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The location of various ethnic groups within Cambodia in 1972. The largest of the ethnic groups in Cambodia are the Khmer, who comprise 95.8% of the total population [1] and primarily inhabit the lowland Mekong subregion and the central plains.
Khmer is an Austroasiatic language spoken by over 90% of the Cambodian population. [17] The vast majority of Khmer speakers use the Central Khmer dialect. Central Khmer is the variety spoken in the central plain where the ethnic Khmers most heavily concentrate.
As of 2010, half of the Cambodian population is younger than 22 years old. At a 1.04 female to male ratio, Cambodia has the most female-biased sex ratio in the Greater Mekong Subregion. [210] Among the Cambodian population aged over 65, the female to male ratio is 1.6:1. [85] The total fertility rate in Cambodia was 2.5 children per woman in ...
The genetic testing website 23andMe groups Khmer people under the "Indonesian, Khmer, Thai & Myanmar" reference population. This reference population contains people who have had recent ancestors from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. [56]
The Cambodian genocide [a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens [b] by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 (c. 7.8 million). [3] [4]
The Chams (Cham: ꨌꩌ, چام, cam), or Champa people (Cham: ꨂꨣꩃ ꨌꩌꨛꨩ, اوراڠ چامفا, Urang Campa; [8] Vietnamese: Người Chăm or Người Chàm; Khmer: ជនជាតិចាម, Chônchéatĕ Cham), are an Austronesian ethnic group in Southeast Asia and are the original inhabitants of central Vietnam and coastal Cambodia before the arrival of the Cambodians and ...
The Khmer Lao population is hard to estimate as they are not considered indigenous minorities by the Cambodian government and have to either register as Khmer or Laotian citizen during censuses. It is suggested that over half of Stung Treng's population may be ethnic Lao, with a smaller population in Ratanakiri Province.
Vietnamese Cambodians refers to ethnic group of Vietnamese who live in Cambodia or it refers to Vietnamese who are of full or partial Khmer descent (mainly Khmer Krom in Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam nowadays, also often called as Khmer Mekong). According to Cambodian sources, in 2013, about 15,000 Vietnamese people live in Cambodia.