| Country | Ethnic groups |
Aruba | mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian 80% |
Antigua and Barbuda | black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian |
United Arab Emirates | Emirati 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8% (1982) |
Afghanistan | Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4% |
Algeria | Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% |
Azerbaijan | Azeri 90.6%, Dagestani 2.2%, Russian 1.8%, Armenian 1.5%, other 3.9% (1999 census) |
Albania | Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Roma (Gypsy), Serb, Macedonian, Bulgarian) (1989 est.) |
Armenia | Armenian 97.9%, Yezidi (Kurd) 1.3%, Russian 0.5%, other 0.3% (2001 census) |
Andorra | Spanish 43%, Andorran 33%, Portuguese 11%, French 7%, other 6% (1998) |
Angola | Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22% |
American Samoa | native Pacific islander 92.9%, Asian 2.9%, white 1.2%, mixed 2.8%, other 0.2% (2000 census) |
Argentina | white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry), Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3% |
Australia | Caucasian 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1% |
Ashmore and Cartier Islands | |
Austria | Austrians 91.1%, former Yugoslavs 4% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Serbs, and Bosniaks), Turks 1.6%, German 0.9%, other or unspecified 2.4% (2001 census) |
Anguilla | black (predominant) 90.1%, mixed, mulatto 4.6%, white 3.7%, other 1.6% (2001 Census) |
Akrotiri | |
Antarctica | |
Bahrain | Bahraini 62.4%, non-Bahraini 37.6% (2001 census) |
Barbados | black 90%, white 4%, Asian and mixed 6% |
Botswana | Tswana (or Setswana) 79%, Kalanga 11%, Basarwa 3%, other, including Kgalagadi and white 7% |
Bermuda | black 54.8%, white 34.1%, mixed 6.4%, other races 4.3%, unspecified 0.4% (2000 census) |
Belgium | Fleming 58%, Walloon 31%, mixed or other 11% |
Bahamas, The | black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3% |
Bangladesh | Bengali 98%, tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims (1998) |
Belize | mestizo 48.7%, Creole 24.9%, Maya 10.6%, Garifuna 6.1%, other 9.7% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serb 37.1%, Bosniak 48%, Croat 14.3%, other 0.6% (2000) |
Bolivia | Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15% |
Burma | Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Indian 2%, Mon 2%, other 5% |
Benin | African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5,500 |
Belarus | Belarusian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish 3.9%, Ukrainian 2.4%, other 1.1% (1999 census) |
Solomon Islands | Melanesian 94.5%, Polynesian 3%, Micronesian 1.2%, other 1.1%, unspecified 0.2% (1999 census) |
Navassa Island | |
Brazil | white 53.7%, mulatto (mixed white and black) 38.5%, black 6.2%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 0.9%, unspecified 0.7% (2000 census) |
Bassas da India | |
Bhutan | Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35% (includes Lhotsampas - one of several Nepalese ethnic groups), indigenous or migrant tribes 15% |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian 83.9%, Turk 9.4%, Roma 4.7%, other 2% (including Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Circassian) (2001 census) |
Bouvet Island | |
Brunei | Malay 67%, Chinese 15%, indigenous 6%, other 12% |
Burundi | Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000 |
Canada | British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26% |
Cambodia | Khmer 90%, Vietnamese 5%, Chinese 1%, other 4% |
Chad | 200 distinct groups; in the north and center: Arabs, Gorane (Toubou, Daza, Kreda), Zaghawa, Kanembou, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Hausa, Boulala, and Maba, most of whom are Muslim; in the south: Sara (Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye), Moundang, Moussei, Massa, most of whom are Christian or animist; about 1,000 French citizens live in Chad |
Sri Lanka | Sinhalese 73.8%, Sri Lankan Moors 7.2%, Indian Tamil 4.6%, Sri Lankan Tamil 3.9%, other 0.5%, unspecified 10% (2001 census provisional data) |
Congo, Republic of the | Kongo 48%, Sangha 20%, M'Bochi 12%, Teke 17%, Europeans and other 3% |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | over 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest tribes - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) make up about 45% of the population |
China | Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1% |
Chile | white and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2% |
Cayman Islands | mixed 40%, white 20%, black 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups 20% |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Europeans, Cocos Malays |
Cameroon | Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African less than 1% |
Comoros | Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava |
Colombia | mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1% |
Northern Mariana Islands | Asian 56.3%, Pacific islander 36.3%, Caucasian 1.8%, other 0.8%, mixed 4.8% (2000 census) |
Coral Sea Islands | |
Costa Rica | white (including mestizo) 94%, black 3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1% |
Central African Republic | Baya 33%, Banda 27%, Mandjia 13%, Sara 10%, Mboum 7%, M'Baka 4%, Yakoma 4%, other 2% |
Cuba | mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1% |
Cape Verde | Creole (mulatto) 71%, African 28%, European 1% |
Cook Islands | Cook Island Maori (Polynesian) 87.7%, part Cook Island Maori 5.8%, other 6.5% (2001 census) |
Cyprus | Greek 77%, Turkish 18%, other 5% (2001) |
Denmark | Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali |
Djibouti | Somali 60%, Afar 35%, French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian 5% |
Dominica | black, mixed black and European, European, Syrian, Carib Amerindian |
Jarvis Island | |
Dominican Republic | white 16%, black 11%, mixed 73% |
Dhekelia | |
Ecuador | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3% |
European Union | |
Egypt | Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek, Nubian, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1% |
Ireland | Celtic, English |
Equatorial Guinea | Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos), Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly Spanish |
Estonia | Estonian 67.9%, Russian 25.6%, Ukrainian 2.1%, Belarusian 1.3%, Finn 0.9%, other 2.2% (2000 census) |
Eritrea | ethnic Tigrinya 50%, Tigre and Kunama 40%, Afar 4%, Saho (Red Sea coast dwellers) 3%, other 3% |
El Salvador | mestizo 90%, white 9%, Amerindian 1% |
Ethiopia | Oromo 40%, Amhara and Tigre 32%, Sidamo 9%, Shankella 6%, Somali 6%, Afar 4%, Gurage 2%, other 1% |
Europa Island | |
Czech Republic | Czech 90.4%, Moravian 3.7%, Slovak 1.9%, other 4% (2001 census) |
French Guiana | black or mulatto 66%, white 12%, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian 12%, other 10% |
Finland | Finn 93.4%, Swede 5.7%, Russian 0.4%, Estonian 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Sami 0.1% |
Fiji | Fijian 51% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture), Indian 44%, European, other Pacific Islanders, overseas Chinese, and other 5% (1998 est.) |
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | British |
Micronesia, Federated States of | nine ethnic Micronesian and Polynesian groups |
Faroe Islands | Scandinavian |
French Polynesia | Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4% |
Baker Island | |
France | Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities |
French Southern and Antarctic Lands | |
Gambia, The | African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-African 1% |
Gabon | Bantu tribes including four major tribal groupings (Fang, Bapounou, Nzebi, Obamba), other Africans and Europeans 154,000, including 10,700 French and 11,000 persons of dual nationality |
Georgia | Georgian 83.8%, Azeri 6.5%, Armenian 5.7%, Russian 1.5%, other 2.5% (2002 census) |
Ghana | black African 98.5% (major tribes - Akan 44%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga 8%, Gurma 3%, Yoruba 1%), European and other 1.5% (1998) |
Gibraltar | Spanish, Italian, English, Maltese, Portuguese, German, North Africans |
Grenada | black 82%, mixed black and European 13%, European and East Indian 5%, and trace of Arawak/Carib Amerindian |
Guernsey | UK and Norman-French descent with small percentages from other European countries |
Greenland | Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (January 2000) |
Germany | German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) |
Glorioso Islands | |
Guadeloupe | black or mulatto 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese less than 5% |
Guam | Chamorro 37.1%, Filipino 26.3%, other Pacific islander 11.3%, white 6.9%, other Asian 6.3%, other ethnic origin or race 2.3%, mixed 9.8% (2000 census) |
Greece | Greek 98%, other 2% |
Guatemala | Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish - in local Spanish called Ladino) and European 59.4%, K'iche 9.1%, Kaqchikel 8.4%, Mam 7.9%, Q'eqchi 6.3%, other Mayan 8.6%, indigenous non-Mayan 0.2%, other 0.1% (2001 census) |
Guinea | Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10% |
Guyana | East Indian 50%, black 36%, Amerindian 7%, white, Chinese, and mixed 7% |
Gaza Strip | Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6% |
Haiti | black 95%, mulatto and white 5% |
Hong Kong | Chinese 95%, other 5% |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands | |
Honduras | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1% |
Howland Island | |
Croatia | Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma) (2001 census) |
Hungary | Hungarian 92.3%, Roma 1.9%, other or unknown 5.8% (2001 census) |
Iceland | homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%, population of foreign origin 6% |
Indonesia | Javanese 45%, Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5%, coastal Malays 7.5%, other 26% |
Man, Isle of | Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Briton |
India | Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000) |
British Indian Ocean Territory | |
Clipperton Island | |
Iran | Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1% |
Israel | Jewish 80.1% (Europe/America-born 32.1%, Israel-born 20.8%, Africa-born 14.6%, Asia-born 12.6%), non-Jewish 19.9% (mostly Arab) (1996 est.) |
Italy | Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south) |
Iraq | Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5% |
Japan | Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914) |
Jersey | Jersey 51.1%, British 34.8%, Irish, French, and other white 6.6%, Portuguese/Madeiran 6.4%, other 1.1% (2001 census) |
Jamaica | black 90.9%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.1% |
Jan Mayen | |
Jordan | Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1% |
Johnston Atoll | |
Juan de Nova Island | |
Kenya | Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1% |
Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyz 64.9%, Uzbek 13.8%, Russian 12.5%, Dungan 1.1%, Ukrainian 1%, Uygur 1%, other 5.7% (1999 census) |
Korea, North | racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese |
Kingman Reef | |
Kiribati | Micronesian 98.8%, other 1.2% (2000 census) |
Korea, South | homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) |
Christmas Island | Chinese 70%, European 20%, Malay 10% |
Kuwait | Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7% |
Kazakhstan | Kazakh (Qazaq) 53.4%, Russian 30%, Ukrainian 3.7%, Uzbek 2.5%, German 2.4%, Tatar 1.7%, Uygur 1.4%, other 4.9% (1999 census) |
Laos | Lao Loum (lowland) 68%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland) including the Hmong and the Yao 9%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1% |
Lebanon | Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% |
Latvia | Latvian 57.7%, Russian 29.6%, Belarusian 4.1%, Ukrainian 2.7%, Polish 2.5%, Lithuanian 1.4%, other 2% (2002) |
Lithuania | Lithuanian 83.4%, Polish 6.7%, Russian 6.3%, other or unspecified 3.6% (2001 census) |
Liberia | indigenous African tribes 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei, Bella, Mandingo, and Mende), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been slaves), Congo People 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean who had been slaves) |
Slovakia | Slovak 85.8%, Hungarian 9.7%, Roma 1.7%, Ruthenian/Ukrainian 1%, other and unspecified 1.8% (2001 census) |
Palmyra Atoll | |
Liechtenstein | Alemannic 86%, Italian, Turkish, and other 14% |
Lesotho | Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%, |
Luxembourg | Celtic base (with French and German blend), Portuguese, Italian, Slavs (from Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo) and European (guest and resident workers) |
Libya | Berber and Arab 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians |
Madagascar | Malayo-Indonesian (Merina and related Betsileo), Cotiers (mixed African, Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry - Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety, Antaisaka, Sakalava), French, Indian, Creole, Comoran |
Martinique | African and African-white-Indian mixture 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Chinese less than 5% |
Macau | Chinese 95.7%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry) 1%, other 3.3% (2001 census) |
Moldova | Moldovan/Romanian 64.5%, Ukrainian 13.8%, Russian 13%, Jewish 1.5%, Bulgarian 2%, Gagauz and other 5.2% (1989 est.) |
Mayotte | |
Mongolia | Mongol (mostly Khalkha) 94.9%, Turkic (mostly Kazakh) 5%, other (including Chinese and Russian) 0.1% (2000) |
Montserrat | black, white |
Malawi | Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuka, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asian, European |
Macedonia | Macedonian 64.2%, Albanian 25.2%, Turkish 3.9%, Roma 2.7%, Serb 1.8%, other 2.2% (2002 census) |
Mali | Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5% |
Monaco | French 47%, Monegasque 16%, Italian 16%, other 21% |
Morocco | Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2% |
Mauritius | Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2% |
Midway Islands | |
Mauritania | mixed Maur/black 40%, Moor 30%, black 30% |
Malta | Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians, with strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock) |
Oman | Arab, Baluchi, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi), African |
Maldives | South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs |
Mexico | mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1% |
Malaysia | Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, Indigenous 11%, Indian 7.1%, others 7.8% (2004 est.) |
Mozambique | indigenous tribal groups 99.66% (Makhuwa, Tsonga, Lomwe, Sena, and others), Europeans 0.06%, Euro-Africans 0.2%, Indians 0.08% |
New Caledonia | Melanesian 42.5%, European 37.1%, Wallisian 8.4%, Polynesian 3.8%, Indonesian 3.6%, Vietnamese 1.6%, other 3% |
Niue | Niuen 78.2%, Pacific islander 10.2%, European 4.5%, mixed 3.9%, Asian 0.2%, unspecified 3% (2001 census) |
Norfolk Island | descendants of the Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesians |
Niger | Hausa 56%, Djerma 22%, Fula 8.5%, Tuareg 8%, Beri Beri (Kanouri) 4.3%, Arab, Toubou, and Gourmantche 1.2%, about 1,200 French expatriates |
Vanuatu | Ni-Vanuatu 98.5%, other 1.5% (1999 Census) |
Nigeria | Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5% |
Netherlands | Dutch 83%, other 17% (of which 9% are non-Western origin mainly Turks, Moroccans, Antilleans, Surinamese, and Indonesians) (1999 est.) |
Norway | Norwegian, Sami 20,000 |
Nepal | Chhettri 15.5%, Brahman-Hill 12.5%, Magar 7%, Tharu 6.6%, Tamang 5.5%, Newar 5.4%, Muslim 4.2%, Kami 3.9%, Yadav 3.9%, other 32.7%, unspecified 2.8% (2001 census) |
Nauru | Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8% |
Suriname | Hindustani (also known locally as "East Indians"; their ancestors emigrated from northern India in the latter part of the 19th century) 37%, Creole (mixed white and black) 31%, Javanese 15%, "Maroons" (their African ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves and escaped to the interior) 10%, Amerindian 2%, Chinese 2%, white 1%, other 2% |
Netherlands Antilles | mixed black 85%, Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian |
Nicaragua | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5% |
New Zealand | European 69.8%, Maori 7.9%, Asian 5.7%, Pacific islander 4.4%, other 0.5%, mixed 7.8%, unspecified 3.8% (2001 census) |
Southern Ocean | |
Paraguay | mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95%, other 5% |
Pitcairn Islands | descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives |
Peru | Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3% |
Paracel Islands | |
Spratly Islands | |
Pakistan | Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch, Muhajir (immigrants from India at the time of partition and their descendants) |
Poland | Polish 96.7%, German 0.4%, Belarusian 0.1%, Ukrainian 0.1%, other and unspecified 2.7% (2002 census) |
Panama | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6% |
Portugal | homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000; since 1990 East Europeans have entered Portugal |
Papua New Guinea | Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian |
