colonial Virginia, and other forms of racial mixing during the slavery and post-Civil War years. Racist Jim Crow and anti-miscegenation laws passed after the Reconstruction era in the South in the late nineteenth century, plus waves of vastly increased immigration from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, maintained some distinction between racial groups. In the early 20th century, to institutionalize racial segregation, most southern states adopted the “one drop rule“, which defined and recorded anyone with any discernible African ancestry as black, even of obvious majority white or Native American ancestry. One of the results of this implementation was the loss of records of Indian-identified groups, who were classified only as black because of being mixed race.

The African Union defined the African diaspora as “[consisting] of people of African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union.” Its constitutive act declares that it shall “invite and encourage the full participation of the African diaspora as an important part of our continent, in the building of the African Union.”

Between 1500 and 1900, approximately four million enslaved Africans were transported to island plantations in the Indian Ocean, about eight million were shipped to Mediterranean-area countries, and about eleven million survived the Middle Passage to the New World. Their descendants are now found around the globe, but because of intermarriage they are not necessarily readily identifiable.

Dispersal through voluntary migration?

See Emigration from Africa for a general treatment of voluntary population movements since the late 20th century.

From the very onset of Spanish exploration and colonial activities in the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africans participated both as voluntary expeditionaries and as involuntary laborers. Juan Garrido was such an African conquistador. He crossed the Atlantic as afreedman in the 1510s and participated in the siege of Tenochtitlan. Africans had been present in Asia and Europe long before Columbus’s travels. Beginning in the late 20th century, Africans began to emigrate to Europe and the Americas in increasing numbers, constituting new African diaspora communities not directly connected with the slave trade.

African diaspora

21 Regions with significant black populations
Brazil 55,900,000 including multiracial people, 6.84% (black) + 20.6% (mulatto pardos)
United States 42,020,743 including 3,091,424 citing both Black and another race.

Haiti 8,788,439
Dominican Republic 7,985,991
Colombia 5,019,100
France 3,800,000
Jamaica 2,731,419
United Kingdom 2,080,000

Mexico 1,400,000 (according to bbc radio documentary & December 2015 Mexican census) & up to 1,984,210 (according to Afro-Mexicans Wiki)

Yemen 1,500,000 (according to Al Jazeera English 2012 episode on The plight of Yemen’s ‘untouchables’)

Cuba 1,126,894
Italy 1,100,000

Argentina 149,493 (Wiki) but over a 1,000,000 (according to news paper article)

Iraq 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 according to an CNN interview but the claim is hard to verify because the gov’t doesn’t keep statistics on this.

Puerto Rico 979,842

Peru 875,427 to 930,000 (Wiki) but according to Henry Gates Documentary Black in Latin America ( Episode 4 ) Mexico Peru A Hidden Race, it’s estimation is at 2,000,000

Germany 817,150
Canada 783,795
Spain 690,291
Ecuador 680,000
Trinidad and Tobago 607,472

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