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World Ethnic Groups
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| This entry provides an ordered listing of ethnic groups starting with the largest and normally includes the percent of total population. |
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Ethnic Groups
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Afghanistan: |
Pashtun 38%, Tajik 25%, Hazara 19%, minor ethnic groups (Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch, and others) 12%, Uzbek 6%
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Albania: |
Albanian 95%, Greeks 3%, other 2% (Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians) (1989 est.)
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in 1989, other estimates of the Greek population ranged from 1% (official Albanian statistics) to 12% (from a Greek organization)
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Algeria: |
Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1%
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American Samoa: |
Samoan (Polynesian) 89%, Caucasian 2%, Tongan 4%, other 5%
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Andorra: |
Spanish 43%, Andorran 33%, Portuguese 11%, French 7%, other 6% (1998)
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Angola: |
Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22%
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Anguilla: |
black
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Antigua and Barbuda: |
black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian
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Argentina: |
white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo, Amerindian, or other nonwhite groups 3%
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Armenia: |
Armenian 93%, Azeri 3%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 2% (1989)
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as of the end of 1993, virtually all Azeris had emigrated from Armenia
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Aruba: |
mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian 80%
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Australia: |
Caucasian 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1%
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Austria: |
German 98%, Croatian, Slovene, other (includes Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Roma)
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Azerbaijan: |
Azeri 90%, Dagestani 3.2%, Russian 2.5%, Armenian 2%, other 2.3% (1998 est.)
note:
almost all Armenians live in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region
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Bahamas, The: |
black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3%
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Bahrain: |
Bahraini 63%, Asian 19%, other Arab 10%, Iranian 8%
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Bangladesh: |
Bengali 98%, tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims (1998)
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Barbados: |
black 80%, white 4%, other 16%
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Belarus: |
Byelorussian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish, Ukrainian, and other 7.4%
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Belgium: |
Fleming 58%, Walloon 31%, mixed or other 11%
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Belize: |
mestizo 43.7%, Creole 29.8%, Maya 10%, Garifuna 6.2%, other 10.3%
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Benin: |
African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5,500
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Bermuda: |
black 58%, white 36%, other 6%
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Bhutan: |
Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35%, indigenous or migrant tribes 15%
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Bolivia: |
Quechua 30%, Aymara 25%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, white 15%
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: |
Serb 31%, Bosniak 44%, Croat 17%, Yugoslav 5.5%, other 2.5% (1991)
note:
Bosniak has replaced muslim as an ethnic term in part to avoid confusion with the religious term Muslim - an adherent of Islam
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Botswana: |
Tswana (or Setswana) 79%, Kalanga 11%, Basarwa 3%, other, including Kgalagadi and white 7%
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Brazil: |
white (includes Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) 55%, mixed white and black 38%, black 6%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 1%
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British Virgin Islands: |
black 90%, white, Asian
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Brunei: |
Malay 67%, Chinese 15%, indigenous 6%, other 12%
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Bulgaria: |
Bulgarian 83%, Turk 8.5%, Roma 2.6%, Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Gagauz, Circassian, others (1998)
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Burkina Faso: |
Mossi over 40%, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani
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Burma: |
Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Mon 2%, Indian 2%, other 5%
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Burundi: |
Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000
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Cambodia: |
Khmer 90%, Vietnamese 5%, Chinese 1%, other 4%
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Cameroon: |
Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African less than 1%