Palau | Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 69.9%, Carolinian 1.4%, other Micronesian 1.1%, Filipino 15.3%, Chinese 4.9%, other Asian 2.4%, white 1.9%, other or unspecified 3.2% (2000 census) |
Guinea-Bissau | African 99% (Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1% |
Qatar | Arab 40%, Pakistani 18%, Indian 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14% |
Reunion | French, African, Malagasy, Chinese, Pakistani, Indian |
Marshall Islands | Micronesian |
Romania | Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 2.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4% (2002 census) |
Philippines | Tagalog 28.1%, Cebuano 13.1%, Llocano 9%, Bisaya/Binisaya 7.6%, Hiligaynon Ilonggo 7.5%, Bikol 6%, Waray 3.4%, other 25.3% (2000 census) |
Puerto Rico | white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed and other 10.9% |
Russia | Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census) |
Rwanda | Hutu 84%, Tutsi 15%, Twa (Pygmoid) 1% |
Saudi Arabia | Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10% |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Basques and Bretons (French fishermen) |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | predominantly black; some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese |
Seychelles | mixed French, African, Indian, Chinese, and Arab |
South Africa | black African 79%, white 9.6%, colored 8.9%, Indian/Asian 2.5% (2001 census) |
Senegal | Wolof 43.3%, Pular 23.8%, Serer 14.7%, Jola 3.7%, Mandinka 3%, Soninke 1.1%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 9.4% |
Saint Helena | African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25% |
Slovenia | Slovene 83.1%, Serb 2%, Croat 1.8%, Bosniak 1.1%, other or unspecified 12% (2002 census) |
Sierra Leone | 20 native African tribes 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians |
San Marino | Sammarinese, Italian |
Singapore | Chinese 76.8%, Malay 13.9%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4% (2000 census) |
Somalia | Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including Arabs 30,000) |
Spain | composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types |
Saint Lucia | black 90%, mixed 6%, East Indian 3%, white 1% |
Sudan | black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1% |
Svalbard | Norwegian 55.4%, Russian and Ukrainian 44.3%, other 0.3% (1998) |
Sweden | indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | |
Syria | Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7% |
Switzerland | German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6% |
Trinidad and Tobago | Indian (South Asian) 40%, African 37.5%, mixed 20.5%, other 1.2%, unspecified 0.8% (2000 census) |
Tromelin Island | |
Thailand | Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11% |
Tajikistan | Tajik 79.9%, Uzbek 15.3%, Russian 1.1%, Kyrgyz 1.1%, other 2.6% (2000 census) |
Turks and Caicos Islands | black 90%, mixed, European, or North American 10% |
Tokelau | Polynesian |
Tonga | Polynesian, Europeans about 300 |
Togo | native African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1% |
Sao Tome and Principe | mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese) |
Tunisia | Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1% |
East Timor | Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority |
Turkey | Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20% (estimated) |
Tuvalu | Polynesian 96%, Micronesian 4% |
Taiwan | Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2% |
Turkmenistan | Turkmen 85%, Uzbek 5%, Russian 4%, other 6% (2003) |
Tanzania | mainland - native African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, native African, mixed Arab and native African |
Uganda | Baganda 17%, Ankole 8%, Basoga 8%, Iteso 8%, Bakiga 7%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Batoro 3%, Bunyoro 3%, Alur 2%, Bagwere 2%, Bakonjo 2%, Jopodhola 2%, Karamojong 2%, Rundi 2%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 8% |
United Kingdom | white (English 83.6%, Scottish 8.6%, Welsh 4.9%, Northern Irish 2.9%) 92.1%, black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%, other 1.6% (2001 census) |
Ukraine | Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 census) |
United States | white 81.7%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2% (2003 est.) |
Burkina Faso | Mossi over 40%, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani |
Uruguay | white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian (practically nonexistent) |
Uzbekistan | Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5% (1996 est.) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 7% |
Venezuela | Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people |
British Virgin Islands | black 83%, white, Indian, Asian and mixed |
Vietnam | Kinh (Viet) 86.2%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khome 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%, Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, others 4.1% (1999 census) |
Virgin Islands | black 76.2%, white 13.1%, Asian 1.1%, other 6.1%, mixed 3.5% (2000 census) |
Holy See (Vatican City) | Italians, Swiss, other |
Namibia | black 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5% |
West Bank | Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17% |
Wallis and Futuna | Polynesian |
Western Sahara | Arab, Berber |
Wake Island | |
Samoa | Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4% |
Swaziland | African 97%, European 3% |
Indian Ocean | |
Arctic Ocean | |
World | |
Serbia and Montenegro | Serb 62.6%, Albanian 16.5%, Montenegrin 5%, Hungarian 3.3%, other 12.6% (1991) |
Yemen | predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans |
Zambia | African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2% |
Atlantic Ocean | |
Zimbabwe | African 98% (Shona 82%, Ndebele 14%, other 2%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1% |
Pacific Ocean | |
Cote d'Ivoire | Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 14,000 French) (1998) |
Aruba | mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian 80% |
Antigua and Barbuda | black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian |
United Arab Emirates | Emirati 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8% (1982) |
Afghanistan | Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4% |
Algeria | Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% |
Azerbaijan | Azeri 90%, Dagestani 3.2%, Russian 2.5%, Armenian 2%, other 2.3% (1998 est.) |
Albania | Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Roma (Gypsy), Serb, and Macedonian or Bulgarian) (1989 est.) |
Armenia | Armenian 93%, Azeri 1%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 4% (2002) |
Andorra | Spanish 43%, Andorran 33%, Portuguese 11%, French 7%, other 6% (1998) |
Angola | Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22% |
American Samoa | Samoan (Polynesian) 89%, Caucasian 2%, Tongan 4%, other 5% |
Argentina | white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo, Amerindian, or other nonwhite groups 3% |
Australia | Caucasian 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1% |
Ashmore and Cartier Islands | |
Austria | German 88.5%, indigenous minorities 1.5% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Roma), recent immigrant groups 10% (includes Turks, Bosnians, Serbians, Croatians) (2001) |
Anguilla | black (predominant), mulatto, white |
Akrotiri | |
Antarctica | |
Bahrain | Bahraini 63%, Asian 19%, other Arab 10%, Iranian 8% |
Barbados | black 90%, white 4%, Asian and mixed 6% |
Botswana | Tswana (or Setswana) 79%, Kalanga 11%, Basarwa 3%, other, including Kgalagadi and white 7% |
Bermuda | black 58%, white 36%, other 6% |
Belgium | Fleming 58%, Walloon 31%, mixed or other 11% |
Bahamas, The | black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3% |
Bangladesh | Bengali 98%, tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims (1998) |
Belize | mestizo 48.7%, Creole 24.9%, Maya 10.6%, Garifuna 6.1%, other 9.7% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serb 37.1%, Bosniak 48%, Croat 14.3%, other 0.6% (2000) |
Bolivia | Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15% |
Burma | Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Indian 2%, Mon 2%, other 5% |
Benin | African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5,500 |
Belarus | Belarusian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish, Ukrainian, and other 7.4% |
Solomon Islands | Melanesian 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other 0.4% |
Navassa Island | |
Brazil | white (includes Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) 55%, mixed white and black 38%, black 6%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 1% |
Bassas da India | |
Bhutan | Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35% (includes Lhotsampas - one of several Nepalese ethnic groups), indigenous or migrant tribes 15% |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian 83.9%, Turk 9.4%, Roma 4.7%, other 2% (including Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Circassian) (2001) |
Bouvet Island | |
Brunei | Malay 67%, Chinese 15%, indigenous 6%, other 12% |
Burundi | Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000 |
Canada | British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26% |
Cambodia | Khmer 90%, Vietnamese 5%, Chinese 1%, other 4% |
Chad | 200 distinct groups; in the north and center: Arabs, Gorane (Toubou, Daza, Kreda), Zaghawa, Kanembou, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Hausa, Boulala, and Maba, most of whom are Muslim; in the south: Sara (Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye), Moundang, Moussei, Massa, most of whom are Christian or animist; about 1,000 French citizens live in Chad |
Sri Lanka | Sinhalese 74%, Tamil 18%, Moor 7%, Burgher, Malay, and Vedda 1% |
Congo, Republic of the | Kongo 48%, Sangha 20%, M'Bochi 12%, Teke 17%, Europeans and other 3% |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | over 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest tribes - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) make up about 45% of the population |
China | Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1% |
Chile | white and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2% |
Cayman Islands | mixed 40%, white 20%, black 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups 20% |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Europeans, Cocos Malays |
Cameroon | Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African less than 1% |
Comoros | Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava |
Colombia | mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1% |
Northern Mariana Islands | Chamorro, Carolinians and other Micronesians, Caucasian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean |
Coral Sea Islands | |
Costa Rica | white (including mestizo) 94%, black 3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1% |
Central African Republic | Baya 33%, Banda 27%, Mandjia 13%, Sara 10%, Mboum 7%, M'Baka 4%, Yakoma 4%, other 2% |
Cuba | mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1% |
Cape Verde | Creole (mulatto) 71%, African 28%, European 1% |
Cook Islands | Polynesian (full blood) 81.3%, Polynesian and European 7.7%, Polynesian and non-European 7.7%, European 2.4%, other 0.9% |
Cyprus | Greek 77%, Turkish 18%, other 5% (2001) |
Denmark | Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali |
Djibouti | Somali 60%, Afar 35%, French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian 5% |
Dominica | black, mixed black and European, European, Syrian, Carib Amerindian |
Jarvis Island | |
Dominican Republic | white 16%, black 11%, mixed 73% |
Dhekelia | |
Ecuador | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3% |
European Union | |
Egypt | Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek, Nubian, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1% |
Ireland | Celtic, English |
Equatorial Guinea | Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos), Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly Spanish |
Estonia | Estonian 65.3%, Russian 28.1%, Ukrainian 2.5%, Belarusian 1.5%, Finn 1%, other 1.6% (1998) |
Eritrea | ethnic Tigrinya 50%, Tigre and Kunama 40%, Afar 4%, Saho (Red Sea coast dwellers) 3%, other 3% |
El Salvador | mestizo 90%, Amerindian 1%, white 9% |
Ethiopia | Oromo 40%, Amhara and Tigre 32%, Sidamo 9%, Shankella 6%, Somali 6%, Afar 4%, Gurage 2%, other 1% |
Europa Island | |
Czech Republic | Czech 81.2%, Moravian 13.2%, Slovak 3.1%, Polish 0.6%, German 0.5%, Silesian 0.4%, Roma 0.3%, Hungarian 0.2%, other 0.5% (1991) |
French Guiana | black or mulatto 66%, white 12%, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian 12%, other 10% |
Finland | Finn 93.4%, Swede 5.7%, Russian 0.4%, Estonian 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Sami 0.1% |
Fiji | Fijian 51% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture), Indian 44%, European, other Pacific Islanders, overseas Chinese, and other 5% (1998 est.) |
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | British |
Micronesia, Federated States of | nine ethnic Micronesian and Polynesian groups |
Faroe Islands | Scandinavian |
French Polynesia | Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4% |
Baker Island | |
France | Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities |
French Southern and Antarctic Lands | |
Gambia, The | African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-African 1% |
Gabon | Bantu tribes including four major tribal groupings (Fang, Bapounou, Nzebi, Obamba), other Africans and Europeans 154,000, including 10,700 French and 11,000 persons of dual nationality |
Georgia | Georgian 70.1%, Armenian 8.1%, Russian 6.3%, Azeri 5.7%, Ossetian 3%, Abkhaz 1.8%, other 5% |
Ghana | black African 98.5% (major tribes - Akan 44%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga 8%, Gurma 3%, Yoruba 1%), European and other 1.5% (1998) |
Gibraltar | Spanish, Italian, English, Maltese, Portuguese, German, North Africans |
Grenada | black 82%, mixed black and European 13%, European and East Indian 5% , and trace of Arawak/Carib Amerindian |
Guernsey | UK and Norman-French descent with small percentages from other European countries |
Greenland | Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (January 2000) |
Germany | German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) |
Glorioso Islands | |
Guadeloupe | black or mulatto 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese less than 5% |
Guam | Chamorro 37%, Filipino 26%, white 10%, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other 27% |
Greece | Greek 98%, other 2% |
Guatemala | Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino), approximately 55%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 43%, whites and others 2% |
Guinea | Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10% |
Guyana | East Indian 50%, black 36%, Amerindian 7%, white, Chinese, and mixed 7% |
Gaza Strip | Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6% |
Haiti | black 95%, mulatto and white 5% |
Hong Kong | Chinese 95%, other 5% |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands | |
Honduras | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1% |
Howland Island | |
Croatia | Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, Bosniak 0.5%, Hungarian 0.4%, Slovene 0.3%, Czech 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Albanian 0.1%, Montenegrin 0.1%, others 4.1% (2001) |
Hungary | Hungarian 89.9%, Roma 4%, German 2.6%, Serb 2%, Slovak 0.8%, Romanian 0.7% |
Iceland | homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%, population of foreign origin 6% |
Indonesia | Javanese 45%, Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5%, coastal Malays 7.5%, other 26% |
Man, Isle of | Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Briton |
India | Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000) |
British Indian Ocean Territory | |
Clipperton Island | |
Iran | Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1% |
Israel | Jewish 80.1% (Europe/America-born 32.1%, Israel-born 20.8%, Africa-born 14.6%, Asia-born 12.6%), non-Jewish 19.9% (mostly Arab) (1996 est.) |
Italy | Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 14,000 French) (1998) |
Iraq | Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5% |
Japan | Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914) |
Jersey | UK and Norman-French descent |
Jamaica | black 90.9%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.1% |
Jan Mayen | |
Jordan | Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1% |
Johnston Atoll | |
Juan de Nova Island | |
Kenya | Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1% |
Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyz 64.9%, Uzbek 13.8%, Russian 12.5%, Dungan 1.1%, Ukrainian 1%, Uygur 1%, other 5.7% (1999 census) |
Korea, North | racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese |
Kingman Reef | |
Kiribati | predominantly Micronesian with some Polynesian |
Korea, South | homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) |
Christmas Island | Chinese 70%, European 20%, Malay 10% |
Kuwait | Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7% |
Kazakhstan | Kazakh (Qazaq) 53.4%, Russian 30%, Ukrainian 3.7%, Uzbek 2.5%, German 2.4%, Uygur 1.4%, other 6.6% (1999 census) |
