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Latin America

Antigua and Barbuda is home to 7 documented ethnic groups in Latin America — led by Afro-Antiguan Barbudan (~88%), Mixed Antiguan (~5%), Hispanic Antiguan (~3%), Afro-Caribbean Antiguan (~3%). This page blends their phenotype and demographic data into one weighted reference: skin tone, facial features, hair texture and build, drawn from published census and ancestry sources.

Demographic Composition

Composition weights are derived from self-identification in published census and demographic surveys. Each row links to the source ethnic-group atlas page.

Ethnic groupWeightSource
Afro-Antiguan BarbudanAfro-Antiguan Barbudan87.6%Statistics Division Antigua and Barbuda 2011 Census; self-identified African (~87.6%); descendants of enslaved Africans brought to British colonial Antigua during 17th-19th c. sugar-economy expansion plus continued admixture with Caribbean migrant communities
Mixed AntiguanMixed Antiguan4.6%Statistics Division 2011 Census, self-identified mixed (~4.6%)
Hispanic AntiguanHispanic Antiguan2.5%Statistics Division 2011 Census, self-identified Hispanic (~2.5%); recent immigrants from Dominican Republic and other Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries
Afro-Caribbean AntiguanAfro-Caribbean Antiguan2.5%Statistics Division 2011 Census plus subsequent immigration data; the substantial migrant Afro-Caribbean population from Dominica, Saint Vincent, Saint Kitts, Guyana, and other Caribbean source countries
White AntiguanWhite Antiguan1.8%Statistics Division 2011 Census, self-identified white (~1.8%); descendants of British colonial settlers plus 19th-20th c. immigration plus contemporary expat retiree communities
Lebanese-Syrian CaribbeanLebanese-Syrian Caribbean0.5%Statistics Division 2011 Census; the small Lebanese-Antiguan and Syrian-Antiguan business community descended from late-19th and early-20th c. Levantine Christian immigration
Indo-Caribbean ImmigrantIndo-Caribbean Immigrant0.5%Statistics Division 2011 Census; small East Indian community

Antigua and Barbuda Phenotype Profile

Antigua and Barbuda has a strongly Afro-descended demographic profile (~88% Afro-Antiguan and Barbudan per the 2011 Statistics Division census), with smaller mixed (~4.6%), Hispanic (~2.5%), Afro-Caribbean migrant (~2.5%), white (~1.8%), Lebanese-Syrian (~0.5%), and Indo-Caribbean (~0.5%) communities. Skin tone across the population spans Fitzpatrick III-VI with V-VI the modal range nationally — characteristic of British Caribbean-Anglophone Afro-descended national populations. Hair texture is overwhelmingly Andre Walker 4A-4C — coily — across the broader Afro-Antiguan and Barbudan population. Hair color is uniformly black or very dark brown except in small white-Antiguan and admixed populations. Eye color is predominantly brown to dark brown nationally with light-eye variants concentrated in white-Antiguan populations.

A descriptive view, not a claim about individuals

This page shows a weighted aggregate of phenotype observations across the Antigua and Barbuda population, based on demographic composition from published census and ancestry sources. Phenotypes within any country are far more varied than the aggregate suggests; this is a descriptive reference, not a deterministic claim about any individual. For source-level detail on individual ethnic groups, see the constituent atlas pages linked below.

Methodology Notes

Composition weights are derived from Antigua and Barbuda's 2011 Statistics Division Population and Housing Census, the most recent comprehensive census. Caveats: (1) the Hispanic-Antiguan share has grown substantially through 21st c. immigration not captured by 2011 data; (2) the Barbuda island sub-population is demographically distinct (smaller, more isolated) but is aggregated with Antigua at the national level; (3) the very small white-Antiguan and Asian-Antiguan communities are subject to high statistical uncertainty given the small population sizes.

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Primary Sources

  1. 1.Statistics Division Antigua and Barbuda. Population and Housing Census 2011. St. John's: Statistics Division; 2014.
  2. 2.Lazarus-Black M. Legitimate Acts and Illegal Encounters: Law and Society in Antigua and Barbuda. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press; 1994.
  3. 3.Lowes S. The Peculiar Class: The Formation, Collapse, and Reformation of the Middle Class in Antigua, West Indies, 1834-1940 (PhD thesis). Columbia University; 1995.
  4. 4.Berleant-Schiller R. Free Labor and the Economy in Seventeenth-Century Montserrat. William and Mary Quarterly. 1989;46(3):539-564 (with broader Eastern Caribbean context).
  5. 5.Smith K, Smith F. To Shoot Hard Labour: The Life and Times of Samuel Smith, an Antiguan Workingman, 1877-1982. Toronto: Edan's Publishers; 1986.

Other countries in Latin America

Aggregate phenotype references for neighbouring Latin America nations, weighted by demographic composition.