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Ethnic groups in the country are the French and native minorities such as Corsicans, Bretons, Basques and Alsatians. In addition, numerous immigrants and their descendants live in France, including from Europe ( Italians , Spaniards , Portuguese , Romanians ), North Africa ( Algerians , Tunisians , Moroccans ), Sub-Saharan Africa ( Congolese ...
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.
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5] 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. [5] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [13]
Ethnic groups in the Federated States of Micronesia (4 P) Ethnic groups in Moldova (9 C, 9 P) Ethnic groups in Monaco (3 C) Ethnic groups in Mongolia (5 C, 29 P)
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 ...
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.
Statistics South Africa asks people to describe themselves in the census in terms of five racial population groups. [29] The 2011 census figures for these groups were African at 80.2%, White at 8.4%, Coloured at 8.8%, Indian/Asian at 2.5%, and Other/Unspecified at 0.5%. [30] The white percentage of the population has sharply declined.
Greece's population census of 1961 found that 10.9% of the total population was above the age of 65, while the percentage of this group age increased to 19.0% in 2011. In contrast, the percentage of the population of the ages 0–14 had a total decrease of 10.2% between 1961 and 2011.