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Colonial Mexican Population
Spaniards
Peninsulares: 250,000 to 300,00, mostly men
Criollos:<20,000 by 1560:
>1,000,000 by 1810; men & women
Mestizos
Indigenous Peoples
>20,000,000 in 1500;
<1,000,000 in 1620;
>3,600,00 in 1810
Blacks (slaves)
120,000 came between 1519-1650;
80,000 came between 1650-1810
census of 1810: 6,000 and 600,000 afromestizos
Other Groups
Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Jews
[source: Robert V. Kemper (1995) "Migración y Transformación de la cultura mexicana: 1519-1992," pp. 533-547 en Agustin Jacinto Zavala y Alvaro Ochoa Serrano (coord.), Tradición e Identidad en la Cultura Mexicana. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán y CONACYT.]