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CIA -- The World Factbook 2000 -- Ethnic groups
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Ethnic groups</font></b><br>(Country profile category: People)</td></TR></TABLE>
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<p><b>Afghanistan:</b>
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Pashtun 38%, Tajik 25%, Uzbek 6%, Hazara 19%, minor ethnic groups (Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch, and others)
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<p><b>Albania:</b>
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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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<p><b>Algeria:</b>
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Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1%
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<p><b>American Samoa:</b>
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Samoan (Polynesian) 89%, Caucasian 2%, Tongan 4%, other 5%
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<p><b>Andorra:</b>
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Spanish 43%, Andorran 33%, Portuguese 11%, French 7%, other 6% (1998)
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<p><b>Angola:</b>
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Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22%
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<p><b>Anguilla:</b>
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black
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<p><b>Antigua and Barbuda:</b>
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black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian
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<p><b>Argentina:</b>
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white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo, Amerindian, or other nonwhite groups 3%
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<p><b>Armenia:</b>
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Armenian 93%, Azeri 3%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 2% (1989)
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<br><i>note:</i>
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as of the end of 1993, virtually all Azeris had emigrated from Armenia
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<p><b>Aruba:</b>
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mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian 80%
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<p><b>Australia:</b>
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Caucasian 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1%
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<p><b>Austria:</b>
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German 98%, Croatian, Slovene, other (includes Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Roma)
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<p><b>Azerbaijan:</b>
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Azeri 90%, Dagestani 3.2%, Russian 2.5%, Armenian 2%, other 2.3% (1998 est.)
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<br><i>note:</i>
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almost all Armenians live in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region
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<p><b>Bahamas, The:</b>
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black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3%
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<p><b>Bahrain:</b>
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Bahraini 63%, Asian 19%, other Arab 10%, Iranian 8%
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<p><b>Bangladesh:</b>
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Bengali 98%, Biharis 250,000, tribals less than 1 million
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<p><b>Barbados:</b>
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black 80%, white 4%, other 16%
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<p><b>Belarus:</b>
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Byelorussian 77.9%, Russian 13.2%, Polish 4.1%, Ukrainian 2.9%, other 1.9%
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<p><b>Belgium:</b>
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Fleming 58%, Walloon 31%, mixed or other 11%
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<p><b>Belize:</b>
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mestizo 44.1%, Creole 31%, Maya 9.2%, Garifuna 6.2%, other 9.5%
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<p><b>Benin:</b>
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African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5,500
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<p><b>Bermuda:</b>
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black 58%, white 36%, other 6%
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<p><b>Bhutan:</b>
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Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35%, indigenous or migrant tribes 15%
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<p><b>Bolivia:</b>
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Quechua 30%, Aymara 25%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, white 15%
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<p><b>Bosnia and Herzegovina:</b>
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Serb 31%, Bosniak 44%, Croat 17%, Yugoslav 5.5%, other 2.5% (1991)
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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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<p><b>Botswana:</b>
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Batswana 95%, Kalanga, Basarwa, and Kgalagadi 4%, white 1%
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<p><b>Brazil:</b>
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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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<p><b>British Virgin Islands:</b>
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black 90%, white, Asian
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<p><b>Brunei:</b>
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Malay 62%, Chinese 15%, indigenous 6%, other 17%
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<p><b>Bulgaria:</b>
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Bulgarian 83%, Turk 8.5%, Roma 2.6%, Macedonia, Armenian, Tatar, Gagauz, Circassian, others (1998)
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<p><b>Burkina Faso:</b>
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Mossi over 40%, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani
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<p><b>Burma:</b>
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Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Mon 2%, Indian 2%, other 5%
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<p><b>Burundi:</b>
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Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000
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<p><b>Cambodia:</b>
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Khmer 90%, Vietnamese 5%, Chinese 1%, other 4%
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<p><b>Cameroon:</b>
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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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<p><b>Canada:</b>
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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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<p><b>Cape Verde:</b>
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Creole (mulatto) 71%, African 28%, European 1%
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<p><b>Cayman Islands:</b>
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mixed 40%, white 20%, black 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups 20%
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<p><b>Central African Republic:</b>
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Baya 34%, Banda 27%, Sara 10%, Mandjia 21%, Mboum 4%, M'Baka 4%, Europeans 6,500 (including 1,500 French)
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<p><b>Chad:</b>
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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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<br><i>note:</i>
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ethnicity and regional background more commonly used to identify Chadians than religious affiliation