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Canada: |
British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%
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Cape Verde: |
Creole (mulatto) 71%, African 28%, European 1%
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Cayman Islands: |
mixed 40%, white 20%, black 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups 20%
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Central African Republic: |
Baya 34%, Banda 27%, Sara 10%, Mandjia 21%, Mboum 4%, M'Baka 4%, Europeans 6,500 (including 1,500 French)
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Chad: |
Muslims, commonly referred to as "northerners" or "gorane" (Arabs, Toubou, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Kanembou, Baguirmi, Boulala, Zaghawa, and Maba); non-Muslims, commonly referred to as "southerners" (Sara, Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye, Moundang, Moussei, Massa) including nonindigenous 150,000 (of whom 1,000 are French)
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ethnicity and regional background more commonly used to identify Chadians than religious affiliation
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Chile: |
white and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2%
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China: |
Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1%
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Christmas Island: |
Chinese 61%, Malay 25%, European 11%, other 3%, no indigenous population
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands: |
Europeans, Cocos Malays
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Colombia: |
mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1%
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Comoros: |
Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava
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Congo, Democratic Republic of the: |
over 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest tribes - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) make up about 45% of the population
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Congo, Republic of the: |
Kongo 48%, Sangha 20%, M'Bochi 12%, Teke 17%, Europeans NA%; note - Europeans estimated at 8,500, mostly French, before the 1997 civil war; may be half that of 1998, following the widespread destruction of foreign businesses in 1997
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Cook Islands: |
Polynesian (full blood) 81.3%, Polynesian and European 7.7%, Polynesian and non-European 7.7%, European 2.4%, other 0.9%
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Costa Rica: |
white (including mestizo) 94%, black 3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1%
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Cote d'Ivoire: |
Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (1998)
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Croatia: |
Croat 78.1%, Serb 12.2%, Bosniak 0.9%, Hungarian 0.5%, Slovenian 0.5%, Czech 0.4%, Albanian 0.3%, Montenegrin 0.3%, Roma 0.2%, others 6.6% (1991)
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Cuba: |
mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1%
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Cyprus: |
Greek 78% (99.5% of the Greeks live in the Greek Cypriot area; 0.5% of the Greeks live in the Turkish Cypriot area), Turkish 18% (1.3% of the Turks live in the Greek Cypriot area; 98.7% of the Turks live in the Turkish Cypriot area), other 4% (99.2% of the other ethnic groups live in the Greek Cypriot area; 0.8% of the other ethnic groups live in the Turkish Cypriot area)
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Czech Republic: |
Czech 81.2%, Moravian 13.2%, Slovak 3.1%, Polish 0.6%, German 0.5%, Silesian 0.4%, Roma 0.3%, Hungarian 0.2%, other 0.5% (1991)
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Denmark: |
Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali
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Djibouti: |
Somali 60%, Afar 35%, French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian 5%
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Dominica: |
black, Carib Amerindian
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Dominican Republic: |
white 16%, black 11%, mixed 73%
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Ecuador: |
mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3%
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Egypt: |
Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek, Nubian, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1%
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El Salvador: |
mestizo 90%, Amerindian 1%, white 9%
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Equatorial Guinea: |
Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos), Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly Spanish
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Eritrea: |
ethnic Tigrinya 50%, Tigre and Kunama 40%, Afar 4%, Saho (Red Sea coast dwellers) 3%
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Estonia: |
Estonian 65.1%, Russian 28.1%, Ukrainian 2.5%, Byelorussian 1.5%, Finn 1%, other 1.8% (1998)
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Ethiopia: |
Oromo 40%, Amhara and Tigre 32%, Sidamo 9%, Shankella 6%, Somali 6%, Afar 4%, Gurage 2%, other 1%
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Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): |
British
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Faroe Islands: |
Scandinavian
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Fiji: |
Fijian 51% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture), Indian 44%, European, other Pacific Islanders, overseas Chinese, and other 5% (1998 est.)
