The CIA World Factbook Edition 2022 People and Society

Ethnic groups In 36 editions of 36.

Ethnic groups was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 2022 edition carries it in 236 entries, in its People and Society section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

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Africa

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Algeria

Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1%

note: although almost all Algerians are Berber in origin (not Arab), only a minority identify themselves as primarily Berber, about 15% of the total population; these people live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie east of Algiers and several other communities; 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 officially recognized Berber languages and introduced them into public schools

Angola

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

Benin

  • Fon and related 38.4%,
  • Adja and related 15.1%,
  • Yoruba and related 12%,
  • Bariba and related 9.6%,
  • Fulani and related 8.6%,
  • Ottamari and related 6.1%,
  • Yoa-Lokpa and related 4.3%,
  • Dendi and related 2.9%,
  • other 0.9%,
  • foreigner 1.9% (2013 est.)

Botswana

  • Tswana (or Setswana) 79%,
  • Kalanga 11%,
  • Basarwa 3%,
  • other,
  • including Kgalagadi and people of European ancestry 7%

Burkina Faso

  • Mossi 52%,
  • Fulani 8.4%,
  • Gurma 7%,
  • Bobo 4.9%,
  • Gurunsi 4.6%,
  • Senufo 4.5%,
  • Bissa 3.7%,
  • Lobi 2.4%,
  • Dagara 2.4%,
  • Tuareg/Bella 1.9%,
  • Dioula 0.8%,
  • unspecified/no answer 0.3%,
  • other 7.2% (2010 est.)

Burundi

  • Hutu,
  • Tutsi,
  • Twa (Pygmy)

Cabo Verde

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

Cameroon

  • Bamileke-Bamu 24.3%,
  • Beti/Bassa,
  • Mbam 21.6%,
  • Biu-Mandara 14.6%,
  • Arab-Choa/Hausa/Kanuri 11%,
  • Adamawa-Ubangi,
  • 9.8%,
  • Grassfields 7.7%,
  • Kako,
  • Meka/Pygmy 3.3%,
  • Cotier/Ngoe/Oroko 2.7%,
  • Southwestern Bantu 0.7%,
  • foreign/other ethnic group 4.5% (2018 est.)

Central African Republic

  • Baya 28.8%,
  • Banda 22.9%,
  • Mandjia 9.9%,
  • Sara 7.9%,
  • M'Baka-Bantu 7.9%,
  • Arab-Fulani (Peul) 6%,
  • Mbum 6%,
  • Ngbanki 5.5%,
  • Zande-Nzakara 3%,
  • other Central African Republic ethnic groups 2%,
  • non-Central African Republic ethnic groups .1% (2003 est.)

Chad

  • Sara (Ngambaye/Sara/Madjingaye/Mbaye) 30.5%,
  • Kanembu/Bornu/Buduma 9.8%,
  • Arab 9.7%,
  • Wadai/Maba/Masalit/Mimi 7%,
  • Gorane 5.8%,
  • Masa/Musseye/Musgum 4.9%,
  • Bulala/Medogo/Kuka 3.7%,
  • Marba/Lele/Mesme 3.5%,
  • Mundang 2.7%,
  • Bidiyo/Migaama/Kenga/Dangleat 2.5%,
  • Dadjo/Kibet/Muro 2.4%,
  • Tupuri/Kera 2%,
  • Gabri/Kabalaye/Nanchere/Somrai 2%,
  • Fulani/Fulbe/Bodore 1.8%,
  • Karo/Zime/Peve 1.3%,
  • Baguirmi/Barma 1.2%,
  • Zaghawa/Bideyat/Kobe 1.1%,
  • Tama/Assongori/Mararit 1.1%,
  • Mesmedje/Massalat/Kadjakse 0.8%,
  • other Chadian ethnicities 3.4%,
  • Chadians of foreign ethnicities 0.9%,
  • foreign nationals 0.3%,
  • unspecified 1.7% (2014-15 est.)

Comoros

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

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • more than 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

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

  • Kongo 40.5%,
  • Teke 16.9%,
  • Mbochi 13.1%,
  • foreigner 8.2%,
  • Sangha 5.6%,
  • Mbere/Mbeti/Kele 4.4%,
  • Punu 4.3%,
  • Pygmy 1.6%,
  • Oubanguiens 1.6%,
  • Duma 1.5%,
  • Makaa 1.3%,
  • other and unspecified 1% (2014-15 est.)

Cote d'Ivoire

  • Akan 28.9%,
  • Voltaique or Gur 16.1%,
  • Northern Mande 14.5%,
  • Kru 8.5%,
  • Southern Mande 6.9%,
  • unspecified 0.9%,
  • non-Ivoirian 24.2% (2014 est.)

Djibouti

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

Egypt

  • Egyptian 99.7%, other 0.3% (2006 est.)

note: data represent respondents by nationality

Equatorial Guinea

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

Eritrea

  • Tigrinya 50%,
  • Tigre 30%,
  • Saho 4%,
  • Afar 4%,
  • Kunama 4%,
  • Bilen 3%,
  • Hedareb/Beja 2%,
  • Nara 2%,
  • Rashaida 1% (2021 est.)

note: data represent Eritrea's nine recognized ethnic groups

Eswatini

  • predominantly Swazi;
  • smaller populations of other African ethnic groups,
  • including the Zulu,
  • as well as people of European ancestry

Ethiopia

  • Oromo 35.8%,
  • Amhara 24.1%,
  • Somali 7.2%,
  • Tigray 5.7%,
  • Sidama 4.1%,
  • Guragie 2.6%,
  • Welaita 2.3%,
  • Afar 2.2%,
  • Silte 1.3%,
  • Kefficho 1.2%,
  • other 13.5% (2022 est.)

Gabon

  • Gabonese-born 80.1% (includes Fang 23.2%, Shira-Punu/Vili 18.9%, Nzabi-Duma 11.3%, Mbede-Teke 6.9%, Myene 5%, Kota-Kele 4.9%, Okande-Tsogo 2.1%, Pygmy .3%, other 7.5%),
  • Cameroonian 4.6%,
  • Malian 2.4%,
  • Beninese 2.1%,
  • acquired Gabonese nationality 1.6%,
  • Togolese 1.6%,
  • Senegalese 1.1%,
  • Congolese (Brazzaville) 1%,
  • other 5.5% (includes Congolese (Kinshasa), Equatorial Guinean, Nigerian) (2012 est.)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

  • Mandinka/Jahanka 33.3%,
  • Fulani/Tukulur/Lorobo 18.2%,
  • Wolof 12.9%,
  • Jola/Karoninka 11%,
  • Serahuleh 7.2%,
  • Serer 3.5%,
  • other 4%,
  • non-Gambian 9.9% (2019-20 est.)

Ghana

  • Akan 45.7%,
  • Mole-Dagbani 18.5%,
  • Ewe 12.8%,
  • Ga-Dangme 7.1%,
  • Gurma 6.4%,
  • Guan 3.2%,
  • Grusi 2.7%,
  • Mande 2%,
  • other 1.6% (2021 est.)

Guinea

  • Fulani (Peuhl) 33.4%,
  • Malinke 29.4%,
  • Susu 21.2%,
  • Guerze 7.8%,
  • Kissi 6.2%,
  • Toma 1.6%,
  • other/foreign 0.4% (2018 est.)