Laos | Lao Loum (lowland) 68%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland) including the Hmong and the Yao 9%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1% |
Lebanon | Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% |
Latvia | Latvian 57.7%, Russian 29.6%, Belarusian 4.1%, Ukrainian 2.7%, Polish 2.5%, Lithuanian 1.4%, other 2% (2002) |
Lithuania | Lithuanian 80.6%, Russian 8.7%, Polish 7%, Belarusian 1.6%, other 2.1% |
Liberia | indigenous African tribes 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei, Bella, Mandingo, and Mende), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been slaves), Congo People 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean who had been slaves) |
Slovakia | Slovak 85.7%, Hungarian 10.6%, Roma 1.6% (the 1992 census figures underreport the Gypsy/Romany community, which is about 500,000), Czech, Moravian, Silesian 1.1%, Ruthenian and Ukrainian 0.6%, German 0.1%, Polish 0.1%, other 0.2% (1996) |
Palmyra Atoll | |
Liechtenstein | Alemannic 86%, Italian, Turkish, and other 14% |
Lesotho | Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%, |
Luxembourg | Celtic base (with French and German blend), Portuguese, Italian, Slavs (from Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo) and European (guest and resident workers) |
Libya | Berber and Arab 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians |
Madagascar | Malayo-Indonesian (Merina and related Betsileo), Cotiers (mixed African, Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry - Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety, Antaisaka, Sakalava), French, Indian, Creole, Comoran |
Martinique | African and African-white-Indian mixture 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Chinese less than 5% |
Macau | Chinese 95%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry), Portuguese, other |
Moldova | Moldovan/Romanian 64.5%, Ukrainian 13.8%, Russian 13%, Jewish 1.5%, Bulgarian 2%, Gagauz and other 5.2% (1989 est.) |
Mayotte | |
Mongolia | Mongol (mostly Khalkha) 94.9%, Turkic (mostly Kazakh) 5%, other (including Chinese and Russian) 0.1% (2000) |
Montserrat | black, white |
Malawi | Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuka, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asian, European |
Macedonia | Macedonian 64.2%, Albanian 25.2%, Turkish 3.8%, Roma 2.7%, Serb 1.8%, other 2.3% (2002) |
Mali | Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5% |
Monaco | French 47%, Monegasque 16%, Italian 16%, other 21% |
Morocco | Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2% |
Mauritius | Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2% |
Midway Islands | |
Mauritania | mixed Maur/black 40%, Moor 30%, black 30% |
Malta | Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians, with strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock) |
Oman | Arab, Baluchi, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi), African |
Maldives | South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs |
Mexico | mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1% |
Malaysia | Malay and other indigenous 58%, Chinese 24%, Indian 8%, others 10% (2000) |
Mozambique | indigenous tribal groups 99.66% (Makhuwa, Tsonga, Lomwe, Sena, and others), Europeans 0.06%, Euro-Africans 0.2%, Indians 0.08% |
New Caledonia | Melanesian 42.5%, European 37.1%, Wallisian 8.4%, Polynesian 3.8%, Indonesian 3.6%, Vietnamese 1.6%, other 3% |
Niue | Polynesian (with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and Tongans) |
Norfolk Island | descendants of the Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesians |
Niger | Hausa 56%, Djerma 22%, Fula 8.5%, Tuareg 8%, Beri Beri (Kanouri) 4.3%, Arab, Toubou, and Gourmantche 1.2%, about 1,200 French expatriates |
Vanuatu | indigenous Melanesian 98%, French, Vietnamese, Chinese, other Pacific Islanders |
Nigeria | Nigeria, which is Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5% |
Netherlands | Dutch 83%, other 17% (of which 9% are non-Western origin mainly Turks, Moroccans, Antilleans, Surinamese and Indonesians) (1999 est.) |
Norway | Norwegian, Sami 20,000 |
Nepal | Brahman, Chetri, Newar, Gurung, Magar, Tamang, Rai, Limbu, Sherpa, Tharu, and others (1995) |
Nauru | Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8% |
Suriname | Hindustani (also known locally as "East Indians"; their ancestors emigrated from northern India in the latter part of the 19th century) 37%, Creole (mixed white and black) 31%, Javanese 15%, "Maroons" (their African ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves and escaped to the interior) 10%, Amerindian 2%, Chinese 2%, white 1%, other 2% |
Netherlands Antilles | mixed black 85%, Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian |
Nicaragua | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5% |
New Zealand | New Zealand European 74.5%, Maori 9.7%, other European 4.6%, Pacific Islander 3.8%, Asian and others 7.4% |
Southern Ocean | |
Paraguay | mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95% |
Pitcairn Islands | descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives |
Peru | Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3% |
Paracel Islands | |
Spratly Islands | |
Pakistan | Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch, Muhajir (immigrants from India at the time of partition and their descendants) |
Poland | Polish 96.7%, German 0.4%, Belarusian 0.1%, Ukrainian 0.1%, other 2.7% (2002) |
Panama | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6% |
Portugal | homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000; since 1990 East Europeans have entered Portugal |
Papua New Guinea | Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian |
Palau | Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 70%, Asian (mainly Filipinos, followed by Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese) 28%, white 2% (2000 est.) |
Guinea-Bissau | African 99% (Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1% |
Qatar | Arab 40%, Pakistani 18%, Indian 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14% |
Reunion | French, African, Malagasy, Chinese, Pakistani, Indian |
Marshall Islands | Micronesian |
Romania | Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 2.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4% (2002) |
Philippines | Christian Malay 91.5%, Muslim Malay 4%, Chinese 1.5%, other 3% |
Puerto Rico | white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed and other 10.9% |
Russia | Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Belarusian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1% (1989) |
Rwanda | Hutu 84%, Tutsi 15%, Twa (Pygmoid) 1% |
Saudi Arabia | Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10% |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Basques and Bretons (French fishermen) |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | predominantly black; some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese |
Seychelles | mixed French, African, Indian, Chinese, and Arab |
South Africa | black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6% |
Senegal | Wolof 43.3%, Pular 23.8%, Serer 14.7%, Jola 3.7%, Mandinka 3%, Soninke 1.1%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 9.4% |
Saint Helena | African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25% |
Slovenia | Slovene 92%, Croat 1%, Serb 0.5%, Hungarian 0.4%, Bosniak 0.3%, other 5.8% (1991) |
Sierra Leone | 20 native African tribes 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians |
San Marino | Sammarinese, Italian |
Singapore | Chinese 76.7%, Malay 14%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4% |
Somalia | Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including Arabs 30,000) |
Spain | composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types |
Saint Lucia | black 90%, mixed 6%, East Indian 3%, white 1% |
Sudan | black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1% |
Svalbard | Norwegian 55.4%, Russian and Ukrainian 44.3%, other 0.3% (1998) |
Sweden | indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | |
Syria | Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7% |
Switzerland | German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6% |
Trinidad and Tobago | East Indian (a local term - primarily immigrants from northern India) 40.3%, black 39.5%, mixed 18.4%, white 0.6%, Chinese and other 1.2% |
Tromelin Island | |
Thailand | Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11% |
Tajikistan | Tajik 64.9%, Uzbek 25%, Russian 3.5% (declining because of emigration), other 6.6% |
Turks and Caicos Islands | black 90%, mixed, European, or North American 10% |
Tokelau | Polynesian |
Tonga | Polynesian, Europeans about 300 |
Togo | native African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1% |
Sao Tome and Principe | mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese) |
Tunisia | Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1% |
East Timor | Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority |
Turkey | Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20% (estimated) |
Tuvalu | Polynesian 96%, Micronesian 4% |
Taiwan | Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2% |
Turkmenistan | Turkmen 85%, Uzbek 5%, Russian 4%, other 6% (2003) |
Tanzania | mainland - native African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, native African, mixed Arab and native African |
Uganda | Baganda 17%, Ankole 8%, Basoga 8%, Iteso 8%, Bakiga 7%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Batoro 3%, Bunyoro 3%, Alur 2%, Bagwere 2%, Bakonjo 2%, Jopodhola 2%, Karamojong 2%, Rundi 2%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 8% |
United Kingdom | English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8% |
Ukraine | Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001) |
United States | white 77.1%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1.5%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.3%, other 4% (2000) |
Burkina Faso | Mossi over 40%, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani |
Uruguay | white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian, practically nonexistent |
Uzbekistan | Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5% (1996 est.) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 7% |
Venezuela | Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people |
British Virgin Islands | black 83%, white, Indian, Asian and mixed |
Vietnam | Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese, Hmong, Thai, Khmer, Cham, mountain groups |
Virgin Islands | black 78%, white 10%, other 12% |
Holy See (Vatican City) | Italians, Swiss, other |
Namibia | black 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5% |
West Bank | Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17% |
Wallis and Futuna | Polynesian |
Western Sahara | Arab, Berber |
Wake Island | |
Samoa | Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4% |
Swaziland | African 97%, European 3% |
Indian Ocean | |
Arctic Ocean | |
World | |
Serbia and Montenegro | Serb 62.6%, Albanian 16.5%, Montenegrin 5%, Hungarian 3.3%, other 12.6% (1991) |
Yemen | predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans |
Zambia | African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2% |
Atlantic Ocean | |
Zimbabwe | African 98% (Shona 82%, Ndebele 14%, other 2%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1% |
Pacific Ocean | |
Aruba | mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian 80% |
Antigua and Barbuda | black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian |
Afghanistan | Pashtun 44%, Tajik 25%, Hazara 10%, minor ethnic groups (Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch, and others) 13%, Uzbek 8% |
Algeria | Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% |
Azerbaijan | Azeri 90%, Dagestani 3.2%, Russian 2.5%, Armenian 2%, other 2.3% (1998 est.) |
Albania | Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Gypsy, Serb, and Bulgarian) (1989 est.) |
Armenia | Armenian 93%, Azeri 1%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 4% (2002) |
Andorra | Spanish 43%, Andorran 33%, Portuguese 11%, French 7%, other 6% (1998) |
Angola | Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22% |
American Samoa | Samoan (Polynesian) 89%, Caucasian 2%, Tongan 4%, other 5% |
Argentina | white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo, Amerindian, or other nonwhite groups 3% |
Australia | Caucasian 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1% |
Ashmore and Cartier Islands | |
Austria | German 88%, non-nationals 9.3% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Roma), naturalized 2% (includes those who have lived in Austria at least three generations) |
Anguilla | black (predominant), mulatto, white |
Antarctica | |
Bahrain | Bahraini 63%, Asian 19%, other Arab 10%, Iranian 8% |
Barbados | black 90%, white 4%, Asian and mixed 6% |
Botswana | Tswana (or Setswana) 79%, Kalanga 11%, Basarwa 3%, other, including Kgalagadi and white 7% |
Bermuda | black 58%, white 36%, other 6% |
Belgium | Fleming 58%, Walloon 31%, mixed or other 11% |
Bahamas, The | black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3% |
Bangladesh | Bengali 98%, tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims (1998) |
Belize | mestizo 48.7%, Creole 24.9%, Maya 10.6%, Garifuna 6.1%, other 9.7% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serb 37.1%, Bosniak 48%, Croat 14.3%, other 0.6% (2000) |
Bolivia | Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15% |
Burma | Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Indian 2%, Mon 2%, other 5% |
Benin | African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5,500 |
Belarus | Belarusian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish, Ukrainian, and other 7.4% |
Solomon Islands | Melanesian 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other 0.4% |
Navassa Island | |
Brazil | white (includes Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) 55%, mixed white and black 38%, black 6%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 1% |
Bassas da India | |
Bhutan | Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35% (includes Lhotsampas--one of several Nepalese ethnic groups), indigenous or migrant tribes 15% |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian 83.6%, Turk 9.5%, Roma 4.6%, other 2.3% (including Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Circassian) (1998) |
Bouvet Island | |
Brunei | Malay 67%, Chinese 15%, indigenous 6%, other 12% |
Burundi | Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000 |
Canada | British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26% |
Cambodia | Khmer 90%, Vietnamese 5%, Chinese 1%, other 4% |
Chad | 200 distinct groups; in the north and center: Arabs, Gorane (Toubou, Daza, Kreda), Zaghawa, Kanembou, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Hausa, Boulala, and Maba, most of whom are Muslim; in the south: Sara (Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye), Moundang, Moussei, Massa, most of whom are Christian or animist; about 1,000 French citizens live in Chad |
Sri Lanka | Sinhalese 74%, Tamil 18%, Moor 7%, Burgher, Malay, and Vedda 1% |
Congo, Republic of the | Kongo 48%, Sangha 20%, M'Bochi 12%, Teke 17%, Europeans and other 3% |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | over 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest tribes - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) make up about 45% of the population |
China | Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1% |
Chile | white and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2% |
Cayman Islands | mixed 40%, white 20%, black 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups 20% |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Europeans, Cocos Malays |
Cameroon | Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African less than 1% |
Comoros | Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava |
Colombia | mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1% |
Northern Mariana Islands | Chamorro, Carolinians and other Micronesians, Caucasian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean |
Coral Sea Islands | |
Costa Rica | white (including mestizo) 94%, black 3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1% |
Central African Republic | Baya 33%, Banda 27%, Mandjia 13%, Sara 10%, Mboum 7%, M'Baka 4%, Yakoma 4%, other 2% |
Cuba | mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1% |
Cape Verde | Creole (mulatto) 71%, African 28%, European 1% |
Cook Islands | Polynesian (full blood) 81.3%, Polynesian and European 7.7%, Polynesian and non-European 7.7%, European 2.4%, other 0.9% |
Cyprus | Greek 85.2%, Turkish 11.6%, other 3.2% (2000) |
Denmark | Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali |
Djibouti | Somali 60%, Afar 35%, French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian 5% |
Dominica | black, mixed black and European, European, Syrian, Carib Amerindian |
Jarvis Island | |
Dominican Republic | white 16%, black 11%, mixed 73% |
Ecuador | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3% |
Egypt | Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek, Nubian, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1% |
Ireland | Celtic, English |