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Finland: |
Finn 93%, Swede 6%, Sami 0.11%, Roma 0.12%, Tatar 0.02%
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France: |
Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities
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French Guiana: |
black or mulatto 66%, white 12%, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian 12%, other 10%
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French Polynesia: |
Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4%
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Gabon: |
Bantu tribes including four major tribal groupings (Fang, Eshira, Bapounou, Bateke), other Africans and Europeans 154,000, including 10,700 French and 11,000 persons of dual nationality
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Gambia, The: |
African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-African 1%
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Gaza Strip: |
Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6%
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Georgia: |
Georgian 70.1%, Armenian 8.1%, Russian 6.3%, Azeri 5.7%, Ossetian 3%, Abkhaz 1.8%, other 5%
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Germany: |
German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Russian, Greek, Polish, Spanish)
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Ghana: |
black African 99.8% (major tribes - Akan 44%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga 8%), European and other 0.2%
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Gibraltar: |
Spanish, Italian, English, Maltese, Portuguese
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Greece: |
Greek 98%, other 2%
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the Greek Government states there are no ethnic divisions in Greece
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Greenland: |
Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (January 2000)
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Grenada: |
black 82% some South Asians (East Indians) and Europeans, trace Arawak/Carib Amerindian
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Guadeloupe: |
black or mulatto 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese less than 5%
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Guam: |
Chamorro 47%, Filipino 25%, white 10%, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other 18%
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Guatemala: |
Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino), approximately 55%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 43%, whites and others 2%
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Guernsey: |
UK and Norman-French descent
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Guinea: |
Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10%
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Guinea-Bissau: |
African 99% (Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1%
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Guyana: |
East Indian 49%, black 32%, mixed 12%, Amerindian 6%, white and Chinese 1%
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Haiti: |
black 95%, mulatto and white 5%
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Holy See (Vatican City): |
Italians, Swiss, other
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Honduras: |
mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1%
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Hong Kong: |
Chinese 95%, other 5%
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Hungary: |
Hungarian 89.9%, Roma 4%, German 2.6%, Serb 2%, Slovak 0.8%, Romanian 0.7%
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Iceland: |
homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts
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India: |
Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
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Indonesia: |
Javanese 45%, Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5%, coastal Malays 7.5%, other 26%
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Iran: |
Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1%
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Iraq: |
Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5%
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Ireland: |
Celtic, English
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Israel: |
Jewish 80.1% (Europe/America-born 32.1%, Israel-born 20.8%, Africa-born 14.6%, Asia-born 12.6%), non-Jewish 19.9% (mostly Arab) (1996 est.)
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Italy: |
Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)
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Jamaica: |
black 90.9%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.1%
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Japan: |
Japanese 99.4%, Korean 0.6% (1999)
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Jersey: |
UK and Norman-French descent
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Jordan: |
Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1%
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Kazakhstan: |
Kazakh (Qazaq) 53.4%, Russian 30%, Ukrainian 3.7%, Uzbek 2.5%, German 2.4%, Uighur 1.4%, other 6.6% (1999 census)
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Kenya: |
Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1%
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Kiribati: |
predominantly Micronesian with some Polynesian
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Korea, North: |
racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese
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Korea, South: |
homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese)
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Kuwait: |
Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7%
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Kyrgyzstan: |
Kirghiz 52.4%, Russian 18%, Uzbek 12.9%, Ukrainian 2.5%, German 2.4%, other 11.8%
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Laos: |
Lao Loum (lowland) 68%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland) including the Hmong ("Meo") and the Yao (Mien) 9%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1%
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Latvia: |
Latvian 56.5%, Russian 30.4%, Byelorussian 4.3%, Ukrainian 2.8%, Polish 2.6%, other 3.4%
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Lebanon: |
Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1%
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Lesotho: |
Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%,
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Liberia: |
indigenous African tribes 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, and Bella), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been slaves), Congo People 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean who had been slaves)
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Libya: |
Berber and Arab 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians
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Liechtenstein: |
Alemannic 87.5%, Italian, Turkish, and other 12.5%
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Lithuania: |
Lithuanian 80.6%, Russian 8.7%, Polish 7%, Byelorussian 1.6%, other 2.1%
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Luxembourg: |
Celtic base (with French and German blend), Portuguese, Italian, Slavs (from Montenegro, Albania, and Kososvo) and European (guest and resident workers)
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Macau: |
Chinese 95%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry), Portuguese, other
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Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: |
Macedonian 66.6%, Albanian 22.7%, Turkish 4%, Roma 2.2%, Serb 2.1%, other 2.4% (1994)
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Madagascar: |
Malayo-Indonesian (Merina and related Betsileo), Cotiers (mixed African, Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry - Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety, Antaisaka, Sakalava), French, Indian, Creole, Comoran
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Malawi: |
Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuko, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asian, European
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Malaysia: |
Malay and other indigenous 58%, Chinese 27%, Indian 8%, others 7% (2000)
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Maldives: |
South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs
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Mali: |
Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5%
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Malta: |
Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians, with strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock)
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Man, Isle of: |
Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Briton
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Marshall Islands: |
Micronesian
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Martinique: |
African and African-white-Indian mixture 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Chinese less than 5%
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Mauritania: |
mixed Maur/black 40%, Maur 30%, black 30%
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Mauritius: |
Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2%
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Mayotte: |
NA
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Mexico: |
mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1%
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Micronesia, Federated States of: |
nine ethnic Micronesian and Polynesian groups
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Moldova: |
Moldovan/Romanian 64.5%, Ukrainian 13.8%, Russian 13%, Gagauz 3.5%, Jewish 1.5%, Bulgarian 2%, other 1.7% (1989 est.)
