Honduras is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different races, ethnicity, and national backgrounds.

The majority of the Honduras population is composed of mestizos, roughly 80%. Mestizos are mixed Amerindian and European ancestry (majority of them being of Spanish descent)

About 8% of Nicaraguans are indigenous, the descendants of the country’s original inhabitants. The majority of Amerindians in Honduras are Lenca, followed by the Miskito, Cho’rti’, Tolupan, Pech and Sumo.

3% of Nicaragua’s population is white, with the remaining 2.9% of Nicaragua’s population is black and mainly African ancestry. 

The majority of blacks in Honduran are culturally ladino, meaning they are culturally Latino. Non-ladino groups in Honduras include the Black Carib, Miskito, Arab immigrants and the black population of the Islas de la Bahía. The Miskito population (about 10,000 individuals) are the descendants of African and British immigrants and are extremely racially diverse.

While the Black Carib and Miskito populations have similar origins, Black Caribs are considered black while Miskitos are considered indigenous. 

The majority of Arab Hondurans are of Palestinian and Lebanese descent They are known as “turcos” in Honduras because of migration during the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

The racial composition is as follows

Source: estimates