section_path: Ethnic groups
section_name: Ethnic groups
paragraph_text: Ethnic groups
  
  In the 2017 Census, those of age 12 and above were asked what ancestral origin they belong to, with 60.2% of Peruvians self-identifying as mestizos, 20% as Quechuas, 5% as European, 3% as Afro-Peruvian, 2% as Aymaras, 0.6% as Amazonians, and 0.1% as Asian. Large indigenous populations live in the southern Andes, with other large populations found on the southern and central coast due to massive internal labor migration from the Andes to coastal cities over the past four decades.