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A map of religious and ethnic communities of Syria and Lebanon (1935) According to the CIA World Factbook, [16] in 2021 the Muslim population was estimated at 60% within Lebanese territory and 20% of the over 4 million [8] [9] [10] Lebanese diaspora population. In 2012 a more detailed breakdown of the size of each Muslim sect in Lebanon was made:
The Lebanese have always traveled the world, many of them settling permanently within the last two centuries. Estimated to have lost their status as the majority in Lebanon itself, with their reduction in numbers largely as a result of their emigration, Christians still remain one of the principal religious groups in the country. [80]
The town of Aït Benhaddou is a typical desert Amazigh town; the Berbers (Amazigh) are the largest non-Arab ethnicity in the Arab world. Berbers are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa. They are distributed in an area stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Niger River.
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Lebanon" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abazins;
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 ...
Lebanon, due to its tense sectarian diversity, has a unique political system, known as confessionalism, in which each religious group is allocated a fixed number of seats in parliament. [2] The country enjoyed a period of relative calm and prosperity before the devastating Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990. [ 3 ]
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 ...
Ethnic groups in Lebanon (16 C, 24 P) Expatriates in Lebanon (76 C, 9 P) I. ... Jews and Judaism in Lebanon (7 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Demographics of Lebanon"