Equatorial Guinea | Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos), Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly Spanish |
Estonia | Estonian 65.3%, Russian 28.1%, Ukrainian 2.5%, Belarusian 1.5%, Finn 1%, other 1.6% (1998) |
Eritrea | ethnic Tigrinya 50%, Tigre and Kunama 40%, Afar 4%, Saho (Red Sea coast dwellers) 3%, other 3% |
El Salvador | mestizo 90%, Amerindian 1%, white 9% |
Ethiopia | Oromo 40%, Amhara and Tigre 32%, Sidamo 9%, Shankella 6%, Somali 6%, Afar 4%, Gurage 2%, other 1% |
Europa Island | |
Czech Republic | Czech 81.2%, Moravian 13.2%, Slovak 3.1%, Polish 0.6%, German 0.5%, Silesian 0.4%, Roma 0.3%, Hungarian 0.2%, other 0.5% (1991) |
French Guiana | black or mulatto 66%, white 12%, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian 12%, other 10% |
Finland | Finn 93%, Swede 6%, Sami 0.11%, Roma 0.12%, Tatar 0.02% |
Fiji | Fijian 51% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture), Indian 44%, European, other Pacific Islanders, overseas Chinese, and other 5% (1998 est.) |
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | British |
Micronesia, Federated States of | nine ethnic Micronesian and Polynesian groups |
Faroe Islands | Scandinavian |
French Polynesia | Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4% |
Baker Island | |
France | Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities |
French Southern and Antarctic Lands | |
Gambia, The | African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-African 1% |
Gabon | Bantu tribes including four major tribal groupings (Fang, Bapounou, Nzebi, Obamba), other Africans and Europeans 154,000, including 10,700 French and 11,000 persons of dual nationality |
Georgia | Georgian 70.1%, Armenian 8.1%, Russian 6.3%, Azeri 5.7%, Ossetian 3%, Abkhaz 1.8%, other 5% |
Ghana | black African 98.5% (major tribes - Akan 44%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga 8%, Gurma 3%, Yoruba 1%), European and other 1.5% (1998) |
Gibraltar | Spanish, Italian, English, Maltese, Portuguese |
Grenada | black 82%, mixed black and European 13%, European and East Indian 5% , and trace of Arawak/Carib Amerindian |
Guernsey | UK and Norman-French descent |
Greenland | Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (January 2000) |
Germany | German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Russian, Greek, Polish, Spanish) |
Glorioso Islands | |
Guadeloupe | black or mulatto 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese less than 5% |
Guam | Chamorro 37%, Filipino 26%, white 10%, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other 27% |
Greece | Greek 98%, other 2% |
Guatemala | Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino), approximately 55%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 43%, whites and others 2% |
Guinea | Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10% |
Guyana | East Indian 50%, black 36%, Amerindian 7%, white, Chinese, and mixed 7% |
Gaza Strip | Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6% |
Haiti | black 95%, mulatto and white 5% |
Hong Kong | Chinese 95%, other 5% |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands | |
Honduras | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1% |
Howland Island | |
Croatia | Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, Bosniak 0.5%, Hungarian 0.4%, Slovene 0.3%, Czech 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Albanian 0.1%, Montenegrin 0.1%, others 4.1% (2001) |
Hungary | Hungarian 89.9%, Roma 4%, German 2.6%, Serb 2%, Slovak 0.8%, Romanian 0.7% |
Iceland | homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%, population of foreign origin 6% |
Indonesia | Javanese 45%, Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5%, coastal Malays 7.5%, other 26% |
Man, Isle of | Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Briton |
India | Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000) |
British Indian Ocean Territory | |
Clipperton Island | |
Iran | Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1% |
Israel | Jewish 80.1% (Europe/America-born 32.1%, Israel-born 20.8%, Africa-born 14.6%, Asia-born 12.6%), non-Jewish 19.9% (mostly Arab) (1996 est.) |
Italy | Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 20,000 French) (1998) |
Iraq | Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5% |
Japan | Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914) (2000) |
Jersey | UK and Norman-French descent |
Jamaica | black 90.9%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.1% |
Jan Mayen | |
Jordan | Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1% |
Johnston Atoll | |
Juan de Nova Island | |
Kenya | Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1% |
Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyz 52.4%, Russian 18%, Uzbek 12.9%, Ukrainian 2.5%, German 2.4%, other 11.8% |
Korea, North | racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese |
Kingman Reef | |
Kiribati | predominantly Micronesian with some Polynesian |
Korea, South | homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) |
Christmas Island | Chinese 70%, European 20%, Malay 10% |
Kuwait | Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7% |
Kazakhstan | Kazakh (Qazaq) 53.4%, Russian 30%, Ukrainian 3.7%, Uzbek 2.5%, German 2.4%, Uighur 1.4%, other 6.6% (1999 census) |
Laos | Lao Loum (lowland) 68%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland) including the Hmong ("Meo") and the Yao (Mien) 9%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1% |
Lebanon | Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% |
Latvia | Latvian 57.7%, Russian 29.6%, Belarusian 4.1%, Ukrainian 2.7%, Polish 2.5%, Lithuanian 1.4%, other 2% |
Lithuania | Lithuanian 80.6%, Russian 8.7%, Polish 7%, Belarusian 1.6%, other 2.1% |
Liberia | indigenous African tribes 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei, Bella, Mandingo, and Mende), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been slaves), Congo People 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean who had been slaves) |
Slovakia | Slovak 85.7%, Hungarian 10.6%, Roma 1.6% (the 1992 census figures underreport the Gypsy/Romany community, which is about 500,000), Czech, Moravian, Silesian 1.1%, Ruthenian and Ukrainian 0.6%, German 0.1%, Polish 0.1%, other 0.2% (1996) |
Palmyra Atoll | |
Liechtenstein | Alemannic 86%, Italian, Turkish, and other 14% |
Lesotho | Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%, |
Luxembourg | Celtic base (with French and German blend), Portuguese, Italian, Slavs (from Montenegro, Albania, and Kososvo) and European (guest and resident workers) |
Libya | Berber and Arab 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians |
Madagascar | Malayo-Indonesian (Merina and related Betsileo), Cotiers (mixed African, Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry - Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety, Antaisaka, Sakalava), French, Indian, Creole, Comoran |
Martinique | African and African-white-Indian mixture 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Chinese less than 5% |
Macau | Chinese 95%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry), Portuguese, other |
Moldova | Moldovan/Romanian 64.5%, Ukrainian 13.8%, Russian 13%, Jewish 1.5%, Bulgarian 2%, Gagauz and other 5.2% (1989 est.) |
Mayotte | |
Mongolia | Mongol (predominantly Khalkha) 85%, Turkic (of which Kazakh is the largest group) 7%, Tungusic 4.6%, other (including Chinese and Russian) 3.4% (1998) |
Montserrat | black, white |
Malawi | Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuka, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asian, European |
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of | Macedonian 64.2%, Albanian 25.2%, Turkish 3.8%, Roma 2.7%, Serb 1.8%, other 2.3% (1994) |
Mali | Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5% |
Monaco | French 47%, Monegasque 16%, Italian 16%, other 21% |
Morocco | Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2% |
Mauritius | Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2% |
Midway Islands | |
Mauritania | mixed Maur/black 40%, Maur 30%, black 30% |
Malta | Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians, with strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock) |
Oman | Arab, Baluchi, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi), African |
Maldives | South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs |
Mexico | mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1% |
Malaysia | Malay and other indigenous 58%, Chinese 24%, Indian 8%, others 10% (2000) |
Mozambique | indigenous tribal groups 99.66% (Shangaan, Chokwe, Manyika, Sena, Makua, and others), Europeans 0.06%, Euro-Africans 0.2%, Indians 0.08% |
New Caledonia | Melanesian 42.5%, European 37.1%, Wallisian 8.4%, Polynesian 3.8%, Indonesian 3.6%, Vietnamese 1.6%, other 3% |
Niue | Polynesian (with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and Tongans) |
Norfolk Island | descendants of the Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesians |
Niger | Hausa 56%, Djerma 22%, Fula 8.5%, Tuareg 8%, Beri Beri (Kanouri) 4.3%, Arab, Toubou, and Gourmantche 1.2%, about 1,200 French expatriates |
Vanuatu | indigenous Melanesian 98%, French, Vietnamese, Chinese, other Pacific Islanders |
Nigeria | Nigeria, which is Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5% |
Netherlands | Dutch 83%, other 17% (of which 9% are non-western origin mainly Turks, Moroccans, Antilleans, Surinamese and Indonesians) (1999 est.) |
Norway | Norwegian, Sami 20,000 |
Nepal | Brahman, Chetri, Newar, Gurung, Magar, Tamang, Rai, Limbu, Sherpa, Tharu, and others (1995) |
Nauru | Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8% |
Suriname | Hindustani (also known locally as "East Indians"; their ancestors emigrated from northern India in the latter part of the 19th century) 37%, Creole (mixed white and black) 31%, Javanese 15%, "Maroons" (their African ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves and escaped to the interior) 10%, Amerindian 2%, Chinese 2%, white 1%, other 2% |
Netherlands Antilles | mixed black 85%, Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian |
Nicaragua | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5% |
New Zealand | New Zealand European 74.5%, Maori 9.7%, other European 4.6%, Pacific Islander 3.8%, Asian and others 7.4% |
Southern Ocean | |
Paraguay | mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95% |
Pitcairn Islands | descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives |
Peru | Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3% |
Paracel Islands | |
Spratly Islands | |
Pakistan | Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch, Muhajir (immigrants from India at the time of partition and their descendants) |
Poland | Polish 97.6%, German 1.3%, Ukrainian 0.6%, Belarusian 0.5% (1990 est.) |
Panama | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6% |
Portugal | homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000; since 1990 East Europeans have entered Portugal |
Papua New Guinea | Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian |
Palau | Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 70%, Asian (mainly Filipinos, followed by Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese) 28%, white 2% (2000 est.) |
Guinea-Bissau | African 99% (Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1% |
Qatar | Arab 40%, Pakistani 18%, Indian 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14% |
Reunion | French, African, Malagasy, Chinese, Pakistani, Indian |
Marshall Islands | Micronesian |
Romania | Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 2.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4% (2002) |
Philippines | Christian Malay 91.5%, Muslim Malay 4%, Chinese 1.5%, other 3% |
Puerto Rico | white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed and other 10.9% |
Russia | Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Belarusian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1% (1989) |
Rwanda | Hutu 84%, Tutsi 15%, Twa (Pygmoid) 1% |
Saudi Arabia | Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10% |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Basques and Bretons (French fishermen) |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | predominantly black; some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese |
Seychelles | mixed French, African, Indian, Chinese, and Arab |
South Africa | black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6% |
Senegal | Wolof 43.3%, Pular 23.8%, Serer 14.7%, Jola 3.7%, Mandinka 3%, Soninke 1.1%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 9.4% |
Saint Helena | African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25% |
Slovenia | Slovene 88%, Croat 3%, Serb 2%, Bosniak 1%, Yugoslav 0.6%, Hungarian 0.4%, other 5% (1991) |
Sierra Leone | 20 native African tribes 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians |
San Marino | Sammarinese, Italian |
Singapore | Chinese 76.7%, Malay 14%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4% |
Somalia | Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including Arabs 30,000) |
Spain | composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types |
Saint Lucia | black 90%, mixed 6%, East Indian 3%, white 1% |
Sudan | black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1% |
Svalbard | Norwegian 55.4%, Russian and Ukrainian 44.3%, other 0.3% (1998) |
Sweden | indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | |
Syria | Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7% |
Switzerland | German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6% |
Trinidad and Tobago | black 39.5%, East Indian (a local term - primarily immigrants from northern India) 40.3%, mixed 18.4%, white 0.6%, Chinese and other 1.2% |
Tromelin Island | |
Thailand | Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11% |
Tajikistan | Tajik 64.9%, Uzbek 25%, Russian 3.5% (declining because of emigration), other 6.6% |
Turks and Caicos Islands | black 90%, mixed, European, or north American 10% |
Tokelau | Polynesian |
Tonga | Polynesian, Europeans about 300 |
Togo | native African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1% |
Sao Tome and Principe | mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese) |
Tunisia | Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1% |
East Timor | Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority |
Turkey | Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20% (estimated) |
Tuvalu | Polynesian 96%, Micronesian 4% |
Taiwan | Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2% |
Turkmenistan | Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1% (1995) |
Tanzania | mainland - native African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, native African, mixed Arab and native African |
Uganda | Baganda 17%, Ankole 8%, Basoga 8%, Iteso 8%, Bakiga 7%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Batoro 3%, Bunyoro 3%, Alur 2%, Bagwere 2%, Bakonjo 2%, Jopodhola 2%, Karamojong 2%, Rundi 2%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 8% |
United Kingdom | English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8% |
Ukraine | Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001) |
United States | white 77.1%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1.5%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.3%, other 4% (2000) |
Burkina Faso | Mossi over 40%, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani |
Uruguay | white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian, practically nonexistent |
Uzbekistan | Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5% (1996 est.) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 7% |
Venezuela | Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people |
British Virgin Islands | black 83%, white, Indian, Asian and mixed |
Vietnam | Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese, Hmong, Thai, Khmer, Cham, mountain groups |
Virgin Islands | black 78%, white 10%, other 12% |
Holy See (Vatican City) | Italians, Swiss, other |
Namibia | black 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5% |
West Bank | Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17% |
Wallis and Futuna | Polynesian |
Western Sahara | Arab, Berber |
Wake Island | |
Samoa | Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4% |
Swaziland | African 97%, European 3% |
Indian Ocean | |
Arctic Ocean | |
World | |
Serbia and Montenegro | Serb 62.6%, Albanian 16.5%, Montenegrin 5%, Hungarian 3.3%, other 12.6% (1991) |
Yemen | predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans |
Zambia | African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2% |
Atlantic Ocean | |
Zimbabwe | African 98% (Shona 82%, Ndebele 14%, other 2%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1% |
Pacific Ocean | |
Aruba | mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian 80% |
Antigua and Barbuda | black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian |
Afghanistan | Pashtun 44%, Tajik 25%, Hazara 10%, minor ethnic groups (Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch, and others) 13%, Uzbek 8% |
Algeria | Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% |
Azerbaijan | Azeri 90%, Dagestani 3.2%, Russian 2.5%, Armenian 2%, other 2.3% (1998 est.) |
