Ethnic groups (2004)

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	Afghanistan	Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4%
	Albania	Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Roma (Gypsy), Serb, and Macedonian or Bulgarian) (1989 est.) note: in 1989, other estimates of the Greek population ranged from 1% (official Albanian statistics) to 12% (from a Greek organization)
	Algeria	Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% note: almost all Algerians are Berber in origin, not Arab; the minority who identify themselves as Berber live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie east of Algeirs; 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
	American Samoa	Samoan (Polynesian) 89%, Caucasian 2%, Tongan 4%, other 5%
	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), mulatto, white
	Antigua and Barbuda	black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian
	Argentina	white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo, Amerindian, or other nonwhite groups 3%
	Armenia	Armenian 93%, Azeri 1%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 4% (2002) note: as of the end of 1993, virtually all Azeris had emigrated from Armenia
	Aruba	mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian 80%
	Australia	Caucasian 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1%
	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)
	Azerbaijan	Azeri 90%, Dagestani 3.2%, Russian 2.5%, Armenian 2%, other 2.3% (1998 est.) note: almost all Armenians live in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region
	Bahamas, The	black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3%
	Bahrain	Bahraini 63%, Asian 19%, other Arab 10%, Iranian 8%
	Bangladesh	Bengali 98%, tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims (1998)
	Barbados	black 90%, white 4%, Asian and mixed 6%
	Belarus	Belarusian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish, Ukrainian, and other 7.4%
	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	African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 5,500
	Bermuda	black 58%, white 36%, other 6%
	Bhutan	Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35% (includes Lhotsampas - one of several Nepalese ethnic groups), indigenous or migrant tribes 15%
	Bolivia	Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15%
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Serb 37.1%, Bosniak 48%, Croat 14.3%, other 0.6% (2000) note: Bosniak has replaced Muslim as an ethnic term in part to avoid confusion with the religious term Muslim - an adherent of Islam
	Botswana	Tswana (or Setswana) 79%, Kalanga 11%, Basarwa 3%, other, including Kgalagadi and white 7%
	Brazil	white (includes Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) 55%, mixed white and black 38%, black 6%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 1%
	British Virgin Islands	black 83%, 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)
	Burkina Faso	Mossi over 40%, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, 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	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
	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% note: no indigenous population (2001)
	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
	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
	Congo, Republic of the	Kongo 48%, Sangha 20%, M'Bochi 12%, Teke 17%, Europeans and other 3% note: Europeans estimated at 8,500, mostly French, before the 1997 civil war; may be half that in 1998, following the widespread destruction of foreign businesses in 1997
	Cook Islands	Polynesian (full blood) 81.3%, Polynesian and European 7.7%, Polynesian and non-European 7.7%, European 2.4%, other 0.9%
	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%, 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)
	Cuba	mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1%
	Cyprus	Greek 77%, Turkish 18%, other 5% (2001)
	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)
	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
	Dominican Republic	white 16%, black 11%, mixed 73%
	East Timor	Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority
	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%
	El Salvador	mestizo 90%, Amerindian 1%, white 9%
	Equatorial Guinea	Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos), Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly Spanish
	Eritrea	ethnic Tigrinya 50%, Tigre and Kunama 40%, Afar 4%, Saho (Red Sea coast dwellers) 3%, other 3%
	Estonia	Estonian 65.3%, Russian 28.1%, Ukrainian 2.5%, Belarusian 1.5%, Finn 1%, other 1.6% (1998)
	Ethiopia	Oromo 40%, Amhara and Tigre 32%, Sidamo 9%, Shankella 6%, Somali 6%, Afar 4%, Gurage 2%, other 1%
	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	British
	Faroe Islands	Scandinavian
	Fiji	Fijian 51% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture), Indian 44%, European, other Pacific Islanders, overseas Chinese, and other 5% (1998 est.)
