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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 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 ...
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [7] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [7] The world population more than tripled during the 20th century from about 1.65 billion in 1900 to 5.97 billion in 1999.
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).
Ethnic groups in Abkhazia (1 C, 7 P) Ethnic groups in Afghanistan (21 C, 58 P) Ethnic groups in Albania (14 C, 17 P) Ethnic groups in Algeria (7 C, 25 P) Ethnic groups in Andorra (1 C, 2 P) Ethnic groups in Angola (10 C, 32 P) Ethnic groups in Anguilla (1 C, 1 P) Ethnic groups in Antigua and Barbuda (4 P)
Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. Ancient peoples by continent (3 C) Asian diaspora by continent (9 C) Ethnic groups by continent and country (4 C) Jews and Judaism by continent (14 C) Historical ethnic groups by continent (2 C) Ethnoreligious groups by continent (7 C)
Palaungic peoples. Wa (Vāx): One of the hill tribes of Myanmar (They are also distributed in Yunnan Province, China in East Asia). Zomi (Zo Pau): One of the Indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia. The word Zomi is the collective name given to many tribes who traced their descent from a common ancestor.
t. e. 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. [1][2] The term ...