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According to the most recent U.S. census, the non-Hispanic White population is shrinking (US Census Bureau, 2018). This trend has been observed in other White-majority countries including Canada (Statistics Canada, 2017), the UK (Coleman, 2016), and New Zealand (Stats New Zealand, 2004).
Figures for the population of Europe vary according to the particular definition of Europe's boundaries. In 2018, Europe had a total population of over 751 million people. [1] [2] 448 million of them lived in the European Union and 110 million in European Russia; Russia is the most populous country in Europe.
The World Factbook reports white people being 17% of the Nicaragua's population, with an additional 69% of the population being Mestizo, which is described as mixed indigenous and white. [175] In the nineteenth century, Nicaragua was the subject of central European immigration, mostly from Germany , England and the United States , who often ...
As of 2009, the average birth rate (unclear whether this is the weighted average rate per country [with each country getting a weight of 1], or the unweighted average of the entire world population) for the whole world is 19.95 per year per 1000 total population, a 0.48% decline from 2003's world birth rate of 20.43 per 1000 total population.
A 1999 study revealed that white people in the country had lower mortality rates from stroke than black people. [ 85 ] In 2007, professor Andrew Hattersley studied the genomes of whites in the United Kingdom (as well as Finland and Italy), discovering what some researchers described as the first clear genetic link, via the FTO gene , to obesity .
Pixabay/Public Domain. 14. Uruguay. With 87% of the country’s population being white (or 2.94 million people), Uruguay certainly deserves an important place among the countries with the largest ...
Since 1850, the United States enumerated its population by their country of birth of its population. [189] The whole U.S. population was enumerated by country of birth between 1850 and 1930 and again from 1960 to the present day. [189] Meanwhile, only the White population of the United States was enumerated by their country of birth in 1940 and ...
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 ...