Ethnic groups In 36 editions of 36.

Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1%

note: although almost all Algerians are Berber in origin (not Arab), only a minority identify themselves as Berber, about 15% of the total population; these people live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie east of Algiers; the Berbers are also Muslim but identify with their Berber rather than Arab cultural heritage; Berbers have long agitated, sometimes violently, for autonomy; the government is unlikely to grant autonomy but has offered to begin sponsoring teaching Berber language in schools

• Ovimbundu 37%,
• Kimbundu 25%,
• Bakongo 13%,
• mestico (mixed European and native African) 2%,
• European 1%,
• other 22%

• 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)

• Tswana (or Setswana) 79%,
• Kalanga 11%,
• Basarwa 3%,
• other,
• including Kgalagadi and white 7%

Mossi over 40%, other approximately 60% (includes Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, and Fulani)

Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000

• Creole (mulatto) 71%,
• African 28%,
• European 1%

• Cameroon Highlanders 31%,
• Equatorial Bantu 19%,
• Kirdi 11%,
• Fulani 10%,
• Northwestern Bantu 8%,
• Eastern Nigritic 7%,
• other African 13%,
• non-African less than 1%

• Baya 33%,
• Banda 27%,
• Mandjia 13%,
• Sara 10%,
• Mboum 7%,
• M'Baka 4%,
• Yakoma 4%,
• other 2%

• 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)

• Antalote,
• Cafre,
• Makoa,
• Oimatsaha,
• Sakalava

• 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

• Kongo 48%,
• Sangha 20%,
• M'Bochi 12%,
• Teke 17%,
• Europeans and other 3%

• 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)

• Somali 60%,
• Afar 35%,
• other 5% (includes French, Arab, Ethiopian, and Italian)

• Egyptian 99.6%, other 0.4% (2006 census)

• Fang 85.7%,
• Bubi 6.5%,
• Mdowe 3.6%,
• Annobon 1.6%,
• Bujeba 1.1%,
• other 1.4% (1994 census)

nine recognized ethnic groups:

Tigrinya 55%

Tigre 30%

• Tigrinya 55%,
• Tigre 30%,
• Saho 4%,
• Kunama 2%,
• Rashaida 2%,
• Bilen 2%,
• other (Afar, Beni Amir, Nera) 5% (2010 est.)

African 97%, European 3%

• Oromo 34.5%,
• Amara 26.9%,
• Somalie 6.2%,
• Tigraway 6.1%,
• Sidama 4%,
• Guragie 2.5%,
• Welaita 2.3%,
• Hadiya 1.7%,
• Affar 1.7%,
• Gamo 1.5%,
• Gedeo 1.3%,
• other 11.3% (2007 Census)

• 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

African 99% (Mandinka 42%, Fula 18%, Wolof 16%, Jola 10%, Serahuli 9%, other 4%), non-African 1% (2003 census)

• 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)

• Peuhl 40%,
• Malinke 30%,
• Soussou 20%,
• smaller ethnic groups 10%

African 99% (includes Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1%

• Kikuyu 22%,
• Luhya 14%,
• Luo 13%,
• Kalenjin 12%,
• Kamba 11%,
• Kisii 6%,
• Meru 6%,
• other African 15%,
• non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1%

Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%,

• Kpelle 20.3%,
• Bassa 13.4%,
• Grebo 10%,
• Gio 8%,
• Mano 7.9%,
• Kru 6%,
• Lorma 5.1%,
• Kissi 4.8%,
• Gola 4.4%,
• other 20.1% (2008 census)

Berber and Arab 97%, other 3% (includes Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, and Tunisians)

• Malayo-Indonesian (Merina and related Betsileo),
• Cotiers (mixed African, Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry - Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety, Antaisaka, Sakalava),
• French,
• Indian,
• Creole,
• Comoran