Albania | Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Gypsy, Serb, and Bulgarian) (1989 est.) |
Armenia | Armenian 93%, Azeri 1%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 4% (2002) |
Andorra | Spanish 43%, Andorran 33%, Portuguese 11%, French 7%, other 6% (1998) |
Angola | Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22% |
American Samoa | Samoan (Polynesian) 89%, Caucasian 2%, Tongan 4%, other 5% |
Argentina | white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo, Amerindian, or other nonwhite groups 3% |
Australia | Caucasian 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1% |
Ashmore and Cartier Islands | |
Austria | German 88%, non-nationals 9.3% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Roma), naturalized 2% (includes those who have lived in Austria at least three generations) |
Anguilla | black (predominant), mulatto, white |
Antarctica | |
Bahrain | Bahraini 63%, Asian 19%, other Arab 10%, Iranian 8% |
Barbados | black 90%, white 4%, Asian and mixed 6% |
Botswana | Tswana (or Setswana) 79%, Kalanga 11%, Basarwa 3%, other, including Kgalagadi and white 7% |
Bermuda | black 58%, white 36%, other 6% |
Belgium | Fleming 58%, Walloon 31%, mixed or other 11% |
Bahamas, The | black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3% |
Bangladesh | Bengali 98%, tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims (1998) |
Belize | mestizo 48.7%, Creole 24.9%, Maya 10.6%, Garifuna 6.1%, other 9.7% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serb 37.1%, Bosniak 48%, Croat 14.3%, other 0.5% (2000) |
Bolivia | Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15% |
Burma | Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Indian 2%, Mon 2%, other 5% |
Benin | African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5,500 |
Belarus | Belarusian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish, Ukrainian, and other 7.4% |
Solomon Islands | Melanesian 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other 0.4% |
Navassa Island | |
Brazil | white (includes Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) 55%, mixed white and black 38%, black 6%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 1% |
Bassas da India | |
Bhutan | Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35% (includes Lhotsampas--one of several Nepalese ethnic groups), indigenous or migrant tribes 15% |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian 83.6%, Turk 9.5%, Roma 4.6%, other 2.3% (including Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Circassian) (1998) |
Bouvet Island | |
Brunei | Malay 67%, Chinese 15%, indigenous 6%, other 12% |
Burundi | Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000 |
Canada | British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26% |
Cambodia | Khmer 90%, Vietnamese 5%, Chinese 1%, other 4% |
Chad | 200 distinct groups; in the north and center: Arabs, Gorane (Toubou, Daza, Kreda), Zaghawa, Kanembou, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Hausa, Boulala, and Maba, most of whom are Muslim; in the south: Sara (Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye), Moundang, Moussei, Massa, most of whom are Christian or animist; about 1,000 French citizens live in Chad |
Sri Lanka | Sinhalese 74%, Tamil 18%, Moor 7%, Burgher, Malay, and Vedda 1% |
Congo, Republic of the | Kongo 48%, Sangha 20%, M'Bochi 12%, Teke 17%, Europeans and other 3% |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | over 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest tribes - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) make up about 45% of the population |
China | Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1% |
Chile | white and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2% |
Cayman Islands | mixed 40%, white 20%, black 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups 20% |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Europeans, Cocos Malays |
Cameroon | Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African less than 1% |
Comoros | Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava |
Colombia | mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1% |
Northern Mariana Islands | Chamorro, Carolinians and other Micronesians, Caucasian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean |
Coral Sea Islands | |
Costa Rica | white (including mestizo) 94%, black 3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1% |
Central African Republic | Baya 33%, Banda 27%, Mandjia 13%, Sara 10%, Mboum 7%, M'Baka 4%, Yakoma 4%, other 2% |
Cuba | mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1% |
Cape Verde | Creole (mulatto) 71%, African 28%, European 1% |
Cook Islands | Polynesian (full blood) 81.3%, Polynesian and European 7.7%, Polynesian and non-European 7.7%, European 2.4%, other 0.9% |
Cyprus | Greek 85.2%, Turkish 11.6%, other 3.2% (2000) |
Denmark | Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali |
Djibouti | Somali 60%, Afar 35%, French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian 5% |
Dominica | black, mixed black and European, European, Syrian, Carib Amerindian |
Jarvis Island | |
Dominican Republic | white 16%, black 11%, mixed 73% |
Ecuador | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3% |
Egypt | Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek, Nubian, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1% |
Ireland | Celtic, English |
Equatorial Guinea | Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos), Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly Spanish |
Estonia | Estonian 65.3%, Russian 28.1%, Ukrainian 2.5%, Belarusian 1.5%, Finn 1%, other 1.6% (1998) |
Eritrea | ethnic Tigrinya 50%, Tigre and Kunama 40%, Afar 4%, Saho (Red Sea coast dwellers) 3%, other 3% |
El Salvador | mestizo 90%, Amerindian 1%, white 9% |
Ethiopia | Oromo 40%, Amhara and Tigre 32%, Sidamo 9%, Shankella 6%, Somali 6%, Afar 4%, Gurage 2%, other 1% |
Europa Island | |
Czech Republic | Czech 81.2%, Moravian 13.2%, Slovak 3.1%, Polish 0.6%, German 0.5%, Silesian 0.4%, Roma 0.3%, Hungarian 0.2%, other 0.5% (1991) |
French Guiana | black or mulatto 66%, white 12%, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian 12%, other 10% |
Finland | Finn 93%, Swede 6%, Sami 0.11%, Roma 0.12%, Tatar 0.02% |
Fiji | Fijian 51% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture), Indian 44%, European, other Pacific Islanders, overseas Chinese, and other 5% (1998 est.) |
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | British |
Micronesia, Federated States of | nine ethnic Micronesian and Polynesian groups |
Faroe Islands | Scandinavian |
French Polynesia | Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4% |
Baker Island | |
France | Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities |
French Southern and Antarctic Lands | |
Gambia, The | African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-African 1% |
Gabon | Bantu tribes including four major tribal groupings (Fang, Bapounou, Nzebi, Obamba), other Africans and Europeans 154,000, including 10,700 French and 11,000 persons of dual nationality |
Georgia | Georgian 70.1%, Armenian 8.1%, Russian 6.3%, Azeri 5.7%, Ossetian 3%, Abkhaz 1.8%, other 5% |
Ghana | black African 98.5% (major tribes - Akan 44%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga 8%, Gurma 3%, Yoruba 1%), European and other 1.5% (1998) |
Gibraltar | Spanish, Italian, English, Maltese, Portuguese |
Grenada | black 82%, mixed black and European 13%, European and East Indian 5% , and trace of Arawak/Carib Amerindian |
Guernsey | UK and Norman-French descent |
Greenland | Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (January 2000) |
Germany | German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Russian, Greek, Polish, Spanish) |
Glorioso Islands | |
Guadeloupe | black or mulatto 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese less than 5% |
Guam | Chamorro 37%, Filipino 26%, white 10%, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other 27% |
Greece | Greek 98%, other 2% |
Guatemala | Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino), approximately 55%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 43%, whites and others 2% |
Guinea | Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10% |
Guyana | East Indian 50%, black 36%, Amerindian 7%, white, Chinese, and mixed 7% |
Gaza Strip | Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6% |
Haiti | black 95%, mulatto and white 5% |
Hong Kong | Chinese 95%, other 5% |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands | |
Honduras | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1% |
Howland Island | |
Croatia | Croat 78.1%, Serb 12.2%, Bosniak 0.9%, Hungarian 0.5%, Slovene 0.5%, Czech 0.4%, Albanian 0.3%, Montenegrin 0.3%, Roma 0.2%, others 6.6% (1991) |
Hungary | Hungarian 89.9%, Roma 4%, German 2.6%, Serb 2%, Slovak 0.8%, Romanian 0.7% |
Iceland | homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%, population of foreign origin 6% |
Indonesia | Javanese 45%, Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5%, coastal Malays 7.5%, other 26% |
Man, Isle of | Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Briton |
India | Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000) |
British Indian Ocean Territory | |
Clipperton Island | |
Iran | Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1% |
Israel | Jewish 80.1% (Europe/America-born 32.1%, Israel-born 20.8%, Africa-born 14.6%, Asia-born 12.6%), non-Jewish 19.9% (mostly Arab) (1996 est.) |
Italy | Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 20,000 French) (1998) |
Iraq | Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5% |
Japan | Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914) (2000) |
Jersey | UK and Norman-French descent |
Jamaica | black 90.9%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.1% |
Jan Mayen | |
Jordan | Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1% |
Johnston Atoll | |
Juan de Nova Island | |
Kenya | Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1% |
Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyz 52.4%, Russian 18%, Uzbek 12.9%, Ukrainian 2.5%, German 2.4%, other 11.8% |
Korea, North | racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese |
Kingman Reef | |
Kiribati | predominantly Micronesian with some Polynesian |
Korea, South | homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) |
Christmas Island | Chinese 70%, European 20%, Malay 10% |
Kuwait | Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7% |
Kazakhstan | Kazakh (Qazaq) 53.4%, Russian 30%, Ukrainian 3.7%, Uzbek 2.5%, German 2.4%, Uighur 1.4%, other 6.6% (1999 census) |
Laos | Lao Loum (lowland) 68%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland) including the Hmong ("Meo") and the Yao (Mien) 9%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1% |
Lebanon | Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% |
Latvia | Latvian 57.7%, Russian 29.6%, Belarusian 4.1%, Ukrainian 2.7%, Polish 2.5%, Lithuanian 1.4%, other 2% |
Lithuania | Lithuanian 80.6%, Russian 8.7%, Polish 7%, Belarusian 1.6%, other 2.1% |
Liberia | indigenous African tribes 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei, Bella, Mandingo, and Mende), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been slaves), Congo People 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean who had been slaves) |
Slovakia | Slovak 85.7%, Hungarian 10.6%, Roma 1.6% (the 1992 census figures underreport the Gypsy/Romany community, which is about 500,000), Czech, Moravian, Silesian 1.1%, Ruthenian and Ukrainian 0.6%, German 0.1%, Polish 0.1%, other 0.2% (1996) |
Palmyra Atoll | |
Liechtenstein | Alemannic 86%, Italian, Turkish, and other 14% |
Lesotho | Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%, |
Luxembourg | Celtic base (with French and German blend), Portuguese, Italian, Slavs (from Montenegro, Albania, and Kososvo) and European (guest and resident workers) |
Libya | Berber and Arab 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians |
Madagascar | Malayo-Indonesian (Merina and related Betsileo), Cotiers (mixed African, Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry - Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety, Antaisaka, Sakalava), French, Indian, Creole, Comoran |
Martinique | African and African-white-Indian mixture 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Chinese less than 5% |
Macau | Chinese 95%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry), Portuguese, other |
Moldova | Moldovan/Romanian 64.5%, Ukrainian 13.8%, Russian 13%, Jewish 1.5%, Bulgarian 2%, Gagauz and other 5.2% (1989 est.) |
Mayotte | |
Mongolia | Mongol (predominantly Khalkha) 85%, Turkic (of which Kazakh is the largest group) 7%, Tungusic 4.6%, other (including Chinese and Russian) 3.4% (1998) |
Montserrat | black, white |
Malawi | Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuka, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asian, European |
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of | Macedonian 66.6%, Albanian 22.7%, Turkish 4%, Roma 2.2%, Serb 2.1%, other 2.4% (1994) |
Mali | Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5% |
Monaco | French 47%, Monegasque 16%, Italian 16%, other 21% |
Morocco | Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2% |
Mauritius | Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2% |
Midway Islands | |
Mauritania | mixed Maur/black 40%, Maur 30%, black 30% |
Malta | Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians, with strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock) |
Oman | Arab, Baluchi, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi), African |
Maldives | South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs |
Mexico | mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1% |
Malaysia | Malay and other indigenous 58%, Chinese 24%, Indian 8%, others 10% (2000) |
Mozambique | indigenous tribal groups 99.66% (Shangaan, Chokwe, Manyika, Sena, Makua, and others), Europeans 0.06%, Euro-Africans 0.2%, Indians 0.08% |
New Caledonia | Melanesian 42.5%, European 37.1%, Wallisian 8.4%, Polynesian 3.8%, Indonesian 3.6%, Vietnamese 1.6%, other 3% |
Niue | Polynesian (with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and Tongans) |
Norfolk Island | descendants of the Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesians |
Niger | Hausa 56%, Djerma 22%, Fula 8.5%, Tuareg 8%, Beri Beri (Kanouri) 4.3%, Arab, Toubou, and Gourmantche 1.2%, about 1,200 French expatriates |
Vanuatu | indigenous Melanesian 98%, French, Vietnamese, Chinese, other Pacific Islanders |
Nigeria | Nigeria, which is Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5% |
Netherlands | Dutch 83%, other 17% (of which 9% are non-western origin mainly Turks, Moroccans, Antilleans, Surinamese and Indonesians) (1999 est.) |
Norway | Norwegian, Sami 20,000 |
Nepal | Brahman, Chetri, Newar, Gurung, Magar, Tamang, Rai, Limbu, Sherpa, Tharu, and others (1995) |
Nauru | Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8% |
Suriname | Hindustani (also known locally as "East Indians"; their ancestors emigrated from northern India in the latter part of the 19th century) 37%, Creole (mixed white and black) 31%, Javanese 15%, "Maroons" (their African ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves and escaped to the interior) 10%, Amerindian 2%, Chinese 2%, white 1%, other 2% |
Netherlands Antilles | mixed black 85%, Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian |
Nicaragua | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5% |
New Zealand | New Zealand European 74.5%, Maori 9.7%, other European 4.6%, Pacific Islander 3.8%, Asian and others 7.4% |
Southern Ocean | |
Paraguay | mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95% |
Pitcairn Islands | descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives |
Peru | Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3% |
Paracel Islands | |
Spratly Islands | |
Pakistan | Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch, Muhajir (immigrants from India at the time of partition and their descendants) |
Poland | Polish 97.6%, German 1.3%, Ukrainian 0.6%, Belarusian 0.5% (1990 est.) |
Panama | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6% |
Portugal | homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000; since 1990 East Europeans have entered Portugal |
Papua New Guinea | Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian |
Palau | Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 70%, Asian (mainly Filipinos, followed by Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese) 28%, white 2% (2000 est.) |
Guinea-Bissau | African 99% (Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1% |
Qatar | Arab 40%, Pakistani 18%, Indian 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14% |
Reunion | French, African, Malagasy, Chinese, Pakistani, Indian |
Marshall Islands | Micronesian |
Romania | Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 2.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4% (2002) |
Philippines | Christian Malay 91.5%, Muslim Malay 4%, Chinese 1.5%, other 3% |
Puerto Rico | white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed and other 10.9% |
Russia | Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Belarusian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1% |
Rwanda | Hutu 84%, Tutsi 15%, Twa (Pygmoid) 1% |