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<p><b>Chile:</b>
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white and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2%
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<p><b>China:</b>
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Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1%
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<p><b>Christmas Island:</b>
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Chinese 61%, Malay 25%, European 11%, other 3%, no indigenous population
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<p><b>Cocos (Keeling) Islands:</b>
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Europeans, Cocos Malays
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<p><b>Colombia:</b>
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mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1%
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<p><b>Comoros:</b>
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Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava
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<p><b>Congo, Democratic Republic of the:</b>
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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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<p><b>Congo, Republic of the:</b>
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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 of that in 1998, following the widespread destruction of foreign businesses in 1997
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<p><b>Cook Islands:</b>
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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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<p><b>Costa Rica:</b>
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white (including mestizo) 94%, black 3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1%
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<p><b>Cote d'Ivoire:</b>
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Baoule 23%, Bete 18%, Senoufou 15%, Malinke 11%, Agni, Africans from other countries (mostly Burkinabe and Malians, about 3 million), non-Africans 130,000 to 330,000 (French 30,000 and Lebanese 100,000 to 300,000)
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<p><b>Croatia:</b>
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Croat 78.1%, Serb 12.2%, Muslim 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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<p><b>Cuba:</b>
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mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1%
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<p><b>Cyprus:</b>
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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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<p><b>Czech Republic:</b>
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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% (March 1991)
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<p><b>Denmark:</b>
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Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German
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<p><b>Djibouti:</b>
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Somali 60%, Afar 35%, French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian 5%
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<p><b>Dominica:</b>
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black, Carib Amerindian
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<p><b>Dominican Republic:</b>
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white 16%, black 11%, mixed 73%
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<p><b>Ecuador:</b>
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mestizo (mixed Amerindian and Spanish) 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3%
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<p><b>Egypt:</b>
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Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek, Nubian, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1%
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<p><b>El Salvador:</b>
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mestizo 90%, Amerindian 1%, white 9%
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<p><b>Equatorial Guinea:</b>
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Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos), Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly Spanish
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<p><b>Eritrea:</b>
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ethnic Tigrinya 50%, Tigre and Kunama 40%, Afar 4%, Saho (Red Sea coast dwellers) 3%
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<p><b>Estonia:</b>
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Estonian 65.1%, Russian 28.1%, Ukrainian 2.5%, Byelorussian 1.5%, Finn 1%, other 1.8% (1998)
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<p><b>Ethiopia:</b>
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Oromo 40%, Amhara and Tigre 32%, Sidamo 9%, Shankella 6%, Somali 6%, Afar 4%, Gurage 2%, other 1%
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<p><b>Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):</b>
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British
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<p><b>Faroe Islands:</b>
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Scandinavian
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<p><b>Fiji:</b>
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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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<p><b>Finland:</b>
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Finn 93%, Swede 6%, Lapp 0.11%, Roma 0.12%, Tatar 0.02%
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<p><b>France:</b>
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Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities
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<p><b>French Guiana:</b>
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black or mulatto 66%, white 12%, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian 12%, other 10%
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<p><b>French Polynesia:</b>
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Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4%
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<p><b>Gabon:</b>
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Bantu tribes including four major tribal groupings (Fang, Eshira, Bapounou, Bateke), other Africans and Europeans 154,000, including 6,000 French and 11,000 persons of dual nationality
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<p><b>Gambia, The:</b>
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African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-African 1%
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<p><b>Gaza Strip:</b>
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Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6%
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<p><b>Georgia:</b>
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Georgian 70.1%, Armenian 8.1%, Russian 6.3%, Azeri 5.7%, Ossetian 3%, Abkhaz 1.8%, other 5%
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<p><b>Germany:</b>
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German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Russian, Greek, Polish, Spanish)
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<p><b>Ghana:</b>
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black African 99.8% (major tribes - Akan 44%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga 8%), European and other 0.2%
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<p><b>Gibraltar:</b>
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Italian, English, Maltese, Portuguese, Spanish
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<p><b>Greece:</b>
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Greek 98%, other 2%
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the Greek Government states there are no ethnic divisions in Greece
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<p><b>Greenland:</b>
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Greenlander 87% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 13%
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<p><b>Grenada:</b>
