Mexican states with more Afro-descendants 2020

Guerrero is the Mexican state with the highest proportion of Afro-descendant population. In 2020, 8.6 percent of residents in this federal entity located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean defined themselves as Afro-descendants or Afro-Mexicans. In Mexico City, approximately two percent of inhabitants self-identified as Afro-descendants.

Share of population who self-perceived as Afro-descendant in Mexico in 2020, by federal entity

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Release date

January 2021

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Region

Mexico

Survey time period

March 2 to 27, 2020

Supplementary notes

According to INEGI, Afro-Mexicans or Afro-descendants are descendants of people from the African continent who arrived in Mexico during the colonial period, both in forced or free conditions to work in haciendas, sugar mills, mines, manufacturing, workshops, and in household services such as cooks, wet nurses or midwives, among other activities. It also includes people of African origin who arrived in Mexico in post-colonial times and recent years.

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