Saudi Arabia | Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10% |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Basques and Bretons (French fishermen) |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | predominantly black some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese |
Seychelles | mixed French, African, Indian, Chinese, and Arab |
South Africa | black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6% |
Senegal | Wolof 43.3%, Pular 23.8%, Serer 14.7%, Jola 3.7%, Mandinka 3%, Soninke 1.1%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 9.4% |
Saint Helena | African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25% |
Slovenia | Slovene 88%, Croat 3%, Serb 2%, Bosniak 1%, Yugoslav 0.6%, Hungarian 0.4%, other 5% (1991) |
Sierra Leone | 20 native African tribes 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians |
San Marino | Sammarinese, Italian |
Singapore | Chinese 76.7%, Malay 14%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4% |
Somalia | Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including Arabs 30,000) |
Spain | composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types |
Saint Lucia | black 90%, mixed 6%, East Indian 3%, white 1% |
Sudan | black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1% |
Svalbard | Norwegian 55.4%, Russian and Ukrainian 44.3%, other 0.3% (1998) |
Sweden | indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | |
Syria | Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7% |
Switzerland | German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6% |
Trinidad and Tobago | black 39.5%, East Indian (a local term - primarily immigrants from northern India) 40.3%, mixed 18.4%, white 0.6%, Chinese and other 1.2% |
Tromelin Island | |
Thailand | Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11% |
Tajikistan | Tajik 64.9%, Uzbek 25%, Russian 3.5% (declining because of emigration), other 6.6% |
Turks and Caicos Islands | black |
Tokelau | Polynesian |
Tonga | Polynesian, Europeans about 300 |
Togo | native African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1% |
Sao Tome and Principe | mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese) |
Tunisia | Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1% |
East Timor | Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority |
Turkey | Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20% |
Tuvalu | Polynesian 96%, Micronesian 4% |
Taiwan | Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2% |
Turkmenistan | Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1% (1995) |
Tanzania | mainland - native African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, native African, mixed Arab and native African |
Uganda | Baganda 17%, Ankole 8%, Basoga 8%, Iteso 8%, Bakiga 7%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Batoro 3%, Bunyoro 3%, Alur 2%, Bagwere 2%, Bakonjo 2%, Jopodhola 2%, Karamojong 2%, Rundi 2%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 8% |
United Kingdom | English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8% |
Ukraine | Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001) |
United States | white 77.1%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1.5%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.3%, other 4% (2000) |
Burkina Faso | Mossi over 40%, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani |
Uruguay | white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian, practically nonexistent |
Uzbekistan | Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5% (1996 est.) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 7% |
Venezuela | Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people |
British Virgin Islands | black 83%, white, Indian, Asian and mixed |
Vietnam | Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese, Hmong, Thai, Khmer, Cham, mountain groups |
Virgin Islands | black 80%, white 15%, other 5% |
Holy See (Vatican City) | Italians, Swiss, other |
Namibia | black 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5% |
West Bank | Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17% |
Wallis and Futuna | Polynesian |
Western Sahara | Arab, Berber |
Wake Island | |
Samoa | Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4% |
Swaziland | African 97%, European 3% |
Indian Ocean | |
Arctic Ocean | |
World | |
Serbia and Montenegro | Serb 62.6%, Albanian 16.5%, Montenegrin 5%, Hungarian 3.3%, other 12.6% (1991) |
Yemen | predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans |
Zambia | African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2% |
Atlantic Ocean | |
Zimbabwe | African 98% (Shona 82%, Ndebele 14%, other 2%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1% |
Pacific Ocean | |
Argentina | white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo, Amerindian, or other nonwhite groups 3% |
Australia | Caucasian 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1% |
Ashmore and Cartier Islands | |
Austria | German 98%, Croatian, Slovene, other (includes Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Roma) |
Anguilla | black |
Antarctica | |
Bahrain | Bahraini 63%, Asian 19%, other Arab 10%, Iranian 8% |
Barbados | black 80%, white 4%, other 16% |
Botswana | Tswana (or Setswana) 79%, Kalanga 11%, Basarwa 3%, other, including Kgalagadi and white 7% |
Bermuda | black 58%, white 36%, other 6% |
Belgium | Fleming 58%, Walloon 31%, mixed or other 11% |
Bahamas, The | black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3% |
Bangladesh | Bengali 98%, tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims (1998) |
Belize | mestizo 43.7%, Creole 29.8%, Maya 10%, Garifuna 6.2%, other 10.3% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serb 31%, Bosniak 44%, Croat 17%, Yugoslav 5.5%, other 2.5% (1991)
note:
Bosniak has replaced muslim as an ethnic term in part to avoid confusion with the religious term Muslim - an adherent of Islam |
Bolivia | Quechua 30%, Aymara 25%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, white 15% |
Burma | Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Mon 2%, Indian 2%, other 5% |
Benin | African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5,500 |
Belarus | Byelorussian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish, Ukrainian, and other 7.4% |
Solomon Islands | Melanesian 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other 0.4% |
Navassa Island | |
Brazil | white (includes Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) 55%, mixed white and black 38%, black 6%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 1% |
Bassas da India | |
Bhutan | Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35%, indigenous or migrant tribes 15% |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian 83%, Turk 8.5%, Roma 2.6%, Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Gagauz, Circassian, others (1998) |
Bouvet Island | |
Brunei | Malay 67%, Chinese 15%, indigenous 6%, other 12% |
Burundi | Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000 |
Canada | British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26% |
Cambodia | Khmer 90%, Vietnamese 5%, Chinese 1%, other 4% |
Chad | Muslims, commonly referred to as "northerners" or "gorane" (Arabs, Toubou, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Kanembou, Baguirmi, Boulala, Zaghawa, and Maba); non-Muslims, commonly referred to as "southerners" (Sara, Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye, Moundang, Moussei, Massa) including nonindigenous 150,000 (of whom 1,000 are French)
note:
ethnicity and regional background more commonly used to identify Chadians than religious affiliation |
Sri Lanka | Sinhalese 74%, Tamil 18%, Moor 7%, Burgher, Malay, and Vedda 1% |
Congo, Republic of the | Kongo 48%, Sangha 20%, M'Bochi 12%, Teke 17%, Europeans ; note - Europeans estimated at 8,500, mostly French, before the 1997 civil war; may be half that of 1998, following the widespread destruction of foreign businesses in 1997 |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | over 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest tribes - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) make up about 45% of the population |
China | Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1% |
Chile | white and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2% |
Cayman Islands | mixed 40%, white 20%, black 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups 20% |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Europeans, Cocos Malays |
Cameroon | Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African less than 1% |
Comoros | Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava |
Colombia | mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1% |
Northern Mariana Islands | Chamorro, Carolinians and other Micronesians, Caucasian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean |
Coral Sea Islands | |
Costa Rica | white (including mestizo) 94%, black 3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1% |
Central African Republic | Baya 34%, Banda 27%, Sara 10%, Mandjia 21%, Mboum 4%, M'Baka 4%, Europeans 6,500 (including 1,500 French) |
Cuba | mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1% |
Cape Verde | Creole (mulatto) 71%, African 28%, European 1% |
Cook Islands | Polynesian (full blood) 81.3%, Polynesian and European 7.7%, Polynesian and non-European 7.7%, European 2.4%, other 0.9% |
Cyprus | Greek 78% (99.5% of the Greeks live in the Greek Cypriot area; 0.5% of the Greeks live in the Turkish Cypriot area), Turkish 18% (1.3% of the Turks live in the Greek Cypriot area; 98.7% of the Turks live in the Turkish Cypriot area), other 4% (99.2% of the other ethnic groups live in the Greek Cypriot area; 0.8% of the other ethnic groups live in the Turkish Cypriot area) |
Denmark | Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali |
Djibouti | Somali 60%, Afar 35%, French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian 5% |
Dominica | black, Carib Amerindian |
Jarvis Island | |
Dominican Republic | white 16%, black 11%, mixed 73% |
Ecuador | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3% |
Egypt | Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek, Nubian, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1% |
Ireland | Celtic, English |
Equatorial Guinea | Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos), Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly Spanish |
Estonia | Estonian 65.1%, Russian 28.1%, Ukrainian 2.5%, Byelorussian 1.5%, Finn 1%, other 1.8% (1998) |
Eritrea | ethnic Tigrinya 50%, Tigre and Kunama 40%, Afar 4%, Saho (Red Sea coast dwellers) 3% |
El Salvador | mestizo 90%, Amerindian 1%, white 9% |
Ethiopia | Oromo 40%, Amhara and Tigre 32%, Sidamo 9%, Shankella 6%, Somali 6%, Afar 4%, Gurage 2%, other 1% |
Europa Island | |
Czech Republic | Czech 81.2%, Moravian 13.2%, Slovak 3.1%, Polish 0.6%, German 0.5%, Silesian 0.4%, Roma 0.3%, Hungarian 0.2%, other 0.5% (1991) |
French Guiana | black or mulatto 66%, white 12%, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian 12%, other 10% |
Finland | Finn 93%, Swede 6%, Sami 0.11%, Roma 0.12%, Tatar 0.02% |
Fiji | Fijian 51% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture), Indian 44%, European, other Pacific Islanders, overseas Chinese, and other 5% (1998 est.) |
Micronesia, Federated States of | nine ethnic Micronesian and Polynesian groups |
Faroe Islands | Scandinavian |
French Polynesia | Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4% |
Baker Island | |
France | Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities |
French Southern and Antarctic Lands | |
Gambia, The | African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-African 1% |
Gabon | Bantu tribes including four major tribal groupings (Fang, Eshira, Bapounou, Bateke), other Africans and Europeans 154,000, including 10,700 French and 11,000 persons of dual nationality |
Georgia | Georgian 70.1%, Armenian 8.1%, Russian 6.3%, Azeri 5.7%, Ossetian 3%, Abkhaz 1.8%, other 5% |
Ghana | black African 99.8% (major tribes - Akan 44%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga 8%), European and other 0.2% |
Gibraltar | Spanish, Italian, English, Maltese, Portuguese |
Grenada | black 82% some South Asians (East Indians) and Europeans, trace Arawak/Carib Amerindian |
Guernsey | UK and Norman-French descent |
Greenland | Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (January 2000) |
Germany | German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Russian, Greek, Polish, Spanish) |
Glorioso Islands | |
Guadeloupe | black or mulatto 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese less than 5% |
Guam | Chamorro 47%, Filipino 25%, white 10%, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other 18% |
Greece | Greek 98%, other 2%
note:
the Greek Government states there are no ethnic divisions in Greece |
Guatemala | Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino), approximately 55%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 43%, whites and others 2% |
Guinea | Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10% |
Guyana | East Indian 49%, black 32%, mixed 12%, Amerindian 6%, white and Chinese 1% |
Gaza Strip | Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6% |
Haiti | black 95%, mulatto and white 5% |
Hong Kong | Chinese 95%, other 5% |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands | |
Honduras | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1% |
Howland Island | |
Croatia | Croat 78.1%, Serb 12.2%, Bosniak 0.9%, Hungarian 0.5%, Slovenian 0.5%, Czech 0.4%, Albanian 0.3%, Montenegrin 0.3%, Roma 0.2%, others 6.6% (1991) |
Hungary | Hungarian 89.9%, Roma 4%, German 2.6%, Serb 2%, Slovak 0.8%, Romanian 0.7% |
Iceland | homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts |
Indonesia | Javanese 45%, Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5%, coastal Malays 7.5%, other 26% |
Man, Isle of | Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Briton |
India | Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000) |
British Indian Ocean Territory | |
Clipperton Island | |
Iran | Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1% |
Israel | Jewish 80.1% (Europe/America-born 32.1%, Israel-born 20.8%, Africa-born 14.6%, Asia-born 12.6%), non-Jewish 19.9% (mostly Arab) (1996 est.) |
Italy | Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (1998) |
Iraq | Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5% |
Japan | Japanese 99.4%, Korean 0.6% (1999) |
Jersey | UK and Norman-French descent |
Jamaica | black 90.9%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.1% |
Jan Mayen | |
Jordan | Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1% |
Johnston Atoll | |
Juan de Nova Island | |
Kenya | Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1% |
Kyrgyzstan | Kirghiz 52.4%, Russian 18%, Uzbek 12.9%, Ukrainian 2.5%, German 2.4%, other 11.8% |
Korea, North | racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese |
Kingman Reef | |
Kiribati | predominantly Micronesian with some Polynesian |
Korea, South | homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) |
Christmas Island | Chinese 61%, Malay 25%, European 11%, other 3%, no indigenous population |
Kuwait | Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7% |
Kazakhstan | Kazakh (Qazaq) 53.4%, Russian 30%, Ukrainian 3.7%, Uzbek 2.5%, German 2.4%, Uighur 1.4%, other 6.6% (1999 census) |
Laos | Lao Loum (lowland) 68%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland) including the Hmong ("Meo") and the Yao (Mien) 9%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1% |
Lebanon | Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% |
Latvia | Latvian 56.5%, Russian 30.4%, Byelorussian 4.3%, Ukrainian 2.8%, Polish 2.6%, other 3.4% |
Lithuania | Lithuanian 80.6%, Russian 8.7%, Polish 7%, Byelorussian 1.6%, other 2.1% |
Liberia | indigenous African tribes 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, and Bella), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been slaves), Congo People 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean who had been slaves) |
Slovakia | Slovak 85.7%, Hungarian 10.6%, Roma 1.6% (the 1992 census figures underreport the Gypsy/Romany community, which is about 500,000), Czech, Moravian, Silesian 1.1%, Ruthenian and Ukrainian 0.6%, German 0.1%, Polish 0.1%, other 0.2% (1996) |
Palmyra Atoll | |
Liechtenstein | Alemannic 87.5%, Italian, Turkish, and other 12.5% |
Lesotho | Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%, |
Luxembourg | Celtic base (with French and German blend), Portuguese, Italian, Slavs (from Montenegro, Albania, and Kososvo) and European (guest and resident workers) |
Libya | Berber and Arab 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians |
Madagascar | Malayo-Indonesian (Merina and related Betsileo), Cotiers (mixed African, Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry - Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety, Antaisaka, Sakalava), French, Indian, Creole, Comoran |
Martinique | African and African-white-Indian mixture 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Chinese less than 5% |
Macau | Chinese 95%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry), Portuguese, other |
Moldova | Moldovan/Romanian 64.5%, Ukrainian 13.8%, Russian 13%, Gagauz 3.5%, Jewish 1.5%, Bulgarian 2%, other 1.7% (1989 est.)