Guinea-Bissau

  • Balanta 30%,
  • Fulani 30%,
  • Manjaco 14%,
  • Mandinga 13%,
  • Papel 7%,
  • unspecified smaller ethnic groups 6% (2015 est.)

Kenya

  • Kikuyu 17.1%,
  • Luhya 14.3%,
  • Kalenjin 13.4%,
  • Luo 10.7%,
  • Kamba 9.8%,
  • Somali 5.8%,
  • Kisii 5.7%,
  • Mijikenda 5.2%,
  • Meru 4.2%,
  • Maasai 2.5%,
  • Turkana 2.1%,
  • non-Kenyan 1%,
  • other 8.2% (2019 est.)

Lesotho

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

Liberia

  • Kpelle 20.3%,
  • Bassa 13.4%,
  • Grebo 10%,
  • Gio 8%,
  • Mano 7.9%,
  • Kru 6%,
  • Lorma 5.1%,
  • Kissi 4.8%,
  • Gola 4.4%,
  • Krahn 4%,
  • Vai 4%,
  • Mandingo 3.2%,
  • Gbandi 3%,
  • Mende 1.3%,
  • Sapo 1.3%,
  • other Liberian 1.7%,
  • other African 1.4%,
  • non-African .1% (2008 est.)

Libya

Berber and Arab 97%, other 3% (includes Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Italian, Maltese, Pakistani, Tunisian, and Turkish)

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 34.3%,
  • Lomwe 18.8%,
  • Yao 13.2%,
  • Ngoni 10.4%,
  • Tumbuka 9.2%,
  • Sena 3.8%,
  • Mang'anja 3.2%,
  • Tonga 1.8%,
  • Nyanja 1.8%,
  • Nkhonde 1%,
  • other 2.2%,
  • foreign 0.3% (2018 est.)

Mali

  • Bambara 33.3%,
  • Fulani (Peuhl) 13.3%,
  • Sarakole/Soninke/Marka 9.8%,
  • Senufo/Manianka 9.6%,
  • Malinke 8.8%,
  • Dogon 8.7%,
  • Sonrai 5.9%,
  • Bobo 2.1%,
  • Tuareg/Bella 1.7%,
  • other Malian 6%,
  • from members of Economic Community of West Africa 0.4%,
  • other 0.3% (2018 est.)

Mauritania

  • Black Moors (Haratines - Arabic-speaking descendants of African origin who are or were enslaved by White Moors) 40%,
  • White Moors (of Arab-Berber descent, known as Beydane) 30%,
  • Sub-Saharan Mauritanians (non-Arabic speaking, largely resident in or originating from the Senegal River Valley, including Halpulaar, Fulani, Soninke, Wolof, and Bambara ethnic groups) 30%

Mauritius

  • Indo-Mauritian (compose approximately two thirds of the total population),
  • Creole,
  • Sino-Mauritian,
  • Franco-Mauritian

note: Mauritius has not had a question on ethnicity on its national census since 1972

Morocco

Arab-Berber 99%, other 1%

note: does not include data from the former Western Sahara

Mozambique

  • African 99% (Makhuwa, Tsonga, Lomwe, Sena, and others),
  • Mestizo 0.8%,
  • other (includes European, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese) 0.2% (2017 est.)

Namibia

  • Ovambo 50%,
  • Kavangos 9%,
  • Herero 7%,
  • Damara 7%,
  • mixed European and African ancestry 6.5%,
  • European 6%,
  • Nama 5%,
  • Caprivian 4%,
  • San 3%,
  • Baster 2%,
  • Tswana .5%

Niger

  • Hausa 53.1%,
  • Zarma/Songhai 21.2%,
  • Tuareg 11%,
  • Fulani (Peuhl) 6.5%,
  • Kanuri 5.9%,
  • Gurma 0.8%,
  • Arab 0.4%,
  • Tubu 0.4%,
  • other/unavailable 0.9% (2006 est.)

Nigeria

  • Hausa 30%,
  • Yoruba 15.5%,
  • Igbo (Ibo) 15.2%,
  • Fulani 6%,
  • Tiv 2.4%,
  • Kanuri/Beriberi 2.4%,
  • Ibibio 1.8%,
  • Ijaw/Izon 1.8%,
  • other 24.9% (2018 est.)

note: Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups

Rwanda

  • Hutu,
  • Tutsi,
  • Twa (Pygmy)

Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

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

Sao Tome and Principe

  • Mestico,
  • Angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves),
  • Forros (descendants of freed slaves),
  • Servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cabo Verde),
  • Tongas (children of servicais born on the islands),
  • Europeans (primarily Portuguese),
  • Asians (mostly Chinese)

Senegal

  • Wolof 39.7%,
  • Pular 27.5%,
  • Serer 16%,
  • Mandinka 4.9%,
  • Jola 4.2%,
  • Soninke 2.4%,
  • other 5.4% (includes Europeans and persons of Lebanese descent) (2019 est.)

Seychelles

predominantly Creole (mainly of East African and Malagasy heritage); also French, Indian, Chinese, and Arab populations

Sierra Leone

  • Temne 35.4%,
  • Mende 30.8%,
  • Limba 8.8%,
  • Kono 4.3%,
  • Korankoh 4%,
  • Fullah 3.8%,
  • Mandingo 2.8%,
  • Loko 2%,
  • Sherbro 1.9%,
  • Creole 1.2% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century; also known as Krio),
  • other 5% (2019 est.)

Somalia

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

South Africa

  • Black African 80.9%,
  • Colored 8.8%,
  • White 7.8%,
  • Indian/Asian 2.6% (2021 est.)

note: colored is a term used in South Africa, including on the national census, for persons of mixed race ancestry who developed a distinct cultural identity over several hundred years

South Sudan

  • Dinka (Jieng) approximately 35-40%,
  • Nuer (Naath) approximately 15%,
  • Shilluk (Chollo),
  • Azande,
  • Bari,
  • Kakwa,
  • Kuku,
  • Murle,
  • Mandari,
  • Didinga,
  • Ndogo,
  • Bviri,
  • Lndi,
  • Anuak,
  • Bongo,
  • Lango,
  • Dungotona,
  • Acholi,
  • Baka,
  • Fertit (2011 est.)

note: Figures are estimations due to population changes during South Sudan's civil war and the lack of updated demographic studies

Sudan

Sudanese Arab (approximately 70%), Fur, Beja, Nuba, Ingessana, Uduk, Fallata, Masalit, Dajo, Gimir, Tunjur, Berti; there are over 500 ethnic groups

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

Togo

  • Adja-Ewe/Mina 42.4%,
  • Kabye/Tem 25.9%,
  • Para-Gourma/Akan 17.1%,
  • Akposso/Akebu 4.1%,
  • Ana-Ife 3.2%,
  • other Togolese 1.7%,
  • foreigners 5.2%,
  • no response 0.4% (2013-14 est.)

note: Togo has an estimated 37 ethnic groups

Tunisia

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

Uganda

  • Baganda 16.5%,
  • Banyankole 9.6%,
  • Basoga 8.8%,
  • Bakiga 7.1%,
  • Iteso 7%,
  • Langi 6.3%,
  • Bagisu 4.9%,
  • Acholi 4.4%,
  • Lugbara 3.3%,
  • other 32.1% (2014 est.)