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black 82% some South Asians (East Indians) and Europeans, trace Arawak/Carib Amerindian
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<p><b>Guadeloupe:</b>
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black or mulatto 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese less than 5%
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<p><b>Guam:</b>
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Chamorro 47%, Filipino 25%, white 10%, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other 18%
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<p><b>Guatemala:</b>
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Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino), approximately 56%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 44%
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<p><b>Guernsey:</b>
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UK and Norman-French descent
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<p><b>Guinea:</b>
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Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10%
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<p><b>Guinea-Bissau:</b>
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African 99% (Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1%
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<p><b>Guyana:</b>
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East Indian 51%, black 30%, mixed 14%, Amerindian 4%, white and Chinese 1%
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<p><b>Haiti:</b>
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black 95%, mulatto plus white 5%
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<p><b>Holy See (Vatican City):</b>
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Italians, Swiss, other
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<p><b>Honduras:</b>
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mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1%
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<p><b>Hong Kong:</b>
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Chinese 95%, other 5%
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<p><b>Hungary:</b>
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Hungarian 89.9%, Roma 4%, German 2.6%, Serb 2%, Slovak 0.8%, Romanian 0.7%
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<p><b>Iceland:</b>
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homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norwegians and Celts
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<p><b>India:</b>
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Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3%
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<p><b>Indonesia:</b>
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Javanese 45%, Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5%, coastal Malays 7.5%, other 26%
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<p><b>Iran:</b>
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Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1%
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<p><b>Iraq:</b>
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Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5%
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<p><b>Ireland:</b>
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Celtic, English
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<p><b>Israel:</b>
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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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<p><b>Italy:</b>
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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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<p><b>Jamaica:</b>
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black 90.9%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.1%
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<p><b>Japan:</b>
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Japanese 99.4%, other 0.6% (mostly Korean)
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<p><b>Jersey:</b>
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UK and Norman-French descent
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<p><b>Jordan:</b>
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Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1%
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<p><b>Kazakhstan:</b>
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Kazakh (Qazaq) 46%, Russian 34.7%, Ukrainian 4.9%, German 3.1%, Uzbek 2.3%, Tatar 1.9%, other 7.1% (1996)
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<p><b>Kenya:</b>
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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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<p><b>Kiribati:</b>
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Micronesian
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<p><b>Korea, North:</b>
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racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese
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<p><b>Korea, South:</b>
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homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese)
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<p><b>Kuwait:</b>
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Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7%
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<p><b>Kyrgyzstan:</b>
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Kirghiz 52.4%, Russian 18%, Uzbek 12.9%, Ukrainian 2.5%, German 2.4%, other 11.8%
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<p><b>Laos:</b>
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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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<p><b>Latvia:</b>
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Latvian 56.5%, Russian 30.4%, Byelorussian 4.3%, Ukrainian 2.8%, Polish 2.6%, other 3.4%
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<p><b>Lebanon:</b>
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Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1%
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<p><b>Lesotho:</b>
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Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%,
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<p><b>Liberia:</b>
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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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<p><b>Libya:</b>
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<br>
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Berber and Arab 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians
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<p><b>Liechtenstein:</b>
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<br>
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Alemannic 87.5%, Italian, Turkish, and other 12.5%
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<p><b>Lithuania:</b>
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<br>
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Lithuanian 80.6%, Russian 8.7%, Polish 7%, Byelorussian 1.6%, other 2.1%
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<p><b>Luxembourg:</b>
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<br>
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Celtic base (with French and German blend), Portuguese, Italian, and European (guest and worker residents)
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<p><b>Macau:</b>
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<br>
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Chinese 95%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry), Portuguese, other
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<p><b>Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:</b>
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<br>
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Macedonian 66.6%, Albanian 22.7%, Turkish 4%, Roma 2.2%, Serb 2.1%, other 2.4% (1994)
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<p><b>Madagascar:</b>
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<br>
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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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<p><b>Malawi:</b>
