Venezuelans
Venezuelans (Spanish: venezolanos) are the citizens identified with the country of Venezuela. This connection may be through citizenship, descent or cultural. For most Venezuelans, many or all of these connections exist and are the source of their Venezuelan citizenship or their bond to Venezuela.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 33.5 million Diaspora c. 7.1 million 0.44% of world's population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Venezuela 28,199,867 (2016) | |
| Colombia | 2,820,000 |
| Peru | 1,600,000 |
| United States | 814,080 (2023) |
| Chile | 532,715 (2021) |
| Ecuador | 500,000 |
| Spain | 440,992 (2022) |
| Brazil | 325,766 |
| Argentina | 272,000 |
| Dominican Republic | 124,100 |
| Portugal | 100,000 |
| Panama | 94,400 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 78,849 |
| Syria | 60,000 - 200,000 |
| Italy | 59,000 - 150,000 |
| Mexico | 53,000 |
| Uruguay | 33,000 |
| France | 30,000 |
| Canada | 28,395 |
| Germany | 20,000 |
| Aruba | 17,000 |
| Curaçao | 17,000 |
| United Kingdom | 15,000 |
| Cuba | 15,000 |
| Lebanon | 12,000 |
| Australia | 10,000 |
| Ireland | 5,000 |
| Paraguay | 4,000 |
| Puerto Rico | 3,108 |
| Costa Rica | 3,000 |
| Guyana | 3,000 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2,500 |
| Bolivia | 2,000 |
| New Zealand | 2,000 |
| Sweden | 1,837 |
| China | 1,000 |
| Netherlands | 1,000 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1,000 |
| South Africa | 1,000 |
| Bonaire | 713 |
| Sint Maarten | 600 |
| Languages | |
| Primarily Venezuelan Spanish (96.6%)
Other languages
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| Religion | |
| Christian majority: Roman Catholicism (71.0%), Protestantism (Evangelicals) (22.0%), other Christians: Eastern Orthodox Church, Mormonism, Jehovah Witnesses
Irreligion, Deism, Agnosticism and Atheism: (8.0%) minorities: Santería (1%), Muslim (0.4%), Judaism (0.05%) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Spaniards, Mestizo, Amerindians | |
Venezuela is a diverse and multilingual country, home to a melting pot of people of distinct origins, as a result, many Venezuelans do not regard their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship or allegiance. Venezuela as Argentina and Brazil, received most immigrants, during 1820s to 1930s Venezuela received a major wave of 2.1 million European immigrants, being the third country in Latin America to have received Europeans, behind Argentina and Brazil.