Zambia

  • Bemba 21%,
  • Tonga 13.6%,
  • Chewa 7.4%,
  • Lozi 5.7%,
  • Nsenga 5.3%,
  • Tumbuka 4.4%,
  • Ngoni 4%,
  • Lala 3.1%,
  • Kaonde 2.9%,
  • Namwanga 2.8%,
  • Lunda (north Western) 2.6%,
  • Mambwe 2.5%,
  • Luvale 2.2%,
  • Lamba 2.1%,
  • Ushi 1.9%,
  • Lenje 1.6%,
  • Bisa 1.6%,
  • Mbunda 1.2%,
  • other 13.8%,
  • unspecified 0.4% (2010 est.)

Zimbabwe

  • African 99.4% (predominantly Shona; Ndebele is the second largest ethnic group),
  • other 0.4%,
  • unspecified 0.2% (2012 est.)

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

Greenlandic 89.1%, Danish 7.5%, other Nordic peoples 0.9%, and other 2.5% (2022 est.)

note: data represent population by country of birth

Iceland

  • Icelandic 81.3%,
  • Polish 5.6%,
  • Danish 1%,
  • other 12.1% (2021 est.)

note : data represent population by country of birth

Svalbard

Norwegian 61.1%, foreign population 38.9% (consists primarily of Russians, Thais, Swedes, Filipinos, and Ukrainians) (2021 est.)

note: foreigners account for almost one third of the population of the Norwegian settlements, Longyearbyen and Ny-Alesund (where the majority of Svalbard's resident population lives), as of mid-2021

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

  • Current, reliable statistical data on ethnicity in Afghanistan are not available;
  • Afghanistan's 2004 Constitution cited Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Turkman, Baluch, Pachaie, Nuristani, Aymaq, Arab, Qirghiz, Qizilbash, Gujur, and Brahwui ethnicities;
  • Afghanistan has dozens of other small ethnic groups

Armenia

  • Armenian 98.1%,
  • Yezidi (Kurd) 1.2%,
  • other 0.7% (2011 est.)

Azerbaijan

  • Azerbaijani 91.6%,
  • Lezghin 2%,
  • Russian 1.3%,
  • Armenian 1.3%,
  • Talysh 1.3%,
  • other 2.4% (2009 est.)

note: the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is part of Azerbaijan on the basis of the borders recognized when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, is populated almost entirely by ethnic Armenians; Azerbaijan has over 80 ethnic groups

Bangladesh

  • Bengali at least 98.9%, other indigenous ethnic groups 1.1% (2011 est.)

note: Bangladesh's government recognizes 27 indigenous ethnic groups under the 2010 Cultural Institution for Small Anthropological Groups Act; other sources estimate there are about 75 ethnic groups; critics of the 2011 census claim that it underestimates the size of Bangladesh's ethnic population

Bhutan

  • Ngalop (also known as Bhote) 50%,
  • ethnic Nepali 35% (predominantly Lhotshampas),
  • indigenous or migrant tribes 15%

China

Han Chinese 91.1%, ethnic minorities 8.9% (includes Zhang, Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai, and other nationalities) (2021 est.)

note: the PRC officially recognizes 56 ethnic groups

Georgia

  • Georgian 86.8%,
  • Azeri 6.3%,
  • Armenian 4.5%,
  • other 2.3% (includes Russian, Ossetian, Yazidi, Ukrainian, Kist, Greek) (2014 est.)

India

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

Japan

  • Japanese 97.9%,
  • Chinese 0.6%,
  • Korean 0.4%,
  • other 1.1% (includes Vietnamese, Filipino, and Brazilian) (2017 est.)

note: data represent population by nationality; up to 230,000 Brazilians of Japanese origin migrated to Japan in the 1990s to work in industries; some have returned to Brazil

Kazakhstan

  • Kazakh (Qazaq) 68%,
  • Russian 19.3%,
  • Uzbek 3.2%,
  • Ukrainian 1.5%,
  • Uighur 1.5%,
  • Tatar 1.1%,
  • German 1%,
  • other 4.4% (2019 est.)

Korea, North now North Korea

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

Korea, South now South Korea

homogeneous

Kyrgyzstan

  • Kyrgyz 73.8%,
  • Uzbek 14.8%,
  • Russian 5.1%,
  • Dungan 1.1%,
  • other 5.2% (includes Uyghur, Tajik, Turk, Kazakh, Tatar, Ukrainian, Korean, German) (2021 est.)

Maldives

homogeneous mixture of Sinhalese, Dravidian, Arab, Australasian, and African resulting from historical changes in regional hegemony over marine trade routes

Mongolia

  • Khalkh 83.8%,
  • Kazak 3.8%,
  • Durvud 2.6%,
  • Bayad 2%,
  • Buriad 1.4%,
  • Zakhchin 1.2%,
  • Dariganga 1.1%,
  • other 4.1% (2020 est.)

Nepal

  • Chhettri 16.6%,
  • Brahman-Hill 12.2%,
  • Magar 7.1%,
  • Tharu 6.6%,
  • Tamang 5.8%,
  • Newar 5%,
  • Kami 4.8%,
  • Muslim 4.4%,
  • Yadav 4%,
  • Rai 2.3%,
  • Gurung 2%,
  • Damai/Dholii 1.8%,
  • Thakuri 1.6%,
  • Limbu 1.5%,
  • Sarki 1.4%,
  • Teli 1.4%,
  • Chamar/Harijan/Ram 1.3%,
  • Koiri/Kushwaha 1.2%,
  • other 19% (2011 est.)

note: 125 caste/ethnic groups were reported in the 2011 national census

Pakistan

  • Punjabi 44.7%,
  • Pashtun (Pathan) 15.4%,
  • Sindhi 14.1%,
  • Saraiki 8.4%,
  • Muhajirs 7.6%,
  • Balochi 3.6%,
  • other 6.3%

Russia

  • Russian 77.7%,
  • Tatar 3.7%,
  • Ukrainian 1.4%,
  • Bashkir 1.1%,
  • Chuvash 1%,
  • Chechen 1%,
  • other 10.2%,
  • unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.)

note: nearly 200 national and/or ethnic groups are represented in Russia's 2010 census

Sri Lanka

  • Sinhalese 74.9%,
  • Sri Lankan Tamil 11.2%,
  • Sri Lankan Moors 9.2%,
  • Indian Tamil 4.2%,
  • other 0.5% (2012 est.)

Tajikistan

  • Tajik 84.3% (includes Pamiri and Yagnobi),
  • Uzbek 13.8%,
  • other 2% (includes Kyrgyz, Russian, Turkmen, Tatar, Arab) (2014 est.)

Turkmenistan

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

Uzbekistan

  • Uzbek 83.8%,
  • Tajik 4.8%,
  • Kazakh 2.5%,
  • Russian 2.3%,
  • Karakalpak 2.2%,
  • Tatar 1.5%,
  • other 2.9% (2017 est.)

Central America and the Caribbean

32 entries

Anguilla

  • African/Black 85.3%,
  • Hispanic 4.9%,
  • mixed 3.8%,
  • White 3.2%,
  • East Indian/Indian 1%,
  • other 1.6%,
  • unspecified 0.3% (2011 est.)

note: data represent population by ethnic origin

Antigua and Barbuda

  • African descent 87.3%,
  • mixed 4.7%,
  • Hispanic 2.7%,
  • White 1.6%,
  • other 2.7%,
  • unspecified 0.9% (2011 est.)

note: data represent population by ethnic group

Aruba

  • Dutch 78.7%,
  • Colombian 6.6%,
  • Venezuelan 5.5%,
  • Dominican 2.8%,
  • Haitian 1.3%,
  • other 5.1% (2020 est.)

note: data represent population by nationality

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

  • African descent 90.6%,
  • White 4.7%,
  • mixed 2.1%,
  • other 1.9%,
  • unspecified 0.7% (2010 est.)

note: data represent population by racial group

Barbados

  • African descent 92.4%,
  • mixed 3.1%,
  • White 2.7%,
  • East Indian 1.3%,
  • other 0.2%,
  • unspecified 0.3% (2010 est.)

