- The Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art in Coral Gables, is the first and only museum in the United States dedicated to the preservation, diffusion, and promotion of Hispanic and Latin American Art.
- The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2007 is 45.5 million. People of Hispanic origin are the nation’s largest ethnic or race minority and constitute for 15 percent of the nation’s total population. (Does not include the 3.9 million residents of Puerto Rico.)
- Approximately one in eight people in the United States is of Hispanic origin.
- The projected Hispanic population of the United States in the year 2050 is 102.6 million. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 24 percent of the nation’s total population by that date.
- As of 2008, there are 77,700 Hispanic chief executives; 49,200 physicians and surgeons; 53,700 post-secondary teachers; 29,000 lawyers; and 3,300 news analysts, reporters and correspondents.
- There are 1.1 million Hispanic veterans of the U.S. armed forces. (2005)
- The 45.5 million Hispanics that reside in the U.S. come from various Latin American countries: 66% from Mexico, 15% from Central and South America, 9% of Puerto Rican, 6% from other countries, 4% from Cuban
- According to Census data, the nation's Hispanic population increased 58 percent between 1990 and 2000, or 13 million. Hispanics accounted for 40 percent of the nation's increase in population during this period.
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