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The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. 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 ...
The racial diversity of Asia's ethnic groups (original caption: Asiatiska folk), Nordisk familjebok (1904) Ethnicity is used as a matter of cultural identity of a group, often based on shared ancestry, language, and cultural traditions, while race is applied as a taxonomic grouping, based on physical similarities among groups. Race is a more ...
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [7] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [7] The world population more than tripled during the 20th century from about 1.65 billion in 1900 to 5.97 billion in 1999.
Cultural diversity is difficult to quantify. One measure of diversity is the number of identifiable cultures. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs reports that, although their numbers are relatively small, indigenous peoples account for 5,000 distinct cultures and thus the majority of the world's cultural diversity. [11] [9]
Multiculturalism is the coexistence of multiple cultures. The word is used in sociology, in political philosophy, and colloquially. In sociology and everyday usage, it is usually a synonym for ethnic or cultural pluralism [1] in which various ethnic and cultural groups exist in a single society.
Ethnic groups in Abkhazia (1 C, 7 P) Ethnic groups in Afghanistan (21 C, 58 P) Ethnic groups in Albania (14 C, 17 P) Ethnic groups in Algeria (7 C, 25 P) Ethnic groups in Andorra (1 C, 2 P) Ethnic groups in Angola (10 C, 32 P) Ethnic groups in Anguilla (1 C, 1 P) Ethnic groups in Antigua and Barbuda (4 P)
Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. Ancient peoples by continent (3 C) Asian diaspora by continent (9 C) Ethnic groups by continent and country (4 C) Jews and Judaism by continent (14 C) Historical ethnic groups by continent (2 C) Ethnoreligious groups by continent (7 C)