Belize

  • Mestizo 52.9%,
  • Creole 25.9%,
  • Maya 11.3%,
  • Garifuna 6.1%,
  • East Indian 3.9%,
  • Mennonite 3.6%,
  • White 1.2%,
  • Asian 1%,
  • other 1.2%,
  • unknown 0.3% (2010 est.)

note: percentages add up to more than 100% because respondents were able to identify more than one ethnic origin

British Virgin Islands

  • African/Black 76.3%,
  • Latino 5.5%,
  • White 5.4%,
  • mixed 5.3%,
  • Indian 2.1%,
  • East Indian 1.6%,
  • other 3%,
  • unspecified 0.8% (2010 est.)

Cayman Islands

  • mixed 40%,
  • White 20%,
  • African descent 20%,
  • expatriates of various ethnic groups 20%

Costa Rica

  • White or Mestizo 83.6%,
  • Mulatto 6.7%,
  • Indigenous 2.4%,
  • Black or African descent 1.1%,
  • other 1.1%,
  • none 2.9%,
  • unspecified 2.2% (2011 est.)

Cuba

  • White 64.1%,
  • Mulatto or mixed 26.6%,
  • Black 9.3% (2012 est.)

note: data represent racial self-identification from Cuba's 2012 national census

Curacao

  • Curacaoan 75.4%,
  • Dutch 6%,
  • Dominican 3.6%,
  • Colombian 3%,
  • Bonairean,
  • Sint Eustatian,
  • Saban 1.5%,
  • Haitian 1.2%,
  • Surinamese 1.2%,
  • Venezuelan 1.1%,
  • Aruban 1.1%,
  • other 5%,
  • unspecified 0.9% (2011 est.)

Dominica

  • African descent 84.5%,
  • mixed 9%,
  • Indigenous 3.8%,
  • other 2.1%,
  • unspecified 0.6% (2011 est.)

Dominican Republic

  • mixed 70.4% (Mestizo/Indio 58%, Mulatto 12.4%),
  • Black 15.8%,
  • White 13.5%,
  • other 0.3% (2014 est.)

note: respondents self-identified their race; the term "indio" in the Dominican Republic is not associated with people of indigenous ancestry but people of mixed ancestry or skin color between light and dark

El Salvador

  • Mestizo 86.3%,
  • White 12.7%,
  • Amerindian 0.2% (includes Lenca, Kakawira, Nahua-Pipil),
  • Black 0.1%,
  • other 0.6% (2007 est.)

Grenada

  • African descent 82.4%,
  • mixed 13.3%,
  • East Indian 2.2%,
  • other 1.3%,
  • unspecified 0.9% (2011 est.)

Guatemala

  • Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish - in local Spanish called Ladino) 56%,
  • Maya 41.7%,
  • Xinca (Indigenous, non-Maya) 1.8%,
  • African descent 0.2%,
  • Garifuna (mixed West and Central African, Island Carib, and Arawak) 0.1%,
  • foreign 0.2% (2018 est.)

Haiti

Black 95%, mixed and White 5%

Honduras

  • Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%,
  • Amerindian 7%,
  • African descent 2%,
  • White 1%

Jamaica

  • Black 92.1%,
  • mixed 6.1%,
  • East Indian 0.8%,
  • other 0.4%,
  • unspecified 0.7% (2011 est.)

Montserrat

  • African/Black 86.2%,
  • mixed 4.8%,
  • Hispanic/Spanish 3%,
  • Caucasian/White 2.7%,
  • East Indian/Indian 1.6%,
  • other 1.8% (2018 est.)

Nicaragua

  • Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and White) 69%,
  • White 17%,
  • Black 9%,
  • Amerindian 5%

Panama

  • Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and White) 65%,
  • Native American 12.3% (Ngabe 7.6%, Kuna 2.4%, Embera 0.9%, Bugle 0.8%, other 0.4%, unspecified 0.2%),
  • Black or African descent 9.2%,
  • Mulatto 6.8%,
  • White 6.7% (2010 est.)

Puerto Rico

  • White 75.8%,
  • Black/African American 12.4%,
  • other 8.5% (includes American Indian, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, other Pacific Islander, and others),
  • mixed 3.3% (2010 est.)

note: 99% of the population is Latino

Saint Barthelemy

  • French,
  • Portuguese,
  • Caribbean,
  • Afro-Caribbean

Saint Kitts and Nevis

  • African descent 92.5%,
  • mixed 3%,
  • White 2.1%,
  • East Indian 1.5%,
  • other 0.6%,
  • unspecified 0.3% (2001 est.)

Saint Lucia

  • Black/African descent 85.3%,
  • mixed 10.9%,
  • East Indian 2.2%,
  • other 1.6%,
  • unspecified 0.1% (2010 est.)

Saint Martin

  • Creole (Mulatto),
  • Black,
  • Guadeloupe Mestizo (French-East Asian),
  • White,
  • East Indian,
  • other

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

  • African descent 71.2%,
  • mixed 23%,
  • Indigenous 3%,
  • East Indian/Indian 1.1%,
  • European 1.5%,
  • other 0.2% (2012 est.)

Sint Maarten

  • Saint Maarten 29.9%,
  • Dominican Republic 10.2%,
  • Haiti 7.8%,
  • Jamaica 6.6%,
  • Saint Martin 5.9%,
  • Guyana 5%,
  • Dominica 4.4%,
  • Curacao 4.1%,
  • Aruba 3.4%,
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.8%,
  • India 2.6%,
  • Netherlands 2.2%,
  • US 1.6%,
  • Suriname 1.4%,
  • Saint Lucia 1.3%,
  • Anguilla 1.1%,
  • other 8%,
  • unspecified 1.7% (2011 est.)

note: data represent population by country of birth

Trinidad and Tobago

  • East Indian 35.4%,
  • African descent 34.2%,
  • mixed - other 15.3%,
  • mixed - African/East Indian 7.7%,
  • other 1.3%,
  • unspecified 6.2% (2011 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands

  • Black 87.6%,
  • White 7.9%,
  • mixed 2.5%,
  • East Indian 1.3%,
  • other 0.7% (2006 est.)

Virgin Islands

  • Black 76%,
  • White 15.6%,
  • Asian 1.4%,
  • other 4.9%,
  • mixed 2.1% (2010 est.)

note: 17.4% self-identify as Latino

Europe

48 entries

Albania

  • Albanian 82.6%,
  • Greek 0.9%,
  • other 1% (including Vlach, Romani, Macedonian, Montenegrin, and Egyptian),
  • unspecified 15.5% (2011 est.)

note: data represent population by ethnic and cultural affiliation

Andorra

  • Andorran 48.3%,
  • Spanish 24.8%,
  • Portuguese 11.2%,
  • French 4.5%,
  • Argentine 1.4%,
  • other 9.8% (2021 est.)

note: data represent population by nationality

Austria

  • Austrian 80.8%,
  • German 2.6%,
  • Bosnian and Herzegovinian 1.9%,
  • Turkish 1.8%,
  • Serbian 1.6%,
  • Romanian 1.3%,
  • other 10% (2018 est.)

note: data represent population by country of birth

Belarus

  • Belarusian 83.7%,
  • Russian 8.3%,
  • Polish 3.1%,
  • Ukrainian 1.7%,
  • other 2.4%,
  • unspecified 0.9% (2009 est.)