• Chewa 32.6%,
• Lomwe 17.6%,
• Yao 13.5%,
• Ngoni 11.5%,
• Tumbuka 8.8%,
• Nyanja 5.8%,
• Sena 3.6%,
• Tonga 2.1%,
• Ngonde 1%,
• other 3.5% (2008 census)

• Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke),
• Peul 17%,
• Voltaic 12%,
• Songhai 6%,
• Tuareg and Moor 10%,
• other 5%

• mixed Moor/black 40%,
• Moor 30%,
• black 30%

• Indo-Mauritian 68%,
• Creole 27%,
• Sino-Mauritian 3%,
• Franco-Mauritian 2%

NA

Arab-Berber 99%, other 1%

• African 99.66% (Makhuwa, Tsonga, Lomwe, Sena, and others),
• Europeans 0.06%,
• Euro-Africans 0.2%,
• Indians 0.08%

• 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 include Herero 7%, Damara 7%, Nama 5%, Caprivian 4%, Bushmen 3%, Baster 2%, Tswana 0.5%

• Haoussa 55.4%,
• Djerma Sonrai 21%,
• Tuareg 9.3%,
• Peuhl 8.5%,
• Kanouri Manga 4.7%,
• other 1.2% (2001 census)

• 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%

• Hutu (Bantu) 84%,
• Tutsi (Hamitic) 15%,
• Twa (Pygmy) 1%

• African descent 50%,
• white 25%,
• Chinese 25%

• 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)

• Wolof 43.3%,
• Pular 23.8%,
• Serer 14.7%,
• Jola 3.7%,
• Mandinka 3%,
• Soninke 1.1%,
• European and Lebanese 1%,
• other 9.4%

mixed French, African, Indian, Chinese, and Arab

• Temne 35%,
• Mende 31%,
• Limba 8%,
• Kono 5%,
• Kriole 2% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century; also known as Krio),
• Mandingo 2%,
• Loko 2%,
• other 15% (includes refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, and small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians) (2008 census)

Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including 30,000 Arabs)

• black African 79%,
• white 9.6%,
• colored 8.9%,
• Indian/Asian 2.5% (2001 census)

• Dinka,
• Kakwa,
• Bari,
• Azande,
• Shilluk,
• Kuku,
• Murle,
• Mandari,
• Didinga,
• Ndogo,
• Bviri,
• Lndi,
• Anuak,
• Bongo,
• Lango,
• Dungotona,
• Acholi

• Sudanese Arab (approximately 70%),
• Fur,
• Beja,
• Nuba,
• Fallata

• 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

African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1%

• Arab 98%,
• European 1%,
• Jewish and other 1%

• 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)

Arab, Berber

African 99.5% (includes Bemba, Tonga, Chewa, Lozi, Nsenga, Tumbuka, Ngoni, Lala, Kaonde, Lunda, and other African groups), other 0.5% (includes Europeans, Asians, and Americans) (2000 Census)

• African 98% (Shona 82%, Ndebele 14%, other 2%),
• mixed and Asian 1%,
• white less than 1%

• Inuit 89%, Danish and other 11% (2009)

homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%, population of foreign origin 6%

• Norwegian 55.4%,
• Russian and Ukrainian 44.3%,
• other 0.3% (1998)

• Pashtun 42%,
• Tajik 27%,
• Hazara 9%,
• Uzbek 9%,
• Aimak 4%,
• Turkmen 3%,
• Baloch 2%,
• other 4%

• Armenian 97.9%,
• Yezidi (Kurd) 1.3%,
• Russian 0.5%,
• other 0.3% (2001 census)

• Azeri 90.6%,
• Dagestani 2.2%,
• Russian 1.8%,
• Armenian 1.5%,
• other 3.9% (1999 census)

note: almost all Armenians live in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region

• Bengali 98%, other 2% (includes tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims) (1998)

• Bhote 50%,
• ethnic Nepalese 35% (includes Lhotsampas - one of several Nepalese ethnic groups),
• indigenous or migrant tribes 15%

Han Chinese 91.5%, Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5% (2000 census)

