| Country | Ethnic groups |
| Poland | Polish 96.7%, German 0.4%, Belarusian 0.1%, Ukrainian 0.1%, other and unspecified 2.7% (2002 census) |
| 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 4.2%, other 6.7% (2000 census) |
| Qatar | Arab 40%, Indian 18%, Pakistani 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14% |
| 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 census) |
| Russia | Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census) |
| Rwanda | Hutu (Bantu) 84%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 15%, Twa (Pygmy) 1% |
| Saint Barthelemy | white, Creole (mulatto), black, Guadeloupe Mestizo (French-East Asia) |
| Saint Helena | African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25% |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | predominantly black; some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese |
| Saint Lucia | black 82.5%, mixed 11.9%, East Indian 2.4%, other or unspecified 3.1% (2001 census) |
| Saint Martin | creole (mulatto), black, Guadeloupe Mestizo (French-East Asia), white, East Indian |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Basques and Bretons (French fishermen) |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, European 4%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 3% |
| Samoa |  Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians (persons of European and Polynesian blood) 7%, Europeans 0.4% (2001 census) |
| 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 | Serb 82.9%, Hungarian 3.9%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.4%, Yugoslavs 1.1%, Bosniaks 1.8%, Montenegrin 0.9%, other 8% (2002 census) |
| Seychelles | mixed French, African, Indian, Chinese, and Arab |
| Sierra Leone | 20 African ethnic groups 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 76.8%, Malay 13.9%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4% (2000 census) |
| Slovakia | Slovak 85.8%, Hungarian 9.7%, Roma 1.7%, Ruthenian/Ukrainian 1%, other and unspecified 1.8% (2001 census) |
| Slovenia | Slovene 83.1%, Serb 2%, Croat 1.8%, Bosniak 1.1%, other or unspecified 12% (2002 census) |
| Solomon Islands | Melanesian 94.5%, Polynesian 3%, Micronesian 1.2%, other 1.1%, unspecified 0.2% (1999 census) |
| Somalia | Somali 85%, Bantu and other non-Somali 15% (including Arabs 30,000) |
| South Africa | black African 79%, white 9.6%, colored 8.9%, Indian/Asian 2.5% (2001 census) |
| South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | void |
| Southern Ocean | void |
| Spain | composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types |
| Spratly Islands | void |
| Sri Lanka | 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) |
| 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% |
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This page was last updated on 6 October, 2008 |
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