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<br>
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Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuko, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asian, European
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<p><b>Malaysia:</b>
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<br>
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Malay and other indigenous 58%, Chinese 26%, Indian 7%, others 9%
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<p><b>Maldives:</b>
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<br>
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South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs
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<p><b>Mali:</b>
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<br>
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Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5%
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<p><b>Malta:</b>
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<br>
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Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians, with strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock)
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<p><b>Man, Isle of:</b>
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<br>
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Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Briton
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<p><b>Marshall Islands:</b>
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<br>
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Micronesian
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<p><b>Martinique:</b>
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<br>
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African and African-white-Indian mixture 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese less than 5%
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<p><b>Mauritania:</b>
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<br>
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mixed Maur/black 40%, Maur 30%, black 30%
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<p><b>Mauritius:</b>
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<br>
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Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2%
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<p><b>Mayotte:</b>
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<br>
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NA
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<p><b>Mexico:</b>
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<br>
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mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1%
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<p><b>Micronesia, Federated States of:</b>
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<br>
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nine ethnic Micronesian and Polynesian groups
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<p><b>Moldova:</b>
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<br>
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Moldavian/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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<br><i>note:</i>
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internal disputes with ethnic Slavs in the Transnistrian region
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<p><b>Monaco:</b>
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<br>
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French 47%, Monegasque 16%, Italian 16%, other 21%
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<p><b>Mongolia:</b>
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<br>
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Mongol 90%, Kazakh 4%, other 6%
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<p><b>Montserrat:</b>
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<br>
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black, white
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<p><b>Morocco:</b>
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<br>
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Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2%
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<p><b>Mozambique:</b>
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<br>
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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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<p><b>Namibia:</b>
|
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<br>
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black 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5%
|
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<br><i>note:</i>
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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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<p><b>Nauru:</b>
|
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<br>
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Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8%
|
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<p><b>Nepal:</b>
|
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<br>
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Newars, Indians, Tibetans, Gurungs, Magars, Tamangs, Bhotias, Rais, Limbus, Sherpas
|
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<p><b>Netherlands:</b>
|
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<br>
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Dutch 91%, Moroccans, Turks, and other 9% (1999 est.)
|
|
<p><b>Netherlands Antilles:</b>
|
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<br>
|
|
mixed black 85%, Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian
|
|
<p><b>New Caledonia:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Melanesian 42.5%, European 37.1%, Wallisian 8.4%, Polynesian 3.8%, Indonesian 3.6%, Vietnamese 1.6%, other 3%
|
|
<p><b>New Zealand:</b>
|
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<br>
|
|
New Zealand European 74.5%, Maori 9.7%, other European 4.6%, Pacific Islander 3.8%, Asian and others 7.4%
|
|
<p><b>Nicaragua:</b>
|
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<br>
|
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mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5%
|
|
<p><b>Niger:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
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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|
<p><b>Nigeria:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
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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|
<p><b>Niue:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Polynesian (with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and Tongans)
|
|
<p><b>Norfolk Island:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
descendants of the Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesians
|
|
<p><b>Northern Mariana Islands:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Chamorro, Carolinians and other Micronesians, Caucasian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean
|
|
<p><b>Norway:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Norwegian (Nordic, Alpine, Baltic), Lapps (Sami) 20,000
|
|
<p><b>Oman:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Arab, Baluchi, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi), African
|
|
<p><b>Pakistan:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch, Muhajir (immigrants from India at the time of partition and their descendants)
|
|
<p><b>Palau:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Palauans are Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures
|
|
<p><b>Panama:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6%
|
|
<p><b>Papua New Guinea:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian
|
|
<p><b>Paraguay:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95%
|
|
<p><b>Peru:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3%
|
|
<p><b>Philippines:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Christian Malay 91.5%, Muslim Malay 4%, Chinese 1.5%, other 3%
|
|
<p><b>Pitcairn Islands:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives
|
|
<p><b>Poland:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Polish 97.6%, German 1.3%, Ukrainian 0.6%, Byelorussian 0.5% (1990 est.)
