demographics
Apr. 3rd, 2009 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccThis started out as curiosity in response to a comment on this post, namely:
However, the US is the most ethnically and religiously heterogeneous republic in the world.
Which got me wondering and wikipediaing. (And procrastinating, although you'd probably guessed that already.)
OK, from Wikipedia:
The USA:
* Total population: 299 million
* White alone: 74% or 221.3 million
o Not including the 23.2 million White Hispanic and Latino Americans: 66% or 198.1
million
* Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, of any race: 14.8% or about 44.3 million
* Black or African American alone: 13.4% or 40.9 million
* Some other race alone: 6.5% or 19 million
* Asian alone: 4.4% or 13.1 million
* Two or more races: 2.0% or 6.1 million
* American Indian or Alaska Native alone: 0.68% or 2.0 million
* Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander alone: 0.14% or 0.43 million
These figures add up to more than 100% on this list because Hispanic and Latino Americans are distributed among all the races and are also listed as an ethnicity category, resulting in a double count.
OK. I hadn't been previously aware that there were Alaskan Native Hispanic people, but I'm happy to accept that.
The UK:
Ethnic group Population % of total*
White British 50,366,497 85.67%
White (other) 3,096,169 5.27%
Indian 1,053,411 1.8%
Pakistani 747,285 1.3%
White Irish 691,232 1.2%
Mixed race 677,117 1.2%
Black Caribbean 565,876 1.0%
Black African 485,277 0.8%
Bangladeshi 283,063 0.5%
Other Asian (non-Chinese) 247,644 0.4%
Chinese 247,403 0.4%
Other 230,615 0.4%
Black (others) 97,585 0.2%
I was surprised by this, from watching things like The Bill I actually thought the non-white population was a lot higher percentage-wise than this seems to indicate. Presumably that's a function of where The Bill is set - Taggart for example is a lot less ethnically diverse (including anyone non-Glaswegian come to think of it. Rebus has more diversity, including intra-Scottish/UK diversity, again probably a function of setting.)
Australia:
In the 2006 Australian Census participants were asked to nominate up to two ethnic groups to define their ancestry, considering that some Australians have a few ethnicities and are of mixed origin. Proportionate to the Australian resident population, the most commonly nominated ancestries were:
* Australian (37.13%)
* English (31.65%)
* Irish (9.08%)
* Scottish (7.56%)
* Italian (4.29%)
* German (4.09%)
* Chinese (3.37%)
* Greek (1.84%)
* Dutch (1.56%)
* Indian (1.18%)
* Lebanese (0.92%)
* Vietnamese (0.87%)
* Polish (0.82%)
* New Zealander (0.81%)
* Filipino (0.81%)
* Maltese (0.77%)
* Croatian (0.59%)
* Australian Aboriginal (0.58%)
* Welsh (0.57%)
* French (0.5%)
* Serbian (0.48%)
* Maori (0.47%)
* Spanish (0.42%)
* Macedonian (0.42%)
* South African (0.4%)
* Sinhalese (0.37%)
* Hungarian (0.3%)
* Russian (0.3%)
* Turkish (0.3%)
* American (0.28%)
And again all these mixed ethnicities buggering up the nice percentages!
Damn, so much for my easy comparisons, I was hoping for a nice, relaxed, across the board "Black/White/Asian/Other". Like, for example Brazil:
The only relatively isolated minority ethnic groups in Brazil are various non-assimilated indigenous tribes, comprising less than 1% of the population, who live in officially delimited reservations and either avoid contact with other peoples, or constitute separate social and political communities.
The rest of the population can be considered a single "Brazilian" ethnic group, with highly varied racial types and backgrounds, but without clear ethnic sub-divisions. By physical type, a recent survey gives 53% "white", 38% "mixed", 6% "black", 1% "other".
See, easily categorised percentages. Well, sort of.
Anyway, this has bugger all to do with the original article I linked to, I was just curious about the claim of being the most ethnically and religiously heterogeneous republic in the world. I think on ethnicity you could make an argument for Brazil, on religion though I think the US probably has it.
On and for curiosity's sake again:
South Africa:
black 79.5%, white 9.2%, Coloured 8.9%, Asian 2.5% (2006 est.)
And just for comparison's sake:
Percentage of population in prison in those countries:
US: 737 persons imprisoned per 100,000 population (2005)
UK: 135 per 100,000 population (my maths hopefully are right here - England is 139, the rest are varying and I've done the addition/division thing of all UK territories listed.)
Australia: 116 per 100,000 (seems high).
