Fun Facts
The U.S. Hispanic population now stands at 57 million, making
Hispanics the nation’s second-fastest-growing racial or ethnic group
after Asians. Today Hispanics make up 18% of the U.S. population,
up from 5%
With 329 million native speakers, Spanish ranks as the world's No. 2
language in terms of how many people speak it as their first
language. is slightly ahead of English (328 million) but behind
Chinese (1.2 billion).
There are 1.1 million Hispanic veterans of the U.S. armed forces.
The term “Hispanic” originally denoted a relationship to Hispania,
more commonly known as Portugal and Spain, and the people
colonized by those two countries.
According to the 2010 Census, Hispanics accounted for more than
half of the growth in United States population between 2000 and
2010. The U.S. is the fifth largest Hispanic country in the world. The
majority of the U.S. population is Mexican American, followed in size
by Central and South Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban
Americans.
Hispanics are the youngest of the major racial and ethnic groups in
the U.S