• Georgian 83.8%,
• Azeri 6.5%,
• Armenian 5.7%,
• Russian 1.5%,
• other 2.5% (2002 census)

• Indo-Aryan 72%,
• Dravidian 25%,
• Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)

• Japanese 98.5%,
• Koreans 0.5%,
• Chinese 0.4%,
• other 0.6%

note: up to 230,000 Brazilians of Japanese origin migrated to Japan in the 1990s to work in industries; some have returned to Brazil (2004)

• Kazakh (Qazaq) 63.1%,
• Russian 23.7%,
• Uzbek 2.8%,
• Ukrainian 2.1%,
• Uighur 1.4%,
• Tatar 1.3%,
• German 1.1%,
• other 4.5% (2009 census)

racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese

homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese)

• Kyrgyz 64.9%,
• Uzbek 13.8%,
• Russian 12.5%,
• Dungan 1.1%,
• Ukrainian 1%,
• Uighur 1%,
• other 5.7% (1999 census)

• South Indians,
• Sinhalese,
• Arabs

• Mongol (mostly Khalkha) 94.9%,
• Turkic (mostly Kazakh) 5%,
• other (including Chinese and Russian) 0.1% (2000)

• 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)

• Punjabi 44.68%,
• Pashtun (Pathan) 15.42%,
• Sindhi 14.1%,
• Sariaki 8.38%,
• Muhajirs 7.57%,
• Balochi 3.57%,
• other 6.28%

• Russian 79.8%,
• Tatar 3.8%,
• Ukrainian 2%,
• Bashkir 1.2%,
• Chuvash 1.1%,
• other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census)

• 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)

• Tajik 79.9%,
• Uzbek 15.3%,
• Russian 1.1%,
• Kyrgyz 1.1%,
• other 2.6% (2000 census)

• Turkmen 85%,
• Uzbek 5%,
• Russian 4%,
• other 6% (2003)

• Uzbek 80%,
• Russian 5.5%,
• Tajik 5%,
• Kazakh 3%,
• Karakalpak 2.5%,
• Tatar 1.5%,
• other 2.5% (1996 est.)

• black (predominant) 90.1%,
• mixed,
• mulatto 4.6%,
• white 3.7%,
• other 1.5% (2001 census)

• black 91%,
• mixed 4.4%,
• white 1.7%,
• other 2.9% (2001 census)

mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian 80%, other 20%

• black 85%,
• white 12%,
• Asian and Hispanic 3%

• black 93%,
• white 3.2%,
• mixed 2.6%,
• East Indian 1%,
• other 0.2% (2000 census)

• mestizo 48.7%,
• Creole 24.9%,
• Maya 10.6%,
• Garifuna 6.1%,
• other 9.7% (2000 census)

• black 82%,
• white 6.8%,
• other 11.2% (includes Indian and mixed) (2008)

• mixed 40%,
• white 20%,
• black 20%,
• expatriates of various ethnic groups 20%

• white (including mestizo) 94%,
• black 3%,
• Amerindian 1%,
• Chinese 1%,
• other 1%

• white 65.1%,
• mulatto and mestizo 24.8%,
• black 10.1% (2002 census)

• black 86.8%,
• mixed 8.9%,
• Carib Amerindian 2.9%,
• white 0.8%,
• other 0.7% (2001 census)

• mixed 73%,
• white 16%,
• black 11%

• mestizo 90%,
• white 9%,
• Amerindian 1%

black 82%, mixed black and European 13%, European and East Indian 5%, and trace of Arawak/Carib Amerindian

• 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)

black 95%, mulatto and white 5%

• mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%,
• Amerindian 7%,
• black 2%,
• white 1%

• black 91.2%,
• mixed 6.2%,
• other or unknown 2.6% (2001 census)

black, white

• mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%,
• white 17%,
• black 9%,
• Amerindian 5%

• mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%,
• Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%,
• white 10%,
• Amerindian 6%