Summary
- Politics
- Name: Belize
- Capital: Belmopan
- 2 Letter Code: BZ
- 3 Letter Code: BLZ
- Land
- Contenent: The Americas
- Region: Central America
- Total Land: 22,966 (8,867)
- Land: 22,806 (8,805)
- Water: 160 (62)
- People
- Population: 287,730
- Birth Rate: 28.84 per 1,000
- Death Rate: 5.72 per 1,000
- Infant Mortality: 25.69 per 1,000
- Literacy: 83.00%
- Economy
- Agriculture: 14.2%%
- Industry: 15.2%%
- Service: 61.2%%
Map
Belize is a country in Central America. It is located on the eastern coast.
History
Coming soon.
Modern Times
Most of the population is urban (42.3%).
The ethnic groups of Belize include Mestizo (52.9%), Creole (25.9%), Maya (11.3%), Garifuna (6.1%), East Indian (3.9%), Mennonites (3.6%), White (1.2%), Asian (1%), other ethnic groups (1.2%), and unknown (0.3%).
The majority of Belizeans religion is Roman Catholic (40.1%), also have Protestant (31.5%), Jehovah’s Witness (1.7%), and other groups’ ethnicity (10.5%) with unspecified (0.6%).
English is the official language of Belize’s people (62.9%). The second is Spanish, which is common for speaking (56.6%).
Genetics
This section is under development.
mtDNA
Genographic ProjectGeno 2.0 Data
Data from Geno 2.0 is derived from the The National Geographic Society’s Genographic Project — the DAR. The Hg ID is specific to this site and is used to protect the identities of those who take part in Genographic research. Birth Country, Mother's Birth Country, and Maternal Grandmother's Birth Country have been normalized from DAR database fields. The Maternal Origin is determined based on the three previous fields.
Note: Geno 2.0 results currently use Phylotree build 16. I am working on changing results over to build 17.
| Hg ID | Hg Build 16 | Birth Country | Mother's Birth Country | Maternal Grandmother's Birth Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hap10041849 | A2ap | Belize | Belize | Unspecified |
| Hap10042452 | A2m | Belize | Belize | Unspecified |
| Hap10042689 | A2w | United States | Belize | Belize |
| Hap10067045 | L1b2a | Canada | Jamaica | Belize |
| Hap10067809 | L2a1e | United States | Belize | Unspecified |
| Hap10068322 | L2b3b | United States | Belize | Unspecified |
| Hap10068905 | L3d1c1 | United States | Belize | Belize |
| Hap10070262 | M30c | United States | Belize | Belize |
Sources and Resources
Background
Coming soon.
Journal Articles
- Posth, C., Nakatsuka, N., Lazaridis, I, Skoglund, P., Mallick, S., Lamnidis, T.C., Rohland, N., Nagele, K., Adamski, N., Bertolini, E. Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Cooper, A., Culleton, B.J., Ferraz, T., Ferry, M., Furtwangler, A., Haak, W., Harkins, K., Harper, T.K., Hunemeier, T., Lawson, A.M., Llamas, B., Michel, M., Nelson, E., Oppenheimer, J., Patterson, N., Schiffels, S., Sedig, J., Stewardson, K., Talamo, S., Wang, C., Hublin, J., Hubbe, M., Harvati, K., Nuevo Delaunay, A., Judith Beier, J., Francken, M., Kaulicke, P., Reyes-Centeno, H., Rademaker, K., Trask, W.R., Mark Robinson, M., Gutierrez, S.M. (2018). Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America. Cell, -, -.