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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).
There are some 5,000 distinct Indigenous peoples spread across every inhabited climate zone and inhabited continent of the world. [6] [7] Most Indigenous peoples are in a minority in the state or traditional territory they inhabit and have experienced domination by other groups, especially non-Indigenous peoples.
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 ...
Ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (26 C, 94 P) Ethnic groups in Denmark (10 C, 14 P) Ethnic groups in Djibouti (2 C, 6 P)
History provides many examples of notable diasporas. The Eurominority.eu map (the European Union) Peoples of the World includes some diasporas and underrepresented/stateless ethnic groups. [1] Note: the list below is not definitive and includes groups that have not been given significant historical attention.
In 1979, many ethnic minorities refused to answer this question due to the fear of deportation. [152] In the 2011 census, the ethnic group options for England and Wales were White, Mixed, Asian British, Black British, Chinese or other ethnic group, and Not stated, with ethnic origin sub-group choices for most of these. [153]
The Jewish population of Europe in 2010 was estimated to be approximately 1.4 million (0.2% of European population) or 10% of the world's Jewish population. [89] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, [89] [90] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine. [90]