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As of 2020, Hispanics and Latinos make up 18.7% of the total U.S. population (approximately 62 million out of a total of around 330 million). The state with the largest percentage of Hispanics and Latinos is New Mexico at 47.7%. The state with the largest Hispanic and Latino population overall is California with 15.6 million Hispanics and Latinos.
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States. Over 42 million people aged five or older speak Spanish at home. [1] Spanish is also the most learned language other than English, [3] with about 8 million students. Estimates count up to 57 million native speakers, heritage language speakers, and second-language speakers.
The Spanish Empire was "built on waves of migration overseas by Spanish people" who left Spain and "reached across the globe and permanently affected population structures" in the Americas. As a result of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, what became Latin America was "easily the greatest single destination of emigrant Spanish".
U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved June 12, 2008. [There were 39.5 million Hispanic and Latino Americans aged 5 or more in 2006. 8.5 million of them, or 22%, spoke only English at home, and another 156,000, or 0.4%, spoke neither English nor Spanish at home. The other 30.8 million, or 78%, spoke Spanish at home.
A 2009 American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the United States Census Bureau, showed that Spanish was spoken at home by over 35 million people aged 5 or older, making the United States the world's fifth-largest Spanish-speaking community, outnumbered only by Mexico, Colombia, Spain, and Argentina.
Spanish Americans in the United States are found in large concentrations in five major states from 1940 through the early twenty-first century. In 1940, the highest concentration of Spaniards were in New York (primarily New York City ), followed by California, Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Of the more than 498 million people who speak Spanish as their native language, more than 455 million are in Latin America, the United States and Canada in 2022. The total amount of native and non-native speakers of Spanish as of October 2022 exceeds 595 million. There are numerous regional particularities and idiomatic expressions within Spanish.
The region known as Hispanic America ( Spanish: Hispanoamérica or América Hispana) and historically as Spanish America ( América Española) is all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas. [1] [2] In all of these countries, Spanish is the main language - sometimes sharing official status with one or more indigenous languages (such as ...