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internal disputes with ethnic Slavs in the Transnistrian region
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Monaco: |
French 47%, Monegasque 16%, Italian 16%, other 21%
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Mongolia: |
Mongol (predominantly Khalkha) 85%, Turkic (of which Kazakh is the largest group) 7%, Tungusic 4.6%, other (including Chinese and Russian) 3.4% (1998)
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Montserrat: |
black, white
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Morocco: |
Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2%
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Mozambique: |
indigenous tribal groups 99.66% (Shangaan, Chokwe, Manyika, Sena, Makua, and others), Europeans 0.06%, Euro-Africans 0.2%, Indians 0.08%
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Namibia: |
black 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5%
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about 50% of the population belong to the Ovambo tribe and 9% to the Kavangos tribe; other ethnic groups are: Herero 7%, Damara 7%, Nama 5%, Caprivian 4%, Bushmen 3%, Baster 2%, Tswana 0.5%
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Nauru: |
Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8%
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Nepal: |
Brahman, Chetri, Newar, Gurung, Magar, Tamang, Rai, Limbu, Sherpa, Tharu, and others (1995)
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Netherlands: |
Dutch 91%, Moroccans, Turks, and other 9% (1999 est.)
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Netherlands Antilles: |
mixed black 85%, Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian
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New Caledonia: |
Melanesian 42.5%, European 37.1%, Wallisian 8.4%, Polynesian 3.8%, Indonesian 3.6%, Vietnamese 1.6%, other 3%
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New Zealand: |
New Zealand European 74.5%, Maori 9.7%, other European 4.6%, Pacific Islander 3.8%, Asian and others 7.4%
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Nicaragua: |
mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5%
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Niger: |
Hausa 56%, Djerma 22%, Fula 8.5%, Tuareg 8%, Beri Beri (Kanouri) 4.3%, Arab, Toubou, and Gourmantche 1.2%, about 1,200 French expatriates
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Nigeria: |
Nigeria, which is Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5%
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Niue: |
Polynesian (with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and Tongans)
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Norfolk Island: |
descendants of the Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesians
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Northern Mariana Islands: |
Chamorro, Carolinians and other Micronesians, Caucasian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean
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Norway: |
Norwegian (Nordic, Alpine, Baltic), Sami 20,000
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Oman: |
Arab, Baluchi, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi), African
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Pakistan: |
Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch, Muhajir (immigrants from India at the time of partition and their descendants)
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Palau: |
Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 70%, Asian (mainly Filipinos, followed by Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese) 28%, white 2% (2000 est.)
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Panama: |
mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6%
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Papua New Guinea: |
Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian
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Paraguay: |
mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95%
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Peru: |
Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3%
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Philippines: |
Christian Malay 91.5%, Muslim Malay 4%, Chinese 1.5%, other 3%
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Pitcairn Islands: |
descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives
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Poland: |
Polish 97.6%, German 1.3%, Ukrainian 0.6%, Byelorussian 0.5% (1990 est.)
