There are around 1,600,000 Venezuelans of Arab origin, mainly from Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.
[1] Most Arab Venezuelans are of Syrian descent with their number between 400,000 and 1 million inhabitants,[2][3] and Lebanese descent with their number between 130,000[4] and 341,000[5][6] Arab immigration to Venezuela started as early as the 19th and 20th centuries.
They came mostly from the Ottoman provinces of Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, and are present in significant numbers in Caracas.
[8] More than 200,000 people from the Sweida area carry Venezuelan citizenship and most are members of Syria's Druze sect, who immigrated to Venezuela in the past century.
[9] In 2021 The largest Druze communities outside the Middle East are in Venezuela (60,000) and in the United States (50,000).