What percentage of the population in Mexico is Afro Mestizo?

TL;DR - as a self-identifying label, nobody currently knows, not even those who self-identify as such. It just hasn't been counted . Why? Read on. read more

The article goes on to say that the question will first be asked in 2015 as part of a push to constitutionally recognize Afro-Mexicans and Afro-Mestizos as a separate ethnic group, and based on the results of that census, they will design better, deeper questions on the topic for 2020. read more

For example, there were an estimated 600,000 Afromestizos or Mestizos of significant African descent at the end of the colonial period which roughly amounted to 10% of the population (Euromestizos and indomestizos were estimeted at 1,000,000 and 600,000 respectively) while as of 2015, the number of self identified Afro-Mexicans was 1.38 million (1.2% of the population). read more

In the 1742 and 1793 censuses, the Black and Mulatto population of Mexico came in at about 10%, being much less numerous than the indigenous and mestizo population, and with no strictures against intermarriage, with time they were absorbed into the general Mexican population. read more