Since 1975 emigration from

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has accelerated as economic migrants and political refugees seek a better life elsewhere. Although many Hondurans have many relatives in

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the coun ...

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , ...

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El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south ...

and

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, the majority of Hondurans living abroad are in the

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. Nowadays, most Hondurans migrate because of the

political persecution Political repression is the act of a state entity controlling a citizenry by force for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing the citizenry's ability to take part in the political life of a society, thereby ...

, unemployment, and poverty that has affected the country since the 1990s. However, many Hondurans have succeeded abroad; examples include

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, Sir.

Salvador Moncada Sir Salvador Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FMedSci (born 3 December 1944) is a Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor. He is currently Research Domain Director for Cancer at the University of Manchester. In the past, he was the Research Directo ...

Carlos Mencia Ned Arnel "Carlos" Mencía (born October 22, 1967) is a Honduran-American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race relations, Latin American culture, criminal justice, and social class. He i ...

, Henry Flores, and Gerald Young.

Countries

The United States

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (figures taken from the 2015 American Community Survey), 1,084,000 Hondurans live in the USA, making them the third largest

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community in the U.S. The top

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s for the Honduran community are: 2012 US State Department estimates suggested there are between 800,000 and 1 million Hondurans living in the United States, nearly 15% of the Honduran domestic population. The large uncertainty is due to the substantial number of Hondurans living illegally in the United States. The 2010 U.S. Census counted 633,401 Hondurans in the United States, up from 217,569 in 2000.

Spain

On October 3, 1963, the then President of Honduras Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales and his wife Alejandrina Bermúdez Milla, visited

on the occasion of the change of Honduran Ambassador, Antonio Bermúdez for Virgilio Zelaya Rubí; Villeda Morales also met with Hondurans residing in the European nation, among them were: Harold Aldana, Jorge Rápalo, Luis Alberto Ponce, Óscar Ziri Zúñiga, Rubén Villeda. On March 14, 1966, the Resolution on the Hispanic-Honduran Cultural Agreement2 is issued in which the Cultural Treaty between Hispano-Honduran dated October 22, 1958 is discussed and in which the citizens of both countries are exonerated from the payment of enrollment, exams and degrees when they enroll in educational centers in a country other than their own. There were 100,000 Hondurans living in Spain in 2018.La otra 'trata de blancas': así operan las mafias hondureñas en España
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The Americas

According to statistics compiled by CELADE (Investigación Migración Internacional de Latinoamérica) in 1992 there were more than 8,700 Hondurans living in El Salvador, 9,700 in Nicaragua (by 1995), 5,500 in Guatemala (by 2002), 3,000 in Costa Rica (by 2000); and 2,400 in Belize (by 1990). Additionally, according to the UN Demographic Yearbook (2000) 8,700 Hondurans live in Canada. There's another population of 80,587 in Mexico (by 2018).

References

{{Reflist Demographics of Honduras

Countries

The United States

Spain

The Americas

See also

References