Belizean Kriol people

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The Belizean Creole are Creole descendants of African slaves who were brought primarily from Jamaica and Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast to cut down mahogany trees.^{[citation needed]} Because of a lack of European women, their Irish and Scottish slave owners would either marry or engage in sexual relations with female slaves, creating a new ethnic group.^{[citation needed]}

Until the early 1980s, Belizean Creoles constituted close to 50% of the population of Belize, but today they are about 25% of the population. ^{[citation needed]} This was due to an influx of Central American refugees coming in from neighboring countries as well as emigration of approximately 85,000 Creoles abroad, primarily to the United States and England.^{[citation needed]}