Most of the population of Latin America is?

All of them are composed of three ethnic groups: Native Americans or Amerindians; people of European descent and people of African ancestry. Most countries within Latin America have these three ethnic groups and mixtures of all three of them. For example, mestizo people, a mix of native American and European, makes up the majority of most countries in Central America. On the other hand, South American countries have kept a more pronounced segregation; this has resulted in countries with an overwhelmingly majority of European (Argentina: 97%; Uruguay: 88%) or Amerindian (Peru: 45%) people.