word | | Ethnic groups |
Amerindian
map | Mexico | mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1% |
Amerindian
map | Nicaragua | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5% |
Amerindian
map | Panama | mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6% |
Amerindian
map | Paraguay | mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) 95%, other 5% |
Amerindian
map | Peru | Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3% |
Amerindian
map | Puerto Rico | white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed 4.2%, other 6.7% (2000 census ... |
Amerindian
map | Suriname | ... 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 |
Amerindian
map | United States | ... Asian 4.43%, Amerindian and Alaska native 0.97%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.18%, two or more races 1.61% (July 2007 estimate) note: a separate listing for Hispanic is ... |
Amerindian
map | Uruguay | white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian (practically nonexistent) |
| Amerindian ancestry | Argentina | white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry), Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3% |
| Amerindian ancestry | Bolivia | Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15% |
| Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian | Mexico | mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1% |
| an adherent of Islam | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosniak 48%, Serb 37.1%, 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 |
| Andorran | Andorra | Spanish 43%, Andorran 33%, Portuguese 11%, French 7%, other 6% (1998) |
| angolares | 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) |
| Annobon | Equatorial Guinea | ... Fang 85.7%, Bubi 6.5%, Mdowe 3.6%, Annobon 1.6%, Bujeba 1.1%, other 1.4% (1994 census ... |
| Antaisaka | Madagascar | Malayo-Indonesian (Merina and related Betsileo), Cotiers (mixed African, Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry - Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety, Antaisaka, Sakalava), French, Indian, Creole, Comoran |
| Antalote | Comoros | Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava |
| approximately | Burkina Faso | Mossi over 40%, other approximately 60% (includes Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, and Fulani) |
Arab
map | 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 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 |
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This page was last updated on 30 November, 2008 |
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