	Finland	Finn 93.4%, Swede 5.7%, Russian 0.4%, Estonian 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Sami 0.1%
	France	Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities
	French Guiana	black or mulatto 66%, white 12%, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian 12%, other 10%
	French Polynesia	Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4%
	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 70.1%, Armenian 8.1%, Russian 6.3%, Azeri 5.7%, Ossetian 3%, Abkhaz 1.8%, other 5%
	Germany	German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish)
	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
	Greece	Greek 98%, other 2% note: the Greek Government states there are no ethnic divisions in Greece
	Greenland	Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (January 2000)
	Grenada	black 82%, mixed black and European 13%, European and East Indian 5% , and trace of Arawak/Carib Amerindian
	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%
	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%
	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% (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%
	Holy See (Vatican City)	Italians, Swiss, other
	Honduras	mestizo (mixed Amerindian and European) 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1%
	Hong Kong	Chinese 95%, other 5%
	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%
	India	Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
	Indonesia	Javanese 45%, Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5%, coastal Malays 7.5%, other 26%
	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), Briton
	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)
	Jamaica	black 90.9%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.1%
	Japan	Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914) 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)
	Jersey	UK and Norman-French descent
	Jordan	Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1%
	Kazakhstan	Kazakh (Qazaq) 53.4%, Russian 30%, Ukrainian 3.7%, Uzbek 2.5%, German 2.4%, Uygur 1.4%, other 6.6% (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	predominantly Micronesian with some Polynesian
	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 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)
	Libya	Berber and Arab 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians
	Liechtenstein	Alemannic 86%, Italian, Turkish, and other 14%
	Lithuania	Lithuanian 80.6%, Russian 8.7%, Polish 7%, Belarusian 1.6%, other 2.1%
	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%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry), Portuguese, other
	Macedonia	Macedonian 64.2%, Albanian 25.2%, Turkish 3.8%, Roma 2.7%, Serb 1.8%, other 2.3% (2002)
	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 and other indigenous 58%, Chinese 24%, Indian 8%, others 10% (2000)
	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
	Martinique	African and African-white-Indian mixture 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Chinese less than 5%
	Mauritania	mixed Maur/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	nine ethnic Micronesian and Polynesian groups
	Moldova	Moldovan/Romanian 64.5%, Ukrainian 13.8%, Russian 13%, Jewish 1.5%, Bulgarian 2%, Gagauz and other 5.2% (1989 est.) note: internal disputes with ethnic Slavs in the Transnistrian region
	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)
	Montserrat	black, white
	Morocco	Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2%
	Mozambique	indigenous tribal groups 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% 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%
	Nauru	Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8%
	Nepal	Brahman, Chetri, Newar, Gurung, Magar, Tamang, Rai, Limbu, Sherpa, Tharu, and others (1995)
	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%, 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	New Zealand European 74.5%, Maori 9.7%, other European 4.6%, Pacific Islander 3.8%, Asian and others 7.4%
	Nicaragua	mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5%
	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
	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%
	Niue	Polynesian (with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and Tongans)
	Norfolk Island	descendants of the Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesians
	Northern Mariana Islands	Chamorro, Carolinians and other Micronesians, Caucasian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean
	Norway	Norwegian, Sami 20,000
	Oman	Arab, Baluchi, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi), African
	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) 70%, Asian (mainly Filipinos, followed by Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese) 28%, white 2% (2000 est.)
	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
	Paraguay	mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95%
	Peru	Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3%
	Philippines	Christian Malay 91.5%, Muslim Malay 4%, Chinese 1.5%, other 3%
	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 2.7% (2002)
	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%, Pakistani 18%, Indian 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14%
	Reunion	French, African, Malagasy, Chinese, Pakistani, Indian
	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)
	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%
	Saint Helena	African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25%
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	predominantly black; some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese
	Saint Lucia	black 90%, mixed 6%, East Indian 3%, white 1%
	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Basques and Bretons (French fishermen)
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 7%
	Samoa	Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4%
	San Marino	Sammarinese, Italian
	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)
	Saudi Arabia	Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10%
	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%
	Serbia and Montenegro	Serb 62.6%, Albanian 16.5%, Montenegrin 5%, Hungarian 3.3%, other 12.6% (1991)
	Seychelles	mixed French, African, Indian, Chinese, and Arab
	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
	Singapore	Chinese 76.7%, Malay 14%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4%
	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)
	Slovenia	Slovene 92%, Croat 1%, Serb 0.5%, Hungarian 0.4%, Bosniak 0.3%, other 5.8% (1991)
	Solomon Islands	Melanesian 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other 0.4%
	Somalia	Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including Arabs 30,000)
	South Africa	black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Colored 8.6%, Indian 2.6%
	Spain	composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types
	Sri Lanka	Sinhalese 74%, Tamil 18%, Moor 7%, Burgher, Malay, and Vedda 1%
	Sudan	black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1%
	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%
	Svalbard	Norwegian 55.4%, Russian and Ukrainian 44.3%, other 0.3% (1998)
	Swaziland	African 97%, European 3%
	Sweden	indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks
	Switzerland	German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6%
	Syria	Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%
	Taiwan	Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2%
	Tajikistan	Tajik 64.9%, Uzbek 25%, Russian 3.5% (declining because of emigration), other 6.6%
	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
	Thailand	Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%
	Togo	native African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1%
	Tokelau	Polynesian
	Tonga	Polynesian, Europeans about 300
	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%
	Tunisia	Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1%
	Turkey	Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20% (estimated)
	Turkmenistan	Turkmen 85%, Uzbek 5%, Russian 4%, other 6% (2003)
	Turks and Caicos Islands	black 90%, mixed, European, or North American 10%
	Tuvalu	Polynesian 96%, Micronesian 4%
	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%
	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 Arab Emirates	Emirati 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8% (1982) note: less than 20% are UAE citizens (1982)
	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%
	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) note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.)
	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	indigenous Melanesian 98%, French, Vietnamese, Chinese, other Pacific Islanders
	Venezuela	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people
	Vietnam	Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese, Hmong, Thai, Khmer, Cham, mountain groups
	Virgin Islands	black 78%, white 10%, other 12% note: West Indian 81% (49% born in the Virgin Islands and 32% born elsewhere in the West Indies), US mainland 13%, Puerto Rican 4%, other 2%
	Wallis and Futuna	Polynesian
	West Bank	Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17%
	Western Sahara	Arab, Berber
	Yemen	predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans
	Zambia	African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2%
	Zimbabwe	African 98% (Shona 82%, Ndebele 14%, other 2%), mixed and Asian 1%, white less than 1%