|
|
<p><b>Portugal:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000
|
|
<p><b>Puerto Rico:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
NA
|
|
<p><b>Qatar:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Arab 40%, Pakistani 18%, Indian 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14%
|
|
<p><b>Reunion:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
French, African, Malagasy, Chinese, Pakistani, Indian
|
|
<p><b>Romania:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 7.1%, Roma 1.8%, German 0.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, other 0.8% (1992)
|
|
<p><b>Russia:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Byelorussian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1%
|
|
<p><b>Rwanda:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Hutu 84%, Tutsi 15%, Twa (Pygmoid) 1%
|
|
<p><b>Saint Helena:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
African descent, white
|
|
<p><b>Saint Kitts and Nevis:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
predominantly black some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese
|
|
<p><b>Saint Lucia:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
black 90%, mixed 6%, East Indian 3%, white 1%
|
|
<p><b>Saint Pierre and Miquelon:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Basques and Bretons (French fishermen)
|
|
<p><b>Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%
|
|
<p><b>Samoa:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4%
|
|
<p><b>San Marino:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Sammarinese, Italian
|
|
<p><b>Sao Tome and Principe:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
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)
|
|
<p><b>Saudi Arabia:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10%
|
|
<p><b>Senegal:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Wolof 43.3%, Pular 23.8%, Serer 14.7%, Jola 3.7%, Mandinka 3%, Soninke 1.1%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 9.4%
|
|
<p><b>Serbia and Montenegro:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Serb 62.6%, Albanian 16.5%, Montenegrin 5%, Yugoslav 3.4%, Hungarian 3.3%, other 9.2% (1991)
|
|
<p><b>Seychelles:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Seychellois (mixture of Asians, Africans, Europeans)
|
|
<p><b>Sierra Leone:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
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-eighteenth century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
|
|
<p><b>Singapore:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Chinese 77%, Malay 14%, Indian 7.6%, other 1.4%
|
|
<p><b>Slovakia:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Slovak 85.7%, Hungarian 10.6%, Gypsy 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)
|
|
<p><b>Slovenia:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Slovene 88%, Croat 3%, Serb 2%, Bosniak 1%, Yugoslav 0.6%, Hungarian 0.4%, other 5% (1991)
|
|
<p><b>Solomon Islands:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Melanesian 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other 0.4%
|
|
<p><b>Somalia:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Somali 85%, Bantu, Arabs 30,000
|
|
<p><b>South Africa:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6%
|
|
<p><b>Spain:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types
|
|
<p><b>Sri Lanka:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Sinhalese 74%, Tamil 18%, Moor 7%, Burgher, Malay, and Vedda 1%
|
|
<p><b>Sudan:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1%
|
|
<p><b>Suriname:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
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%
|
|
<p><b>Svalbard:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Russian and Ukrainian 62%, Norwegian 38%, other NEGL% (1994)
|
|
<p><b>Swaziland:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
African 97%, European 3%
|
|
<p><b>Sweden:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Lapp (Sami) minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks
|
|
<p><b>Switzerland:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6%
|
|
<p><b>Syria:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%
|
|
<p><b>Tajikistan:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Tajik 64.9%, Uzbek 25%, Russian 3.5% (declining because of emigration), other 6.6%
|
|
<p><b>Tanzania:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
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
|
|
<p><b>Thailand:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%
|
|
<p><b>Togo:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
native African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1%
|
|
<p><b>Tokelau:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Polynesian
|
|
<p><b>Tonga:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Polynesian, Europeans about 300
|
|
<p><b>Trinidad and Tobago:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
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%
|
|
<p><b>Tunisia:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1%
|
|
<p><b>Turkey:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20%
|
|
<p><b>Turkmenistan:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1% (1995)
|
|
<p><b>Turks and Caicos Islands:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
black
|
|
<p><b>Tuvalu:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Polynesian 96%
|
|
<p><b>Uganda:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Baganda 17%, Karamojong 12%, Basogo 8%, Iteso 8%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Bunyoro 3%, Batobo 3%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 23%
|
|
<p><b>Ukraine:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Ukrainian 73%, Russian 22%, Jewish 1%, other 4%
|
|
<p><b>United Arab Emirates:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Emiri 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8% (1982)
|
|
<br><i>note:</i>
|
|
less than 20% are UAE citizens (1982)
|
|
<p><b>United Kingdom:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8%
|
|
<p><b>United States:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
white 83.5%, black 12.4%, Asian 3.3%, Amerindian 0.8% (1992)
|
|
<br><i>note:</i>
|
|
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.)
|
|
<p><b>Uruguay:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian, practically nonexistent
|
|
<p><b>Uzbekistan:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5% (1996 est.)
|
|
<p><b>Vanuatu:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
indigenous Melanesian 94%, French 4%, Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders
|
|
<p><b>Venezuela:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people
|
|
<p><b>Vietnam:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese 3%, Muong, Tai, Meo, Khmer, Man, Cham
|
|
<p><b>Virgin Islands:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
black 80%, white 15%, other 5%
|
|
<br><i>note:</i>
|
|
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%
|
|
<p><b>Wallis and Futuna:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Polynesian
|
|
<p><b>West Bank:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17%
|
|
<p><b>Western Sahara:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Arab, Berber
|
|
<p><b>Yemen:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans
|
|
<p><b>Zambia:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2%
|
|
<p><b>Zimbabwe:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
African 98% (Shona 71%, Ndebele 16%, other 11%), white 1%, mixed and Asian 1%
|
|
<p><b>Taiwan:</b>
|
|
<br>
|
|
Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2%
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