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MENA definitions by United Nations agencies and programmes Country or territory World Bank MENA 2003 [8] [9] FAO MENA 2015 [13] UNAIDS MENA 2019 [10] UNICEF MENA 2021 [14] UNHCR MENA 2010 [12] IMF MENA 2003 [11] UNSD WA+NA [15] Afghanistan: No No No No No Yes No Algeria: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Armenia: No No No No No No Yes Azerbaijan: No ...
The MENA region includes the richest oil countries in the world and the poorest such as Yemen and Djibouti. The last places of HDI in the MENA region are Sudan, Djibouti, and Yemen. Data about Palestine is not included in the HDI ranking. The table below shows the MENA countries according to their Human Development Index scores in 2018: [22]
Following consultations with MENA organizations, the Census Bureau announced in 2014 that it would establish a new MENA ethnic category for populations from West Asia, North Africa or the Arab world, separate from the white classification that these populations had previously sought in 1909. The expert groups, including some Jewish ...
Although once considered Asian Americans, the modern definition of "Asian American" now excludes people with West Asian backgrounds. [2] According to the 2020 United States census, over 3.5 million people self-identified as being Middle Eastern and North African ethnic origin. However, this definition includes more than just the Middle East. [3]
Almost 50,000 MENA write-ins, or 1.6%, did so under the Black race category. Among MENA subgroups, people of Lebanese and Syrian backgrounds had the highest percentages of people identifying their race as white, and people who identified as North African, Berber and Moroccan had the highest rates of marking their race as Black.
Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...
Arabs from Morocco to Iraq share a common bond based on ethnicity, language, culture, history, identity, ancestry, nationalism, geography, unity, and politics, [91] which give the region a distinct identity and distinguish it from other parts of the Muslim world. [92]
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include a people of a common language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.