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SOURCE
CIA World Factbook, December 2003
DEFINITION
People Statistics > Ethnic groups > A note (most recent) by country
Showing latest available data.
| Countries (A to Z) |
Description |
| Albania |
in 1989, other estimates of the Greek population ranged from 1% (official Albanian statistics) to 12% (from a Greek organization) |
| Armenia |
as of the end of 1993, virtually all Azeris had emigrated from Armenia |
| Azerbaijan |
almost all Armenians live in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Bosniak has replaced Muslim as an ethnic term in part to avoid confusion with the religious term Muslim - an adherent of Islam |
| Christmas Island |
no indigenous population (2001) |
| Congo, Republic of the |
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 |
| Greece |
the Greek Government states there are no ethnic divisions in Greece |
| Moldova |
internal disputes with ethnic Slavs in the Transnistrian region |
| Namibia |
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% |
| United Arab Emirates |
less than 20% are UAE citizens (1982) |
| United States |
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.) |
| Virgin Islands |
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% |
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
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