Peruvian Briton
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| Peruvian Britons Británico peruanos   |
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  Notable Peruvian Britons: Michael Bentine, Henry Ian Cusick |
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| Total population |
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45,000 - 65,000[1] |
| Regions with significant populations |
| London, Midlands, South East England, North West England |
| Languages |
| English (British English) Spanish (Peruvian Spanish) |
| Religions |
| Christianity Predominantly Roman Catholic and Evangelicals |
| Related ethnic groups |
| Peruvian people • Latin American Briton • Spanish Briton • Hispanic • Latino • British Peruvian |
This article is about British people of Peruvian descent, for Peruvian people of British descent, see here
A Peruvian Briton (Spanish: Británico peruano) is a person of Peruvian ancestry living in the United Kingdom (born and/or raised in the UK), they can be either British citizens or non-citizen immigrants.
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[edit] History
[edit] Population
According to the 2001 UK Census, a meer 4,000 Peruvian born people were living in the UK, [2] representing just over 6% of the UK's Latin American born community, considering most recent estimates of 700,000 to 1 million ethnically Latin American people in the UK, there are likely to be between 45,000 and 65,000 Argentine Britons.[3]
[edit] Sub Groups
Peru is a diverse nation, the table below is based on the Peruvian Census, and shows how the UK's Peruvian community can be split into further subgroups by population and percentage.
| Ethnic Sub Group | Percentage (out of UK's Peruvian community) | Population (out of UK's Peruvian community) |
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| Amerindian | 45% | 22,000 |
| Mestizo | 37% | 18,000 |
| White European | 15% | 7,000 |
| Black | 5% | 2,000 |
| Asian | 5% | 2,000 |
Peruvians are a small but notable community in the British Latin American population. Most of them came since 1960 for either political asylum and economic reasons. Some Peruvians are of British ancestry at the first place, but the ethnic composition of Peruvians in Britain includes African, Italian, German and Swiss, Chinese, and Japanese ancestries.
[edit] Notable Peruvian Britons
- Michael Bentine, Comedian & Actor
- Henry Ian Cusick, Actor Desmond Hume on LOST
- Alfredo Salazar Southwell - aviator
[edit] See also
- Demographics of Peru
- Peruvian people
- Spanish people
- Spanish Briton
- Latin American Briton
- Peruvian American
- Mestizo
- Amerindians
- Mulatto
- Afro-Peruvian
- Hispanic
- Latino
- British Peruvian
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