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*Antigua has a population of 96,286, mostly made up of people of '''West African, British, and Madeiran descent'''. The ethnic distribution consists of 91% Black & Mulatto, 4.4% mixed race, 1.7% White, and 2.9% other (primarily East Indian and other Asian). Most Whites are of British descent. | *Antigua has a population of 96,286, mostly made up of people of '''West African, British, and Madeiran descent'''. The ethnic distribution consists of 91% Black & Mulatto, 4.4% mixed race, 1.7% White, and 2.9% other (primarily East Indian and other Asian). Most Whites are of British descent. | ||
*'''Christian Levantine Arabs''', and a small number of '''Asians and Sephardic Jews''' make up the remainder of the population. | *'''Christian Levantine Arabs''', and a small number of '''Asians and Sephardic Jews''' make up the remainder of the population. | ||
*A minority of Antiguan residents are immigrants from other countries, particularly from '''Dominica, Guyana and Jamaica''', and, increasingly, from the '''Dominican Republic, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Nigeria'''. | |||
*An estimated 4,500 '''American citizens''' also make their home in Antigua and Barbuda, making their numbers one of the largest American populations in the English-speaking Eastern Caribbean.<ref name="AB">"Antigua and Barbuda", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda#Demographics, accessed 25 July 2021.</ref> | |||
==Emigration From Antigua and Barbuda== | ==Emigration From Antigua and Barbuda== |
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