Belgium

  • Belgian 75.2%,
  • Italian 4.1%,
  • Moroccan 3.7%,
  • French 2.4%,
  • Turkish 2%,
  • Dutch 2%,
  • other 10.6% (2012 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Bosniak 50.1%,
  • Serb 30.8%,
  • Croat 15.4%,
  • other 2.7%,
  • not declared/no answer 1% (2013 est.)

note: Republika Srpska authorities dispute the methodology and refuse to recognize the results; Bosniak has replaced Muslim as an ethnic term in part to avoid confusion with the religious term Muslim - an adherent of Islam

Bulgaria

  • Bulgarian 76.9%,
  • Turkish 8%,
  • Romani 4.4%,
  • other 0.7% (including Russian, Armenian, and Vlach),
  • other (unknown) 10% (2011 est.)

note: Romani populations are usually underestimated in official statistics and may represent 9–11% of Bulgaria's population

Croatia

  • Croat 90.4%,
  • Serb 4.4%,
  • other 4.4% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Romani),
  • unspecified 0.8% (2011 est.)

Czechia

  • Czech 57.3%,
  • Moravian 3.4%,
  • other 7.7%,
  • unspecified 31.6% (2021 est.)

note: includes only persons with one ethnicity

Denmark

  • Danish (includes Greenlandic (who are predominantly Inuit) and Faroese) 85.6%,
  • Turkish 1.1%,
  • other 13.3% (largest groups are Polish, Syrian, Romanian, German, and Iraqi) (2022 est.)

note: data represent population by ancestry

Estonia

  • Estonian 68.7%,
  • Russian 24.8%,
  • Ukrainian 1.7%,
  • Belarusian 1%,
  • Finn 0.6%,
  • other 1.6%,
  • unspecified 1.6% (2011 est.)

Faroe Islands

  • Faroese 85.3% (Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon descent),
  • Danish 8.3%,
  • other Nordic 1.4%,
  • other 4.5% (includes Filipino, Poland, Romanian) (2022 est.)

note: data represent respondents by country of birth

Finland

  • Finnish,
  • Swedish,
  • Russian,
  • Estonian,
  • Romani,
  • Sami

note: 91.5% of the population has a Finnish background

France

  • Celtic and Latin with Teutonic,
  • Slavic,
  • North African (Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian),
  • Indochinese,
  • Basque minorities

note: overseas departments: Black, White, Mulatto, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian

Germany

  • German 86.3%,
  • Turkish 1.8%,
  • Polish 1%,
  • Syrian 1%,
  • Romanian 1%,
  • other/stateless/unspecified 8.9% (2020 est.)

note: data represent population by nationality

Gibraltar

  • Gibraltarian 79%,
  • other British 13.2%,
  • Spanish 2.1%,
  • Moroccan 1.6%,
  • other EU 2.4%,
  • other 1.6% (2012 est.)

note: data represent population by nationality

Greece

  • Greek 91.6%,
  • Albanian 4.4%,
  • other 4% (2011 est.)

note: data represent citizenship; Greece does not collect data on ethnicity

Guernsey

  • Guernsey 53.1%,
  • UK and Ireland 23.9%,
  • Portugal 2.2%,
  • Latvia 1.5%,
  • other Europe 2.8%,
  • other 4.4%,
  • unspecified 11.4% (2020 est.)

note: data represent population by country of birth; the native population is of British and Norman-French descent

Holy See (Vatican City)

Italian, Swiss, Argentinian, and other nationalities from around the world (2017)

Hungary

  • Hungarian 85.6%,
  • Romani 3.2%,
  • German 1.9%,
  • other 2.6%,
  • unspecified 14.1% (2011 est.)

note: percentages add up to more than 100% because respondents were able to identify more than one ethnic group; Romani populations are usually underestimated in official statistics and may represent 5–10% of Hungary's population

Ireland

  • Irish 82.2%,
  • Irish travelers 0.7%,
  • other White 9.5%,
  • Asian 2.1%,
  • Black 1.4%,
  • other 1.5%,
  • unspecified 2.6% (2016 est.)

Isle of Man

  • White 94.7%,
  • Asian 3.1%,
  • Mixed 1%,
  • Black 0.6%,
  • other 0.4% (2021 est.)

note: data represent population by nationality

Italy

Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)

Jersey

  • Jersey 44.4%,
  • British 30.5%,
  • Portuguese/Madeiran 9.4%,
  • Polish 3%,
  • Irish 2.1%,
  • other 10.6% (2021 est.)

Kosovo

  • Albanians 92.9%,
  • Bosniaks 1.6%,
  • Serbs 1.5%,
  • Turk 1.1%,
  • Ashkali 0.9%,
  • Egyptian 0.7%,
  • Gorani 0.6%,
  • Romani 0.5%,
  • other/unspecified 0.2% (2011 est.)

note: these estimates may under-represent Serb, Romani, and some other ethnic minorities because they are based on the 2011 Kosovo national census, which excluded northern Kosovo (a largely Serb-inhabited region) and was partially boycotted by Serb and Romani communities in southern Kosovo

Latvia

  • Latvian 62.7%,
  • Russian 24.5%,
  • Belarusian 3.1%,
  • Ukrainian 2.2%,
  • Polish 2%,
  • Lithuanian 1.1%,
  • other 1.8%,
  • unspecified 2.6% (2021 est.)

Liechtenstein

  • Liechtensteiner 65.5%,
  • Swiss 9.6%,
  • Austrian 6%,
  • German 4.5%,
  • Italian 3.1%,
  • other 11.4% (2020 est.)

note: data represent population by nationality

Lithuania

  • Lithuanian 84.6%,
  • Polish 6.5%,
  • Russian 5%,
  • Belarusian 1%,
  • other 1.1%,
  • unspecified 1.8% (2021 est.)

Luxembourg

  • Luxembourger 52.9%,
  • Portuguese 14.5%,
  • French 7.6%,
  • Italian 3.7%,
  • Belgian 3%,
  • German 2%,
  • Spanish 1.3%,
  • Romania 1%,
  • other 14% (2022 est.)

note: data represent population by nationality

Malta

Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians with strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock)

Moldova

  • Moldovan 75.1%,
  • Romanian 7%,
  • Ukrainian 6.6%,
  • Gagauz 4.6%,
  • Russian 4.1%,
  • Bulgarian 1.9%,
  • other 0.8% (2014 est.)

Monaco

  • Monegasque 32.1%,
  • French 19.9%,
  • Italian 15.3%,
  • British 5%,
  • Belgian 2.3%,
  • Swiss 2%,
  • German 1.9%,
  • Russian 1.8%,
  • American 1.1%,
  • Dutch 1.1%,
  • Moroccan 1%,
  • other 16.6% (2016 est.)

note: data represent population by country of birth

Montenegro

  • Montenegrin 45%,
  • Serbian 28.7%,
  • Bosniak 8.7%,
  • Albanian 4.9%,
  • Muslim 3.3%,
  • Romani 1%,
  • Croat 1%,
  • other 2.6%,
  • unspecified 4.9% (2011 est.)

