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While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
Ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization (2003) [4] Country Ethnic fractionalization Linguistic fractionalization Religious fractionalization Afghanistan: 0.7693 0.6141 0.2717 Albania: 0.2204 0.0399 0.4719 Algeria: 0.3394 0.4427 0.0091 American Samoa: 0.0000 0.1733 0.6395 Andorra: 0.7139 0.6848 0.2326 Angola: 0.7867 0.7870 0.6276
The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups.Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing (clothing) style and ...
Painting of Bimbache of El Hierro by Leonardo Torriani, 1592 The San are the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa. Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which have a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, and may consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories ...
Ethnic groups in São Tomé and Príncipe (3 C, 2 P) Ethnic groups in Saudi Arabia (5 C, 18 P) Ethnic groups in Senegal (11 C, 26 P) Ethnic groups in Serbia (24 C, 48 P)
Filipino diaspora – one of the largest diasporas that came from Asia (amounting approximately 20 million) made up of a variety of ethnic, linguistic and regional groups that are originally from the Philippines and live around the world, often for Southeast Asia, East Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, North America, and Europe. Majority of them ...
In the most recent census in 2002, 64.2% of the population declared themselves to be ethnic Macedonians. The second-largest ethnic group in the country was the ethnic Albanians with 25.2%. Other major ethnic groups were Turks (3.9%), Romani (2.7%), and Serbs (1.8%). [125]
Russia, as the largest country in the world, has great ethnic diversity.It is a multinational state and home to over 190 ethnic groups countrywide. According to the population census at the end of 2021, more than 147.1 million people lived in Russia, which is 4.3 million more than in the 2010 census, or 3.03%.