Photo courtesy of Joshua Project.By Masters View / Howard Erickson
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QUICK FACTS:
People groups: 61
Population: 17,496,275
Unreached people groups: 2
UPG population: 116,200
Unengaged UPGs: 1
UUPG population: 3,200
Number of countries: 28
Affinity Bloc: Latin-Caribbean Americans
Overview: Afro-Caribbeans are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa. Their ancestors were taken from Africa to the Caribbean islands via the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries. People groups within this cluster share a variety of English, Dutch or French-based creole languages.
Peoples within this cluster: Afro-Caribbean; Afro-Guyanese; Afro-Trinidadian; Antillean Creole, Papiamentu; Antilles English-Speaking; Barbadians; Beke White Creole; Black Creole; Guadeloupean Creole French; Guianese Mulatto; Haitian; Lesser Antillean Creole; Montserratans; Nicaraguan Creole; Saint Lucian; Surinam Javanese; Surinamese Creole; Surinamese, Dutch-Speaking; Tobagonian Creole English Speakers; Turks and Caicos Creole; West Indian Black
Countries where they are found: Aruba; Bahamas; Barbados; Bermuda; Canada; Cuba; Curacao; Dominica; Dominican Republic; France; French Guiana; Germany; Guadeloupe; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands; Nicaragua; Saint Lucia; Sint Maarten; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United Kingdom; United States
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