Netherlands

  • Dutch 75.4%,
  • EU (excluding Dutch) 6.4%,
  • Turkish 2.4%,
  • Moroccan 2.4%,
  • Surinamese 2.1%,
  • Indonesian 2%,
  • other 9.3% (2021 est.)

North Macedonia

Macedonian 58.4%, Albanian 24.3%, Turkish 3.9%, Romani 2.5%, Serb 1.3%, other 2.3%, persons for whom data were taken from administrative sources and no ethnic affiliation data was available 7.2% (2021 est.)

note: data represent total resident population; Romani populations are usually underestimated in official statistics and may represent 6.5–13% of North Macedonia’s population

Norway

  • Norwegian 81.5% (includes about 60,000 Sami),
  • other European 8.9%,
  • other 9.6% (2021 est.)

Poland

  • Polish 96.9%,
  • Silesian 1.1%,
  • German 0.2%,
  • Ukrainian 0.1%,
  • other and unspecified 1.7% (2011 est.)

note: represents ethnicity declared first

Portugal

Portuguese 95%; citizens from Portugal’s former colonies in Africa, Asia (Han Chinese), and South America (Brazilian) and other foreign born 5%

Romania

  • Romanian 83.4%,
  • Hungarian 6.1%,
  • Romani 3.1%,
  • Ukrainian 0.3%,
  • German 0.2%,
  • other 0.7%,
  • unspecified 6.1% (2011 est.)

note: Romani populations are usually underestimated in official statistics and may represent 5–11% of Romania's population

San Marino

Sammarinese, Italian

Serbia

  • Serb 83.3%,
  • Hungarian 3.5%,
  • Romani 2.1%,
  • Bosniak 2%,
  • other 5.7%,
  • undeclared or unknown 3.4% (2011 est.)

note: most ethnic Albanians boycotted the 2011 census; Romani populations are usually underestimated in official statistics and may represent 5–11% of Serbia's population

Slovakia

  • Slovak 83.8%,
  • Hungarian 7.8%,
  • Romani 1.2%,
  • other 1.8% (includes Czech, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish),
  • unspecified 5.4% (2021 est.)

note: data represent population by nationality; Romani populations are usually underestimated in official statistics and may represent 7–11% of Slovakia's population

Slovenia

  • Slovene 83.1%,
  • Serb 2%,
  • Croat 1.8%,
  • Bosniak 1.1%,
  • other or unspecified 12% (2002 est.)

Spain

  • Spanish 84.8%,
  • Moroccan 1.7%,
  • Romanian 1.2%,
  • other 12.3% (2021 est.)

note: data represent population by country of birth

Sweden

  • Swedish 80.3%,
  • Syrian 1.9%,
  • Iraqi 1.4%,
  • Finnish 1.4%,
  • other 15% (2020 est.)

note: data represent the population by country of birth; the indigenous Sami people are estimated to number between 20,000 and 40,000

Switzerland

  • Swiss 69.2%,
  • German 4.2%,
  • Italian 3.2%,
  • Portuguese 2.5%,
  • French 2.1%,
  • Kosovan 1.1%,
  • Turkish 1%,
  • other 16.7% (2020 est.)

note: data represent permanent and non-permanent resident population by country of birth

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 est.)

United Kingdom

  • White 87.2%,
  • Black/African/Caribbean/black British 3%,
  • Asian/Asian British: Indian 2.3%,
  • Asian/Asian British: Pakistani 1.9%,
  • mixed 2%,
  • other 3.7% (2011 est.)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

  • Bahraini 46%,
  • Asian 45.5%,
  • other Arab 4.7%,
  • African 1.6%,
  • European 1%,
  • other 1.2% (includes Gulf Co-operative country nationals, North and South Americans, and Oceanians) (2010 est.)

Cyprus

  • Greek 98.8%,
  • other 1% (includes Maronite, Armenian, Turkish-Cypriot),
  • unspecified 0.2% (2011 est.)

note: data represent only the Greek-Cypriot citizens in the Republic of Cyprus

Gaza Strip

Palestinian Arab

Iran

Persian, Azeri, Kurd, Lur, Baloch, Arab, Turkmen, and Turkic tribes

Iraq

  • Arab 75-80%,
  • Kurdish 15-20%,
  • other 5% (includes Turkmen, Yezidi, Shabak, Kaka'i, Bedouin, Romani, Assyrian, Circassian, Sabaean-Mandaean, Persian)

note: data is a 1987 government estimate; no more recent reliable numbers are available

Israel

  • Jewish 74% (of which Israel-born 78.7%, Europe/America/Oceania-born 14.8%, Africa-born 4.2%, Asia-born 2.3%),
  • Arab 21.1%,
  • other 4.9% (2020 est.)

Jordan

  • Jordanian 69.3%,
  • Syrian 13.3%,
  • Palestinian 6.7%,
  • Egyptian 6.7%,
  • Iraqi 1.4%,
  • other 2.6% (includes Armenian, Circassian) (2015 est.)

note: data represent population by self-identified nationality

Kuwait

  • Kuwaiti 30.4%,
  • other Arab 27.4%,
  • Asian 40.3%,
  • African 1%,
  • other 0.9% (includes European, North American, South American, and Australian) (2018 est.)

Lebanon

  • Arab 95%,
  • Armenian 4%,
  • other 1%

note: many Christian Lebanese do not identify themselves as Arab but rather as descendants of the ancient Canaanites and prefer to be called Phoenicians

Oman

  • Arab,
  • Baluchi,
  • South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi),
  • African

Qatar

  • non-Qatari 88.4%, Qatari 11.6% (2015 est.)

Saudi Arabia

Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10%

Syria

  • Arab ~50%,
  • Alawite ~15%,
  • Kurd ~10%,
  • Levantine ~10%,
  • other ~15% (includes Druze, Ismaili, Imami, Nusairi, Assyrian, Turkoman, Armenian)

Turkey (Turkiye) now Turkiye

  • Turkish 70-75%,
  • Kurdish 19%,
  • other minorities 6-11% (2016 est.)

United Arab Emirates

  • Emirati 11.6%,
  • South Asian 59.4% (includes Indian 38.2%, Bangladeshi 9.5%, Pakistani 9.4%, other 2.3%),
  • Egyptian 10.2%,
  • Filipino 6.1%,
  • other 12.8% (2015 est.)

note : data represent the total population; as of 2019, immigrants make up about 87.9% of the total population, according to UN data

West Bank

  • Palestinian Arab,
  • Jewish,
  • other

Yemen

  • predominantly Arab;
  • but also Afro-Arab,
  • South Asian,
  • European

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

  • African descent 52%,
  • White 31%,
  • mixed 9%,
  • Asian 4%,
  • other 4% (2010 est.)

