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The mother tongue of almost all Mauritians is the Mauritian Creole, while a minority of Indo-Mauritians still use both their ancestral language and Mauritian Creole at home. Indo-Mauritians use their native languages mostly in religious activities, some of them include Bhojpuri, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Urdu.
The Indo-Mauritian population consists of Hindu, Muslim, and Christian descendants of Indian laborers. Mauritian Creoles (descendants of Africans ) are thirty-eight percent of the population. Today, a significant proportion of Creoles are of African descent, with varying amounts of French and Indian ancestry .
There are more than 600 ethnic groups [1] in the multicultural Indonesian archipelago, making it one of the most diverse countries in the world. The vast majority of these belong to the Austronesian peoples, concentrated in western and central Indonesia (), with a sizable minority are Melanesian peoples concentrated in eastern Indonesia ().
Included in the Indo-Mauritian community are Hindus (48.5% of the Mauritian population) and Muslims (17.2%) from the Indian subcontinent. The Franco-Mauritian elite controlled nearly all of the large sugar estates and was active in business and banking. As the Indian population became numerically dominant after independence from British rule ...
The new classification categorized 1,331 coded ethnicities from the census into more than 600 groups instead of just 31 in the initial classification, [4] completely dissolved the placeholder "ethnic groups from X" categories to better capture the diversity of Indonesia's ethnic demography, [5] corrected misplaced groups and subgroups, [6] and ...
According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, there were about 120,000 people of Indian origin as well as 9,000 Indian nationals living and working in Indonesia as of January 2012. [3] Most of them were concentrated in the province of North Sumatra and urban areas such as Banda Aceh , Surabaya , Medan , and Jakarta .
At this rate, Indonesia's population is projected to surpass the population of the United States if the recent population growth continues. [6] Indonesia has a relatively young population compared to Western nations, though it is aging as the country's birth rate has slowed and its life expectancy has increased. The median age was 30.2 years in ...
Except for one, all Mauritian Prime Ministers have been of Bihari Vaishya descent. [1] [2] [3] The community includes a Hindu majority with a Muslim minority. About 65.7 % of the 1.3 million population of Mauritius is of Indian origin, most of them from Bihar state, with Bhojpuri as their ancestral tongue. [citation needed]