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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 ...
In Fearon's analysis, only groups containing over one percent of the country's population were considered. This limit made Papua New Guinea an outlier; as none of its thousands of groups included more than one percent of the population, it was considered to have zero groups and thus have a perfect fractionalization score of 1.
Map showing countries where the ethnicity or race of people was enumerated in at least one census since 1991 [needs update]. Many countries and national censuses currently enumerate or have previously enumerated their populations by race, ethnicity, nationality, or a combination of these characteristics.
The overall population of the world is approximately 8 billion as of November 2022. Currently, population growth is fastest among low wealth, least developed countries. [20] The UN projects a world population of 9.15 billion in 2050, a 32.7% increase from 6.89 billion in 2010. [16]
List of Chinese administrative divisions by population; List of countries by age structure; List of countries by dependency ratio; List of countries by ethnic and cultural diversity level; List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rates; List of countries by life expectancy; List of countries by maternal mortality ratio
Category: Demographics by country. 83 languages. Afrikaans; ... Race by country (4 C) A. Demographics of Abkhazia (1 C, 1 P) Demographics of Afghanistan (6 C, 1 P)
Those countries no longer hold the majority: As of 2023, for the first time since the U.S. has collected such data, half of all migrants who cross the border now come from elsewhere globally.
Population and housing censuses for Mauritius was collected in 1972, 1983, 2000, and 2011; although respondents were asked to identify their race/ethnic origin in the 1972 census, this question was dropped from the following censuses because "the government felt that it was a divisive question". [14]