Argentines of European descent

European Argentines
Argentinos Europeos (Spanish)
Argentina European Union
European Argentines in the inaugural parade of the Immigrant's Festival
Total population
44,442,347 (2022 estimated)[1][2]
96.52% of the Argentine population
Full or parcial, including Mestizos, Highly inaccurate and speculative estimate
Regions with significant populations
All areas of Argentina
Languages
Spanish • European languages (including Italian · Basque · German · Russian · English · Polish · Welsh · Galician · French · Yiddish · Ukrainian · Romani · Serbo-Croatian)
Religion
Predominantly Christianity (Roman Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox)
Minority Jewish • Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
European Americans · Spaniards · Italians · Germans · French · Irish · Portuguese · Poles · Romani · Croats · Ashkenazi · Others

European Argentines (Spanish: Argentinos Europeos), are Argentines who have predominantly or total European ancestry (formerly called Criollos or Castizos in the viceregal era), belong to several communities which trace their origins to various migrations from Europe and which have contributed to the country's cultural and demographic variety.[3][4] They are the descendants of colonists from Spain during the colonial period prior to 1810,[5] or in the majority of cases, of Spanish, Italians, French, Russians and other Europeans who arrived in the great immigration wave from the mid 19th to the mid 20th centuries, and who largely intermarried among their many nationalities during and after this wave.[6] No recent Argentine census has included comprehensive questions on ethnicity, although numerous studies have determined that European Argentines have been a majority in the country since 1914.[7]

  1. ^ "Censo 2022". INDEC. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  2. ^ According to the 2022 Census, it is estimated that 96.52% of Argentines have European or Asian ancestry, including mestizos and mulattos. However, there are no official census data or statistically significant studies on the precise number or percentage of Argentines of European ancestry today, because Argentina only conducts censuses of Indigenous and Black people.
  3. ^ Todd L. Edwards (2008). Argentina: A Global Studies Handbook. ABC-CLIO. pp. 192–194. ISBN 978-1-85109-986-3. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  4. ^ Sociología Argentina. by José Ingenieros. Editorial Losada, 1946. Pages 453, 469, 470.
  5. ^ Historical Dictionary of Argentina. London: Scarecrow Press, 1978. pp. 239–40.
  6. ^ "Acerca de la Argentina: Inmigración" [About Argentina: Immigration]. Government of Argentina (in Spanish). 2005. Archived from the original on 13 March 2008.
  7. ^ Francisco Lizcano Fernández (31 May 2005). "Composición Étnica de las Tres Áreas Culturales del Continente Americano al Comienzo del Siglo XXI" [Ethnic Composition of the Three Cultural Areas of the American Continent to the Beginning of the 21st century] (PDF). Convergencia (in Spanish) (38). México: 185–232. ISSN 1405-1435. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2008. Retrieved 11 July 2014.

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