note:
internal disputes with ethnic Slavs in the Transnistrian region |
Mayotte | |
Mongolia | Mongol (predominantly Khalkha) 85%, Turkic (of which Kazakh is the largest group) 7%, Tungusic 4.6%, other (including Chinese and Russian) 3.4% (1998) |
Montserrat | black, white |
Malawi | Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuko, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asian, European |
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of | Macedonian 66.6%, Albanian 22.7%, Turkish 4%, Roma 2.2%, Serb 2.1%, other 2.4% (1994) |
Mali | Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5% |
Monaco | French 47%, Monegasque 16%, Italian 16%, other 21% |
Morocco | Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2% |
Mauritius | Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2% |
Midway Islands | |
Mauritania | mixed Maur/black 40%, Maur 30%, black 30% |
Malta | Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians, with strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock) |
Oman | Arab, Baluchi, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi), African |
Maldives | South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs |
Mexico | mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1% |
Malaysia | Malay and other indigenous 58%, Chinese 27%, Indian 8%, others 7% (2000) |
Mozambique | indigenous tribal groups 99.66% (Shangaan, Chokwe, Manyika, Sena, Makua, and others), Europeans 0.06%, Euro-Africans 0.2%, Indians 0.08% |
New Caledonia | Melanesian 42.5%, European 37.1%, Wallisian 8.4%, Polynesian 3.8%, Indonesian 3.6%, Vietnamese 1.6%, other 3% |
Niue | Polynesian (with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and Tongans) |
Norfolk Island | descendants of the Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesians |
Niger | Hausa 56%, Djerma 22%, Fula 8.5%, Tuareg 8%, Beri Beri (Kanouri) 4.3%, Arab, Toubou, and Gourmantche 1.2%, about 1,200 French expatriates |
Vanuatu | indigenous Melanesian 94%, French 4%, Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders |
Nigeria | Nigeria, which is Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5% |
Netherlands | Dutch 91%, Moroccans, Turks, and other 9% (1999 est.) |
Norway | Norwegian (Nordic, Alpine, Baltic), Sami 20,000 |
Nepal | Brahman, Chetri, Newar, Gurung, Magar, Tamang, Rai, Limbu, Sherpa, Tharu, and others (1995) |
Nauru | Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8% |
Suriname | Hindustani (also known locally as "East Indians"; their ancestors emigrated from northern India in the latter part of the 19th century) 37%, Creole (mixed white and black) 31%, Javanese 15%, "Maroons" (their African ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves and escaped to the interior) 10%, Amerindian 2%, Chinese 2%, white 1%, other 2% |
Netherlands Antilles | mixed black 85%, Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian |
Nicaragua | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5% |
New Zealand | New Zealand European 74.5%, Maori 9.7%, other European 4.6%, Pacific Islander 3.8%, Asian and others 7.4% |
Southern Ocean | |
Paraguay | mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95% |
Pitcairn Islands | descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives |
Peru | Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3% |
Paracel Islands | |
Spratly Islands | |
Pakistan | Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch, Muhajir (immigrants from India at the time of partition and their descendants) |
Poland | Polish 97.6%, German 1.3%, Ukrainian 0.6%, Byelorussian 0.5% (1990 est.) |
Panama | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6% |
Portugal | homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000 |
Papua New Guinea | Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian |
Palau | Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 70%, Asian (mainly Filipinos, followed by Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese) 28%, white 2% (2000 est.) |
Guinea-Bissau | African 99% (Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1% |
Qatar | Arab 40%, Pakistani 18%, Indian 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14% |
Reunion | French, African, Malagasy, Chinese, Pakistani, Indian |
Marshall Islands | Micronesian |
Romania | Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 7.1%, Roma 1.8%, German 0.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, other 0.8% (1992) |
Philippines | Christian Malay 91.5%, Muslim Malay 4%, Chinese 1.5%, other 3% |
Puerto Rico | white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed and other 10.9% |
Russia | Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Byelorussian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1% |
Rwanda | Hutu 84%, Tutsi 15%, Twa (Pygmoid) 1% |
Saudi Arabia | Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10% |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Basques and Bretons (French fishermen) |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | predominantly black some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese |
Seychelles | Seychellois (mixture of Asians, Africans, Europeans) |
South Africa | black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6% |
Senegal | Wolof 43.3%, Pular 23.8%, Serer 14.7%, Jola 3.7%, Mandinka 3%, Soninke 1.1%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 9.4% |
Saint Helena | African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25% |
Slovenia | Slovene 88%, Croat 3%, Serb 2%, Bosniak 1%, Yugoslav 0.6%, Hungarian 0.4%, other 5% (1991) |
Sierra Leone | 20 native African tribes 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians |
San Marino | Sammarinese, Italian |
Singapore | Chinese 76.7%, Malay 14%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4% |
Somalia | Somali 85%, Bantu, Arabs 30,000 |
Spain | composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types |
Saint Lucia | black 90%, mixed 6%, East Indian 3%, white 1% |
Sudan | black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1% |
Svalbard | Norwegian 55.4%, Russian and Ukrainian 44.3%, other 0.3% (1998) |
Sweden | indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | |
Syria | Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7% |
Switzerland | German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6% |
Trinidad and Tobago | black 39.5%, East Indian (a local term - primarily immigrants from northern India) 40.3%, mixed 18.4%, white 0.6%, Chinese and other 1.2% |
Tromelin Island | |
Thailand | Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11% |
Tajikistan | Tajik 64.9%, Uzbek 25%, Russian 3.5% (declining because of emigration), other 6.6% |
Turks and Caicos Islands | black |
Tokelau | Polynesian |
Tonga | Polynesian, Europeans about 300 |
Togo | native African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1% |
Sao Tome and Principe | mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese) |
Tunisia | Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1% |
Turkey | Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20% |
Tuvalu | Polynesian 96% |
Taiwan | Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2% |
Turkmenistan | Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1% (1995) |
Tanzania | mainland - native African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, native African, mixed Arab and native African |
Uganda | Baganda 17%, Karamojong 12%, Basogo 8%, Iteso 8%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Bunyoro 3%, Batoro 3%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 23% |
United Kingdom | English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8% |
Ukraine | Ukrainian 73%, Russian 22%, Jewish 1%, other 4% |
United States | white 83.5%, black 12.4%, Asian 3.3%, Amerindian 0.8% (1992)
note:
a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (especially of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.) |
Burkina Faso | Mossi over 40%, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani |
Uruguay | white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian, practically nonexistent |
Uzbekistan | Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5% (1996 est.) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2% |
Venezuela | Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people |
British Virgin Islands | black 90%, white, Asian |
Vietnam | Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese, Hmong, Thai, Khmer, Cham, mountain groups |
Virgin Islands | black 80%, white 15%, other 5%
note:
West Indian (45% born in the Virgin Islands and 29% born elsewhere in the West Indies) 74%, US mainland 13%, Puerto Rican 5%, other 8% |
Holy See (Vatican City) | Italians, Swiss, other |
Namibia | black 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5%
note:
about 50% of the population belong to the Ovambo tribe and 9% to the Kavangos tribe; other ethnic groups are: Herero 7%, Damara 7%, Nama 5%, Caprivian 4%, Bushmen 3%, Baster 2%, Tswana 0.5% |
West Bank | Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17% |
Wallis and Futuna | Polynesian |
Western Sahara | Arab, Berber |
Wake Island | |
Samoa | Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4% |
Swaziland | African 97%, European 3% |
Indian Ocean | |
Arctic Ocean | |
World | |
Yemen | predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans |
Zambia | African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2% |
Atlantic Ocean | |
Zimbabwe | African 98% (Shona 71%, Ndebele 16%, other 11%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1% |
Pacific Ocean | |
World | |
Afghanistan | Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4% |
Akrotiri | |
Albania | Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Roma (Gypsy), Serb, Macedonian, Bulgarian) (1989 est.) |
Algeria | Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% |
American Samoa | native Pacific islander 92.9%, Asian 2.9%, white 1.2%, mixed 2.8%, other 0.2% (2000 census) |
Andorra | Spanish 43%, Andorran 33%, Portuguese 11%, French 7%, other 6% (1998) |
Angola | Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22% |
Anguilla | black (predominant) 90.1%, mixed, mulatto 4.6%, white 3.7%, other 1.5% (2001 Census) |
Antarctica | |
Antigua and Barbuda | black 91%, mixed 4.4%, white 1.7%, other 2.9% (2001 census) |
Arctic Ocean | |
Argentina | white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry), Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3% |
Armenia | Armenian 97.9%, Yezidi (Kurd) 1.3%, Russian 0.5%, other 0.3% (2001 census) |
Aruba | mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian 80%, other 20% |
Ashmore and Cartier Islands | |
Atlantic Ocean | |
Australia | white 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1% |
Austria | Austrians 91.1%, former Yugoslavs 4% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Serbs, and Bosniaks), Turks 1.6%, German 0.9%, other or unspecified 2.4% (2001 census) |
Azerbaijan | Azeri 90.6%, Dagestani 2.2%, Russian 1.8%, Armenian 1.5%, other 3.9% (1999 census) |
Bahamas, The | black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3% |
Bahrain | Bahraini 62.4%, non-Bahraini 37.6% (2001 census) |
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | |
Bangladesh | Bengali 98%, other 2% (includes tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims) (1998) |
Barbados | black 90%, white 4%, Asian and mixed 6% |
Iles Eparses | |
Belarus | Belarusian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish 3.9%, Ukrainian 2.4%, other 1.1% (1999 census) |
Belgium | Fleming 58%, Walloon 31%, mixed or other 11% |
Belize | mestizo 48.7%, Creole 24.9%, Maya 10.6%, Garifuna 6.1%, other 9.7% |
Benin | Fon and related 39.2%, Adja and related 15.2%, Yoruba and related 12.3%, Bariba and related 9.2%, Peulh and related 7%, Ottamari and related 6.1%, Yoa-Lokpa and related 4%, Dendi and related 2.5%, other 1.6% (includes Europeans), unspecified 2.9% (2002 census) |
Bermuda | black 54.8%, white 34.1%, mixed 6.4%, other races 4.3%, unspecified 0.4% (2000 census) |
Bhutan | Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35% (includes Lhotsampas - one of several Nepalese ethnic groups), indigenous or migrant tribes 15% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosniak 48%, Serb 37.1%, Croat 14.3%, other 0.6% (2000) |
Bolivia | Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15% |
Botswana | Tswana (or Setswana) 79%, Kalanga 11%, Basarwa 3%, other, including Kgalagadi and white 7% |
Bouvet Island | |
Brazil | white 53.7%, mulatto (mixed white and black) 38.5%, black 6.2%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 0.9%, unspecified 0.7% (2000 census) |
British Indian Ocean Territory | |
British Virgin Islands | black 83%, other 17% (includes white, Indian, Asian and mixed) |
Brunei | Malay 67%, Chinese 15%, indigenous 6%, other 12% |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian 83.9%, Turk 9.4%, Roma 4.7%, other 2% (including Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Circassian) (2001 census) |
Burkina Faso | Mossi over 40%, other approximately 60% (includes Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, and Fulani) |
Burma | Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Indian 2%, Mon 2%, other 5% |
Burundi | Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000 |
Cambodia | Khmer 90%, Vietnamese 5%, Chinese 1%, other 4% |
Cameroon | Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African less than 1% |
Canada | British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26% |
Cape Verde | Creole (mulatto) 71%, African 28%, European 1% |
Cayman Islands | mixed 40%, white 20%, black 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups 20% |
Central African Republic | Baya 33%, Banda 27%, Mandjia 13%, Sara 10%, Mboum 7%, M'Baka 4%, Yakoma 4%, other 2% |
Chad | Sara 27.7%, Arab 12.3%, Mayo-Kebbi 11.5%, Kanem-Bornou 9%, Ouaddai 8.7%, Hadjarai 6.7%, Tandjile 6.5%, Gorane 6.3%, Fitri-Batha 4.7%, other 6.4%, unknown 0.3% (1993 census) |
Chile | white and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2% |
China | Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1% |
Christmas Island | Chinese 70%, European 20%, Malay 10% |
Clipperton Island | |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Europeans, Cocos Malays |
Colombia | mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1% |
Comoros | Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava |
Cyprus | Greek 77%, Turkish 18%, other 5% (2001) |
Congo, Republic of the | Kongo 48%, Sangha 20%, M'Bochi 12%, Teke 17%, Europeans and other 3% |
Cook Islands | Cook Island Maori (Polynesian) 87.7%, part Cook Island Maori 5.8%, other 6.5% (2001 census) |
Coral Sea Islands | |
Costa Rica | white (including mestizo) 94%, black 3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1% |
Cote d'Ivoire | Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 14,000 French) (1998) |
Croatia | Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma) (2001 census) |
El Salvador | mestizo 90%, white 9%, Amerindian 1% |
Egypt | Egyptian 98%, Berber, Nubian, Bedouin, and Beja 1%, Greek, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1% |
East Timor | Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority |
Ecuador | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3% |
Dominican Republic | mixed 73%, white 16%, black 11% |
Dominica | black 86.8%, mixed 8.9%, Carib Amerindian 2.9%, white 0.8%, other 0.7% (2001 census) |
Dhekelia | |
Djibouti | Somali 60%, Afar 35%, other 5% (includes French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian) |
Denmark | Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali |
Czech Republic | Czech 90.4%, Moravian 3.7%, Slovak 1.9%, other 4% (2001 census) |
Cuba | mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1% |
Equatorial Guinea | Fang 85.7%, Bubi 6.5%, Mdowe 3.6%, Annobon 1.6%, Bujeba 1.1%, other 1.4% (1994 census) |
Eritrea | Tigrinya 50%, Tigre and Kunama 40%, Afar 4%, Saho (Red Sea coast dwellers) 3%, other 3% |
Estonia | Estonian 67.9%, Russian 25.6%, Ukrainian 2.1%, Belarusian 1.3%, Finn 0.9%, other 2.2% (2000 census) |
Ethiopia | Oromo 32.1%, Amara 30.1%, Tigraway 6.2%, Somalie 5.9%, Guragie 4.3%, Sidama 3.5%, Welaita 2.4%, other 15.4% (1994 census) |
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | British |
Faroe Islands | Scandinavian |
Fiji | Fijian 54.8% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture), Indian 37.4%, other 7.9% (European, other Pacific Islanders, Chinese) (2005 estimate) |
Finland | Finn 93.4%, Swede 5.7%, Russian 0.4%, Estonian 0.2%, Roma (Gypsy) 0.2%, Sami 0.1% |
France | Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities |
French Polynesia | Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4% |
French Southern and Antarctic Lands | |
Gabon | Bantu tribes, including four major tribal groupings (Fang, Bapounou, Nzebi, Obamba); other Africans and Europeans, 154,000, including 10,700 French and 11,000 persons of dual nationality |
Gambia, The | African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-African 1% |
Gaza Strip | Palestinian Arab and other 99.4%, Jewish 0.6% |
