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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 ...
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).
[186] [218] Descendants of immigrants are excluded (Portugal, like many European countries, does not collect data on ethnicity) and those who, regardless of place of birth or citizenship at birth, were Portuguese citizens. Some 100,000 Muslims [219] [220] and 5,000–6,000 Jews (mostly Sephardi such as the Belmonte Jews, and Ashkenazi). [221 ...
Map showing countries where the ethnicity or race of people was enumerated in at least one census since 1991 [needs update]. Many countries and national censuses currently enumerate or have previously enumerated their populations by race, ethnicity, nationality, or a combination of these characteristics.
Below is a summary table of the main foreign nationalities present in Portugal according to the latest AIMA data. [48] As of December 31, 2023, there were 1,044,606 legally resident people in Portugal with foreign citizenship (about 9.82% of the population). These include both citizens born in Portugal with foreign citizenship and foreign ...
Ethnic groups in Asia (44 C, 36 P) E. ... Ethnic groups in North America (26 C, 5 P) O. Ethnic groups in Oceania (38 C, 10 P) S. Ethnic groups in South America (32 C ...
The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries, the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies. See List of extinct countries, empires, etc. and Former countries in Europe after 1815 for articles about countries that are no longer in existence.
Luso-Asians arrived at ports in Europe, North America, Brazil [34] and the Atlantic coasts of Africa. Portuguese ruler and soldiers mounting an Elephant in Myanmar. The dispersal of Luso-Asians occurred very early after the contact between Portugal and the late medieval nations of Asia.