What percentage of Costa Rica is white?

The majority of the Costa Rican Population comes from Europe since it was a Spanish colony for a long time. 83.6% of the Ticos are white or mestizo, 6.7% mulattoes, 2.4% Native American and 1.1% black or Afro-Caribbean. This makes Costa Rica one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in Central America.



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