Georgia | Georgian 83.8%, Azeri 6.5%, Armenian 5.7%, Russian 1.5%, other 2.5% (2002 census) |
Germany | German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) |
Ghana | Akan 45.3%, Mole-Dagbon 15.2%, Ewe 11.7%, Ga-Dangme 7.3%, Guan 4%, Gurma 3.6%, Grusi 2.6%, Mande-Busanga 1%, other tribes 1.4%, other 7.8% (2000 census) |
Gibraltar | Spanish, Italian, English, Maltese, Portuguese, German, North Africans |
Iles Eparses | |
Greece | population: Greek 93%, other (foreign citizens) 7% (2001 census) |
Greenland | Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (2000) |
Grenada | black 82%, mixed black and European 13%, European and East Indian 5%, and trace of Arawak/Carib Amerindian |
Guam | Chamorro 37.1%, Filipino 26.3%, other Pacific islander 11.3%, white
6.9%, other Asian 6.3%, other ethnic origin or race 2.3%, mixed 9.8%
(2000 census) |
Guatemala | Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish - in local Spanish called Ladino) and
European 59.4%, K'iche 9.1%, Kaqchikel 8.4%, Mam 7.9%, Q'eqchi 6.3%,
other Mayan 8.6%, indigenous non-Mayan 0.2%, other 0.1% (2001 census) |
Guernsey | UK and Norman-French descent with small percentages from other European countries |
Guinea | Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10% |
Guinea-Bissau | African 99% (includes Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1% |
Guyana | East Indian 50%, black 36%, Amerindian 7%, white, Chinese, and mixed 7% |
Haiti | black 95%, mulatto and white 5% |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands | |
Holy See (Vatican City) | Italians, Swiss, other |
Honduras | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1% |
Iceland | homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%, population of foreign origin 6% |
Hungary | Hungarian 92.3%, Roma 1.9%, other or unknown 5.8% (2001 census) |
Hong Kong | Chinese 94.9%, Filipino 2.1%, other 3% (2001 census) |
Iles Eparses | |
India | Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000) |
Indian Ocean | |
Indonesia | Javanese 40.6%, Sundanese 15%, Madurese 3.3%, Minangkabau 2.7%, Betawi
2.4%, Bugis 2.4%, Banten 2%, Banjar 1.7%, other or unspecified 29.9%
(2000 census) |
Iran | Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1% |
Iraq | Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5% |
Ireland | Celtic, English |
Isle of Man | Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Britons |
Israel | Jewish 76.4% (of which Israel-born 67.1%, Europe/America-born 22.6%,
Africa-born 5.9%, Asia-born 4.2%), non-Jewish 23.6% (mostly Arab)
(2004) |
Italy | Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and
Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians
in the south) |
Jamaica | black 91.2%, mixed 6.2%, other or unknown 2.6% (2001 census) |
Jan Mayen | |
Japan | Japanese 98.5%, Koreans 0.5%, Chinese 0.4%, other 0.7% |
Jersey | Jersey 51.1%, Britons 34.8%, Irish, French, and other white 6.6%, Portuguese/Madeiran 6.4%, other 1.1% (2001 census) |
Jordan | Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1% |
Kazakhstan | Kazakh (Qazaq) 53.4%, Russian 30%, Ukrainian 3.7%, Uzbek 2.5%, German
2.4%, Tatar 1.7%, Uygur 1.4%, other 4.9% (1999 census) |
Kenya | Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru
6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1% |
Kiribati | Micronesian 98.8%, other 1.2% (2000 census) |
Korea, North | racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese |
Korea, South | homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) |
Kuwait | Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7% |
Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyz 64.9%, Uzbek 13.8%, Russian 12.5%, Dungan 1.1%, Ukrainian 1%, Uygur 1%, other 5.7% (1999 census) |
Laos | Lao Loum (lowland) 68%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland)
including the Hmong and the Yao 9%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1% |
Latvia | Latvian 57.7%, Russian 29.6%, Belarusian 4.1%, Ukrainian 2.7%, Polish 2.5%, Lithuanian 1.4%, other 2% (2002) |
Lebanon | Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% |
Lesotho | Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%, |
Liberia | indigenous African 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano,
Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei, Bella, Mandingo, and
Mende), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US
who had been slaves), Congo People 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from
the Caribbean who had been slaves) |
Libya | Berber and Arab 97%, other 3% (includes Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, and Tunisians) |
Liechtenstein | Alemannic 86%, Italian, Turkish, and other 14% |
Lithuania | Lithuanian 83.4%, Polish 6.7%, Russian 6.3%, other or unspecified 3.6% (2001 census) |
Luxembourg | Celtic base (with French and German blend), Portuguese, Italian, Slavs
(from Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo) and European (guest and resident
workers) |
Macau | Chinese 95.7%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry) 1%, other 3.3% (2001 census) |
Macedonia | Macedonian 64.2%, Albanian 25.2%, Turkish 3.9%, Roma (Gypsy) 2.7%, Serb 1.8%, other 2.2% (2002 census) |
Madagascar | Malayo-Indonesian (Merina and related Betsileo), Cotiers (mixed
African, Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry - Betsimisaraka,
Tsimihety, Antaisaka, Sakalava), French, Indian, Creole, Comoran |
Malawi | Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuka, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asian, European |
Malaysia | Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, indigenous 11%, Indian 7.1%, others 7.8% (2004 est.) |
Maldives | South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs |
Mali | Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5% |
Malta | Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians, with
strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock) |
Marshall Islands | Micronesian |
Mauritania | mixed Moor/black 40%, Moor 30%, black 30% |
Mauritius | Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2% |
Mayotte | NA |
Mexico | mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1% |
Micronesia, Federated States of | Chuukese 48.8%, Pohnpeian 24.2%, Kosraean 6.2%, Yapese 5.2%, Yap outer
islands 4.5%, Asian 1.8%, Polynesian 1.5%, other 6.4%, unknown 1.4%
(2000 census) |
Moldova | Moldovan/Romanian 78.2%, Ukrainian 8.4%, Russian 5.8%, Gagauz 4.4%, Bulgarian 1.9%, other 1.3% (2004 census) |
Monaco | French 47%, Monegasque 16%, Italian 16%, other 21% |
Mongolia | Mongol (mostly Khalkha) 94.9%, Turkic (mostly Kazakh) 5%, other (including Chinese and Russian) 0.1% (2000) |
Montenegro | Montenegrin 43%, Serbian 32%, Bosniak 8%, Albanian 5%, other (Muslims, Croats, Roma (Gypsy)) 12% |
Montserrat | black, white |
Morocco | Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2% |
Mozambique | African 99.66% (Makhuwa, Tsonga, Lomwe, Sena, and others), Europeans 0.06%, Euro-Africans 0.2%, Indians 0.08% |
Namibia | black 87.5%, white 6%, mixed 6.5% |
Nauru | Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8% |
Navassa Island | |
Nepal | Chhettri 15.5%, Brahman-Hill 12.5%, Magar 7%, Tharu 6.6%, Tamang 5.5%,
Newar 5.4%, Muslim 4.2%, Kami 3.9%, Yadav 3.9%, other 32.7%,
unspecified 2.8% (2001 census) |
Netherlands | Dutch 83%, other 17% (of which 9% are non-Western origin mainly Turks,
Moroccans, Antilleans, Surinamese, and Indonesians) (1999 est.) |
Netherlands Antilles | mixed black 85%, other 15% (includes Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian) |
New Caledonia | Melanesian 42.5%, European 37.1%, Wallisian 8.4%, Polynesian 3.8%, Indonesian 3.6%, Vietnamese 1.6%, other 3% |
New Zealand | European 69.8%, Maori 7.9%, Asian 5.7%, Pacific islander 4.4%, other 0.5%, mixed 7.8%, unspecified 3.8% (2001 census) |
Nicaragua | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5% |
Niger | Haoussa 55.4%, Djerma Sonrai 21%, Touareg 9.3%, Peuhl 8.5%, Kanouri Manga 4.7%, other 1.2% (2001 census) |
Nigeria | Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250
ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically
influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw
10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5% |
Niue | Niuen 78.2%, Pacific islander 10.2%, European 4.5%, mixed 3.9%, Asian 0.2%, unspecified 3% (2001 census) |
Norfolk Island | descendants of the Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesian |
Northern Mariana Islands | Asian 56.3%, Pacific islander 36.3%, Caucasian 1.8%, other 0.8%, mixed 4.8% (2000 census) |
Norway | Norwegian, Sami 20,000 |
Pacific Ocean | |
Pakistan | Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch, Muhajir (immigrants from India at the time of partition and their descendants) |
Palau | Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 69.9%,
Filipino 15.3%, Chinese 4.9%, other Asian 2.4%, white 1.9%, Carolinian
1.4%, other Micronesian 1.1%, other or unspecified 3.2% (2000 census) |
Panama | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6% |
Papua New Guinea | Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian |
Paracel Islands | |
Paraguay | mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95%, other 5% |
Peru | Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3% |
Philippines | Tagalog 28.1%, Cebuano 13.1%, Ilocano 9%, Bisaya/Binisaya 7.6%,
Hiligaynon Ilonggo 7.5%, Bikol 6%, Waray 3.4%, other 25.3% (2000
census) |
Pitcairn Islands | descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives |
Poland | Polish 96.7%, German 0.4%, Belarusian 0.1%, Ukrainian 0.1%, other and unspecified 2.7% (2002 census) |
Portugal | homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who
immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000;
since 1990 East Europeans have entered Portugal |
Puerto Rico | white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed and other 10.9% |
Qatar | Arab 40%, Indian 18%, Pakistani 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14% |
Romania | Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 2.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%,
Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4% (2002 census) |
Uganda | Baganda 16.9%, Banyakole 9.5%, Basoga 8.4%, Bakiga 6.9%, Iteso 6.4%,
Langi 6.1%, Acholi 4.7%, Bagisu 4.6%, Lugbara 4.2%, Bunyoro 2.7%, other
29.6% (2002 census) |
Tuvalu | Polynesian 96%, Micronesian 4% |
Turks and Caicos Islands | black 90%, mixed, European, or North American 10% |
Turkmenistan | Turkmen 85%, Uzbek 5%, Russian 4%, other 6% (2003) |
Turkey | Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20% (estimated) |
Tunisia | Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1% |
Trinidad and Tobago | Indian (South Asian) 40%, African 37.5%, mixed 20.5%, other 1.2%, unspecified 0.8% (2000 census) |
Tokelau | Polynesian |
Tonga | Polynesian, Europeans |
Togo | African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1% |
Thailand | Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11% |
Tanzania | mainland - African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than
130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab);
Zanzibar - Arab, African, mixed Arab and African |
Tajikistan | Tajik 79.9%, Uzbek 15.3%, Russian 1.1%, Kyrgyz 1.1%, other 2.6% (2000 census) |
Syria | Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7% |
Switzerland | German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6% |
Sweden | indigenous population: Swedes with Finnish and Sami minorities;
foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes,
Norwegians, Greeks, Turks |
Swaziland | African 97%, European 3% |
Svalbard | Norwegian 55.4%, Russian and Ukrainian 44.3%, other 0.3% (1998) |
Suriname | Hindustani (also known locally as "East Indians"; their ancestors
emigrated from northern India in the latter part of the 19th century)
37%, Creole (mixed white and black) 31%, Javanese 15%, "Maroons" (their
African ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th
centuries as slaves and escaped to the interior) 10%, Amerindian 2%,
Chinese 2%, white 1%, other 2% |
Sudan | black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1% |
Spratly Islands | |
Sri Lanka | Sinhalese 73.8%, Sri Lankan Moors 7.2%, Indian Tamil 4.6%, Sri Lankan
Tamil 3.9%, other 0.5%, unspecified 10% (2001 census provisional data) |
Southern Ocean | |
Spain | composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | |
South Africa | black African 79%, white 9.6%, colored 8.9%, Indian/Asian 2.5% (2001 census) |
Somalia | Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including Arabs 30,000) |
Solomon Islands | Melanesian 94.5%, Polynesian 3%, Micronesian 1.2%, other 1.1%, unspecified 0.2% (1999 census) |
Slovenia | Slovene 83.1%, Serb 2%, Croat 1.8%, Bosniak 1.1%, other or unspecified 12% (2002 census) |
Slovakia | Slovak 85.8%, Hungarian 9.7%, Roma 1.7%, Ruthenian/Ukrainian 1%, other and unspecified 1.8% (2001 census) |
Singapore | Chinese 76.8%, Malay 13.9%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4% (2000 census) |
Sierra Leone | 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole
(Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in
the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's
recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and
Indians |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | over 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the
four largest tribes - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the
Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) make up about 45% of the population |
Seychelles | mixed French, African, Indian, Chinese, and Arab |
Senegal | Wolof 43.3%, Pular 23.8%, Serer 14.7%, Jola 3.7%, Mandinka 3%, Soninke 1.1%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 9.4% |
Saudi Arabia | Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10% |
Sao Tome and Principe | mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants
of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique,
and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands),
Europeans (primarily Portuguese) |
San Marino | Sammarinese, Italian |
Samoa | Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4% |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 7% |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Basques and Bretons (French fishermen) |
Saint Lucia | black 82.5%, mixed 11.9%, East Indian 2.4%, other or unspecified 3.1% (2001 census) |
Saint Helena | African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25% |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | predominantly black; some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese |
Rwanda | Hutu (Bantu) 84%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 15%, Twa (Pygmy) 1% |
Russia | Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census) |
Ukraine | Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean
Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%,
Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 census) |
United Arab Emirates | Emirati 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8% (1982) |
United Kingdom | white (of which English 83.6%, Scottish 8.6%, Welsh 4.9%, Northern
Irish 2.9%) 92.1%, black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%,
other 1.6% (2001 census) |
United States | white 81.7%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1%,
native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2% (2003 est.) |
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | |
Uruguay | white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian (practically nonexistent) |
Uzbekistan | Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5% (1996 est.) |
Vanuatu | Ni-Vanuatu 98.5%, other 1.5% (1999 Census) |
Venezuela | Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people |
Vietnam | Kinh (Viet) 86.2%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khome 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%, Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, others 4.1% (1999 census) |
Virgin Islands | black 76.2%, white 13.1%, Asian 1.1%, other 6.1%, mixed 3.5% (2000 census) |
Wake Island | |
Wallis and Futuna | Polynesian |
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | |
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | |
Oman | Arab, Baluchi, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi), African |
Iles Eparses | |
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | |
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | |
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | |
Iles Eparses | |
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | |
European Union | |
Taiwan | Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, indigenous 2% |
Zimbabwe | African 98% (Shona 82%, Ndebele 14%, other 2%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1% |
Zambia | African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2% |
Western Sahara | Arab, Berber |
Yemen | predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans |
West Bank | Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17% |