Canada

  • Canadian 32.3%,
  • English 18.3%,
  • Scottish 13.9%,
  • French 13.6%,
  • Irish 13.4%,
  • German 9.6%,
  • Chinese 5.1%,
  • Italian 4.6%,
  • North American Indian 4.4%,
  • East Indian 4%,
  • Ukrainian 3.9%,
  • other 47.7% (2016 est.)

note: percentages add up to more than 100% because respondents were able to identify more than one ethnic origin

Mexico

  • Mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 62%,
  • predominantly Amerindian 21%,
  • Amerindian 7%,
  • other 10% (mostly European) (2012 est.)

note: Mexico does not collect census data on ethnicity

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Basques and Bretons (French fishermen)

United States

  • White 61.6%,
  • Black or African American 12.4%,
  • Asian 6%,
  • Amerindian and Alaska native 1.1%,
  • Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.2%,
  • other 8.4%,
  • two or more races 10.2% (2020 est.)

note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean persons of Spanish/Hispanic/Latino origin including those of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican Republic, Spanish, and Central or South American origin living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (White, Black, Asian, etc.); an estimated 18.7% of the total US population is Hispanic as of 2020

Oceania

25 entries

American Samoa

  • Pacific Islander 88.7% (includes Samoan 83.2%, Tongan 2.2%, other 3.3%),
  • Asian 5.8% (includes Filipino 3.4%, other 2.4%),
  • mixed 4.4%,
  • other 1.1% (2020 est.)

note: data represent population by ethnic origin or race

Australia

  • English 33%,
  • Australian 29.9%,
  • Irish 9.5%,
  • Scottish 8.6%,
  • Chinese 5.5%,
  • Italian 4.4%,
  • German 4%,
  • Indian 3.1%,
  • Australian Aboriginal 2.9%,
  • Greek 1.7%,
  • unspecified 4.7%
  • (2021 est.)

note: data represent self-identified ancestry, with the option of reporting two ancestries

Cook Islands

  • Cook Island Maori (Polynesian) 81.3%,
  • part Cook Island Maori 6.7%,
  • other 11.9% (2011 est.)

Fiji

  • iTaukei 56.8% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture),
  • Indo-Fijian 37.5%,
  • Rotuman 1.2%,
  • other 4.5% (European, part European, other Pacific Islanders, Chinese) (2007 est.)

note: a 2010 law replaces 'Fijian' with 'iTaukei' when referring to the original and native settlers of Fiji

French Polynesia

  • Polynesian 78%,
  • Chinese 12%,
  • local French 6%,
  • metropolitan French 4%

Guam

  • Chamorro 37.3%,
  • Filipino 26.3%,
  • White 7.1%,
  • Chuukese 7%,
  • Korean 2.2%,
  • other Pacific Islander 2%,
  • other Asian 2%,
  • Chinese 1.6%,
  • Palauan 1.6%,
  • Japanese 1.5%,
  • Pohnpeian 1.4%,
  • mixed 9.4%,
  • other 0.6% (2010 est.)

Kiribati

  • I-Kiribati 95.78%,
  • I-Kiribati/mixed 3.8%,
  • Tuvaluan 0.2%,
  • other 1.7% (2020 est.)

Marshall Islands

  • Marshallese 92.1%,
  • mixed Marshallese 5.9%,
  • other 2% (2006 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

  • Chuukese/Mortlockese 49.3%,
  • Pohnpeian 29.8%,
  • Kosraean 6.3%,
  • Yapese 5.7%,
  • Yap outer islanders 5.1%,
  • Polynesian 1.6%,
  • Asian 1.4%,
  • other 0.8% (2010 est.)

Nauru

  • Nauruan 88.9%,
  • part Nauruan 6.6%,
  • I-Kiribati 2%,
  • other 2.5% (2007 est.)

New Caledonia

  • Kanak 39.1%,
  • European 27.1%,
  • Wallisian,
  • Futunian 8.2%,
  • Tahitian 2.1%,
  • Indonesian 1.4%,
  • Ni-Vanuatu 1%,
  • Vietnamese 0.9%,
  • other 17.7%,
  • unspecified 2.5% (2014 est.)

New Zealand

  • European 64.1%,
  • Maori 16.5%,
  • Chinese 4.9%,
  • Indian 4.7%,
  • Samoan 3.9%,
  • Tongan 1.8%,
  • Cook Islands Maori 1.7%,
  • English 1.5%,
  • Filipino 1.5%,
  • New Zealander 1%,
  • other 13.7% (2018 est.)

note: based on the 2018 census of the usually resident population; percentages add up to more than 100% because respondents were able to identify more than one ethnic group

Niue

  • Niuean 65.4%,
  • part-Niuean 14%,
  • non-Niuean 20.6% (2017 est.)

note: data represent the resident population

Norfolk Island

  • Australian 22.8%,
  • English 22.4%,
  • Pitcairn Islander 20%,
  • Scottish 6%,
  • Irish 5.2% (2011 est.)

note: respondents were able to identify up to two ancestries; percentages represent a proportion of all responses from people in Norfolk Island, including those who did not identify an ancestry; only top responses are shown

Northern Mariana Islands

  • Asian 50% (includes Filipino 35.3%, Chinese 6.8%, Korean 4.2%, and other Asian 3.7%),
  • Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 34.9% (includes Chamorro 23.9%, Carolinian 4.6%, and other Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 6.4%),
  • other 2.5%,
  • two or more ethnicities or races 12.7% (2010 est.)

Palau

  • Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 73%,
  • Carolinian 2%,
  • Asian 21.7%,
  • Caucasian 1.2%,
  • other 2.1% (2015 est.)

Papua New Guinea

  • Melanesian,
  • Papuan,
  • Negrito,
  • Micronesian,
  • Polynesian

Pitcairn Islands

descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives

Samoa

  • Samoan 96%,
  • Samoan/New Zealander 2%,
  • other 1.9% (2011 est.)

note: data represent the population by country of citizenship

Solomon Islands

  • Melanesian 95.3%,
  • Polynesian 3.1%,
  • Micronesian 1.2%,
  • other 0.3% (2009 est.)

Tokelau

  • Tokelauan 64.5%,
  • part Tokelauan/Samoan 9.7%,
  • part Tokelauan/Tuvaluan 2.8%,
  • Tuvaluan 7.5%,
  • Samoan 5.8%,
  • other Pacific Islander 3.4%,
  • other 5.6%,
  • unspecified 0.8% (2016 est.)

Tonga

  • Tongan 97%,
  • part-Tongan 0.8%,
  • other 2.2%,
  • unspecified <0.1% (2016 est.)

Tuvalu

  • Tuvaluan 97%,
  • Tuvaluan/I-Kiribati 1.6%,
  • Tuvaluan/other 0.8%,
  • other 0.6% (2017 est.)

Vanuatu

  • Melanesian 99.2%, non-Melanesian 0.8% (2016 est.)

Wallis and Futuna

Polynesian

South America

13 entries

Argentina

  • European (mostly Spanish and Italian descent) and Mestizo (mixed European and Amerindian ancestry) 97.2%,
  • Amerindian 2.4%,
  • African descent 0.4% (2010 est.)

Bolivia

  • Mestizo (mixed White and Amerindian ancestry) 68%, Indigenous 20%, White 5%, Cholo/Chola 2%, African descent 1%, other 1%, unspecified 3%;
  • 44% of respondents indicated feeling part of some indigenous group, predominantly Quechua or Aymara (2009 est.)

note: results among surveys vary based on the wording of the ethnicity question and the available response choices; the 2001 national census did not provide "Mestizo" as a response choice, resulting in a much higher proportion of respondents identifying themselves as belonging to one of the available indigenous ethnicity choices; the use of "Mestizo" and "Cholo" varies among response choices in surveys, with surveys using the terms interchangeably, providing one or the other as a response choice, or providing the two as separate response choices

Brazil

  • White 47.7%,
  • mixed 43.1%,
  • Black 7.6%,
  • Asian 1.1%,
  • Indigenous 0.4% (2010 est.)