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Portugal: |
homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000
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Puerto Rico: |
white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed and other 10.9%
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Qatar: |
Arab 40%, Pakistani 18%, Indian 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14%
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Reunion: |
French, African, Malagasy, Chinese, Pakistani, Indian
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Romania: |
Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 7.1%, Roma 1.8%, German 0.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, other 0.8% (1992)
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Russia: |
Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Byelorussian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1%
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Rwanda: |
Hutu 84%, Tutsi 15%, Twa (Pygmoid) 1%
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Saint Helena: |
African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25%
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Saint Kitts and Nevis: |
predominantly black some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese
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Saint Lucia: |
black 90%, mixed 6%, East Indian 3%, white 1%
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon: |
Basques and Bretons (French fishermen)
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: |
black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%
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Samoa: |
Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4%
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San Marino: |
Sammarinese, Italian
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Sao Tome and Principe: |
mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese)
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Saudi Arabia: |
Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10%
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Senegal: |
Wolof 43.3%, Pular 23.8%, Serer 14.7%, Jola 3.7%, Mandinka 3%, Soninke 1.1%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 9.4%
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Seychelles: |
Seychellois (mixture of Asians, Africans, Europeans)
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Sierra Leone: |
20 native African tribes 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
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Singapore: |
Chinese 76.7%, Malay 14%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4%
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Slovakia: |
Slovak 85.7%, Hungarian 10.6%, Roma 1.6% (the 1992 census figures underreport the Gypsy/Romany community, which is about 500,000), Czech, Moravian, Silesian 1.1%, Ruthenian and Ukrainian 0.6%, German 0.1%, Polish 0.1%, other 0.2% (1996)
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Slovenia: |
Slovene 88%, Croat 3%, Serb 2%, Bosniak 1%, Yugoslav 0.6%, Hungarian 0.4%, other 5% (1991)
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Solomon Islands: |
Melanesian 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other 0.4%
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Somalia: |
Somali 85%, Bantu, Arabs 30,000
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South Africa: |
black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6%
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Spain: |
composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types
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Sri Lanka: |
Sinhalese 74%, Tamil 18%, Moor 7%, Burgher, Malay, and Vedda 1%
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Sudan: |
black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1%
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Suriname: |
Hindustani (also known locally as "East Indians"; their ancestors emigrated from northern India in the latter part of the 19th century) 37%, Creole (mixed white and black) 31%, Javanese 15%, "Maroons" (their African ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves and escaped to the interior) 10%, Amerindian 2%, Chinese 2%, white 1%, other 2%
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Svalbard: |
Norwegian 55.4%, Russian and Ukrainian 44.3%, other 0.3% (1998)
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Swaziland: |
African 97%, European 3%
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Sweden: |
indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks
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Switzerland: |
German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6%
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Syria: |
Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%
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Taiwan: |
Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2%
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Tajikistan: |
Tajik 64.9%, Uzbek 25%, Russian 3.5% (declining because of emigration), other 6.6%
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Tanzania: |
mainland - native African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, native African, mixed Arab and native African
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Thailand: |
Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%
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Togo: |
native African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1%
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Tokelau: |
Polynesian
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Tonga: |
Polynesian, Europeans about 300
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Trinidad and Tobago: |
black 39.5%, East Indian (a local term - primarily immigrants from northern India) 40.3%, mixed 18.4%, white 0.6%, Chinese and other 1.2%
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Tunisia: |
Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1%
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Turkey: |
Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20%
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Turkmenistan: |
Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1% (1995)
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Turks and Caicos Islands: |
black
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Tuvalu: |
Polynesian 96%
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Uganda: |
Baganda 17%, Karamojong 12%, Basogo 8%, Iteso 8%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Bunyoro 3%, Batoro 3%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 23%
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Ukraine: |
Ukrainian 73%, Russian 22%, Jewish 1%, other 4%
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United Arab Emirates: |
Emirati 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8% (1982)
note:
less than 20% are UAE citizens (1982)
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United Kingdom: |
English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8%
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United States: |
white 83.5%, black 12.4%, Asian 3.3%, Amerindian 0.8% (1992)
note:
a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (especially of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.)
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Uruguay: |
white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian, practically nonexistent
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Uzbekistan: |
Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5% (1996 est.)
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Vanuatu: |
indigenous Melanesian 94%, French 4%, Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders
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Venezuela: |
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people
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Vietnam: |
Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese, Hmong, Thai, Khmer, Cham, mountain groups
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Virgin Islands: |
black 80%, white 15%, other 5%
note:
West Indian (45% born in the Virgin Islands and 29% born elsewhere in the West Indies) 74%, US mainland 13%, Puerto Rican 5%, other 8%
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Wallis and Futuna: |
Polynesian
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West Bank: |
Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17%
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Western Sahara: |
Arab, Berber
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Yemen: |
predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans
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Yugoslavia: |
Serb 62.6%, Albanian 16.5%, Montenegrin 5%, Hungarian 3.3%, other 12.6% (1991)
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Zambia: |
African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2%
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Zimbabwe: |
African 98% (Shona 71%, Ndebele 16%, other 11%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1%
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