Chile

  • White and non-Indigenous 88.9%,
  • Mapuche 9.1%,
  • Aymara 0.7%,
  • other Indigenous groups 1% (includes Rapa Nui, Likan Antai, Quechua, Colla, Diaguita, Kawesqar, Yagan or Yamana),
  • unspecified 0.3% (2012 est.)

Colombia

  • Mestizo and White 87.6%,
  • Afro-Colombian (includes Mulatto, Raizal, and Palenquero) 6.8%,
  • Amerindian 4.3%,
  • unspecified 1.4% (2018 est.)

Ecuador

  • Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and White) 71.9%,
  • Montubio 7.4%,
  • Amerindian 7%,
  • White 6.1%,
  • Afroecuadorian 4.3%,
  • Mulatto 1.9%,
  • Black 1%,
  • other 0.4% (2010 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

  • Falkland Islander 48.3%,
  • British 23.1%,
  • St. Helenian 7.5%,
  • Chilean 4.6%,
  • mixed 6%,
  • other 8.5%,
  • unspecified 2% (2016 est.)

note: data represent population by national identity

Guyana

  • East Indian 39.8%,
  • African descent 29.3%,
  • mixed 19.9%,
  • Amerindian 10.5%,
  • other 0.5% (includes Portuguese, Chinese, White) (2012 est.)

Paraguay

Mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian ancestry) 95%, other 5%

Peru

  • Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and White) 60.2%,
  • Amerindian 25.8%,
  • White 5.9%,
  • African descent 3.6%,
  • other (includes Chinese and Japanese descent) 1.2%,
  • unspecified 3.3% (2017 est.)

Suriname

  • Hindustani (also known locally as "East Indians"; their ancestors emigrated from northern India in the latter part of the 19th century) 27.4%,
  • Maroon (their African ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves and escaped to the interior) 21.7%,
  • Creole (mixed White and Black) 15.7%,
  • Javanese 13.7%,
  • mixed 13.4%,
  • other 7.6%,
  • unspecified 0.6% (2012 est.)

Uruguay

  • White 87.7%,
  • Black 4.6%,
  • Indigenous 2.4%,
  • other 0.3%,
  • none or unspecified 5% (2011 est.)

note: data represent primary ethnic identity

Venezuela

  • unspecified Spanish,
  • Italian,
  • Portuguese,
  • Arab,
  • German,
  • African,
  • Indigenous

Southeast Asia

16 entries

Brunei

  • Malay 67.4%,
  • Chinese 9.6%,
  • other 23% (2021 est.)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

  • Burman (Bamar) 68%,
  • Shan 9%,
  • Karen 7%,
  • Rakhine 4%,
  • Chinese 3%,
  • Indian 2%,
  • Mon 2%,
  • other 5%

note: government recognizes 135 indigenous ethnic groups

Cambodia

  • Khmer 95.4%,
  • Cham 2.4%,
  • Chinese 1.5%,
  • other 0.7% (2019-20 est.)

Christmas Island

  • Chinese 70%,
  • European 20%,
  • Malay 10% (2001)

note: no indigenous population

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Europeans, Cocos Malays

Hong Kong

  • Chinese 92%,
  • Filipino 2.5%,
  • Indonesian 2.1%,
  • other 3.4% (2016 est.)

Indonesia

  • Javanese 40.1%,
  • Sundanese 15.5%,
  • Malay 3.7%,
  • Batak 3.6%,
  • Madurese 3%,
  • Betawi 2.9%,
  • Minangkabau 2.7%,
  • Buginese 2.7%,
  • Bantenese 2%,
  • Banjarese 1.7%,
  • Balinese 1.7%,
  • Acehnese 1.4%,
  • Dayak 1.4%,
  • Sasak 1.3%,
  • Chinese 1.2%,
  • other 15% (2010 est.)

Laos

  • Lao 53.2%,
  • Khmou 11%,
  • Hmong 9.2%,
  • Phouthay 3.4%,
  • Tai 3.1%,
  • Makong 2.5%,
  • Katong 2.2%,
  • Lue 2%,
  • Akha 1.8%,
  • other 11.6% (2015 est.)

note: the Laos Government officially recognizes 49 ethnic groups, but the total number of ethnic groups is estimated to be well over 200

Macau

  • Chinese 88.7%,
  • Portuguese 1.1%,
  • mixed 1.1%,
  • other 9.2% (includes Macanese - mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry) (2016 est.)

Malaysia

  • Bumiputera 62.5% (Malays and indigenous peoples, including Orang Asli, Dayak, Anak Negeri),
  • Chinese 20.6%,
  • Indian 6.2%,
  • other 0.9%,
  • non-citizens 9.8% (2019 est.)

Philippines

  • Tagalog 24.4%,
  • Bisaya/Binisaya 11.4%,
  • Cebuano 9.9%,
  • Ilocano 8.8%,
  • Hiligaynon/Ilonggo 8.4%,
  • Bikol/Bicol 6.8%,
  • Waray 4%,
  • other local ethnicity 26.1%,
  • other foreign ethnicity 0.1% (2010 est.)

Singapore

  • Chinese 74.2%,
  • Malay 13.7%,
  • Indian 8.9%,
  • other 3.2% (2021 est.)

note: data represent population by self-identification; the population is divided into four categories: Chinese, Malay (includes indigenous Malays and Indonesians), Indian (includes Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, or Sri Lankan), and other ethnic groups (includes Eurasians, Caucasians, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese)

Taiwan

Han Chinese (including Holo, who compose approximately 70% of Taiwan's population, Hakka, and other groups originating in mainland China) more than 95%, indigenous Malayo-Polynesian peoples 2.3%

note 1: there are 16 officially recognized indigenous groups: Amis, Atayal, Bunun, Hla'alua, Kanakaravu, Kavalan, Paiwan, Puyuma, Rukai, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Seediq, Thao, Truku, Tsou, and Yami; Amis, Paiwan, and Atayal are the largest and account for roughly 70% of the indigenous population

note 2: although not definitive, the majority of current genetic, archeological, and linguistic data support the theory that Taiwan is the ultimate source for the spread of humans across the Pacific to Polynesia; the expansion (ca. 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1200) took place via the Philippines and eastern Indonesia and reached Fiji and Tonga by about 900 B.C.; from there voyagers spread across the rest of the Pacific islands over the next two millennia

Thailand

  • Thai 97.5%,
  • Burmese 1.3%,
  • other 1.1%,
  • unspecified <0.1% (2015 est.)

note: data represent population by nationality

Timor-Leste

  • Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) (includes Tetun, Mambai, Tokodede, Galoli, Kemak, Baikeno),
  • Melanesian-Papuan (includes Bunak, Fataluku, Bakasai),
  • small Chinese minority

Vietnam

  • Kinh (Viet) 85.3%,
  • Tay 1.9%,
  • Thai 1.9%,
  • Muong 1.5%,
  • Khmer 1.4%,
  • Mong 1.4%,
  • Nung 1.1%,
  • other 5.5% (2019 est.)

note: 54 ethnic groups are recognized by the Vietnamese Government

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2022, “Ethnic groups”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/ethnic-groups/2022.

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