South Africa: 404 per 100,000
Brazil: 133 per 100,000
Incidentally the highest percentage of population currently known to be imprisoned is apparently in Rwanda (1132 per 100,000), ethnic breakdown pretty limited. And of course China and various other places don't list all their prisons or prisoners.
Yes, I know this is going nowhere, I was just interested. And waiting for my stats to finish running. But I really don't think the level of ethnic diversity is the sole reason for the current high level of imprisonment by the US of its population.
However, the US is the most ethnically and religiously heterogeneous republic in the world.
Which got me wondering and wikipediaing. (And procrastinating, although you'd probably guessed that already.)
OK, from Wikipedia:
The USA:
* Total population: 299 million
* White alone: 74% or 221.3 million
o Not including the 23.2 million White Hispanic and Latino Americans: 66% or 198.1
million
* Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, of any race: 14.8% or about 44.3 million
* Black or African American alone: 13.4% or 40.9 million
* Some other race alone: 6.5% or 19 million
* Asian alone: 4.4% or 13.1 million
* Two or more races: 2.0% or 6.1 million
* American Indian or Alaska Native alone: 0.68% or 2.0 million
* Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander alone: 0.14% or 0.43 million
These figures add up to more than 100% on this list because Hispanic and Latino Americans are distributed among all the races and are also listed as an ethnicity category, resulting in a double count.
OK. I hadn't been previously aware that there were Alaskan Native Hispanic people, but I'm happy to accept that.
The UK:
Ethnic group Population % of total*
White British 50,366,497 85.67%
White (other) 3,096,169 5.27%
Indian 1,053,411 1.8%
Pakistani 747,285 1.3%
White Irish 691,232 1.2%
Mixed race 677,117 1.2%
Black Caribbean 565,876 1.0%
Black African 485,277 0.8%
Bangladeshi 283,063 0.5%
Other Asian (non-Chinese) 247,644 0.4%
Chinese 247,403 0.4%
Other 230,615 0.4%
Black (others) 97,585 0.2%
I was surprised by this, from watching things like The Bill I actually thought the non-white population was a lot higher percentage-wise than this seems to indicate. Presumably that's a function of where The Bill is set - Taggart for example is a lot less ethnically diverse (including anyone non-Glaswegian come to think of it. Rebus has more diversity, including intra-Scottish/UK diversity, again probably a function of setting.)
Australia:
In the 2006 Australian Census participants were asked to nominate up to two ethnic groups to define their ancestry, considering that some Australians have a few ethnicities and are of mixed origin. Proportionate to the Australian resident population, the most commonly nominated ancestries were:
* Australian (37.13%)
* English (31.65%)
* Irish (9.08%)
* Scottish (7.56%)
* Italian (4.29%)
* German (4.09%)
* Chinese (3.37%)
* Greek (1.84%)
* Dutch (1.56%)
* Indian (1.18%)
* Lebanese (0.92%)
* Vietnamese (0.87%)
* Polish (0.82%)
* New Zealander (0.81%)
* Filipino (0.81%)
* Maltese (0.77%)
* Croatian (0.59%)
* Australian Aboriginal (0.58%)
* Welsh (0.57%)
* French (0.5%)
* Serbian (0.48%)
* Maori (0.47%)
* Spanish (0.42%)
* Macedonian (0.42%)
* South African (0.4%)
* Sinhalese (0.37%)
* Hungarian (0.3%)
* Russian (0.3%)
* Turkish (0.3%)
* American (0.28%)
And again all these mixed ethnicities buggering up the nice percentages!
Damn, so much for my easy comparisons, I was hoping for a nice, relaxed, across the board "Black/White/Asian/Other". Like, for example Brazil:
The only relatively isolated minority ethnic groups in Brazil are various non-assimilated indigenous tribes, comprising less than 1% of the population, who live in officially delimited reservations and either avoid contact with other peoples, or constitute separate social and political communities.
The rest of the population can be considered a single "Brazilian" ethnic group, with highly varied racial types and backgrounds, but without clear ethnic sub-divisions. By physical type, a recent survey gives 53% "white", 38% "mixed", 6% "black", 1% "other".
See, easily categorised percentages. Well, sort of.
Anyway, this has bugger all to do with the original article I linked to, I was just curious about the claim of being the most ethnically and religiously heterogeneous republic in the world. I think on ethnicity you could make an argument for Brazil, on religion though I think the US probably has it.
On and for curiosity's sake again:
South Africa:
black 79.5%, white 9.2%, Coloured 8.9%, Asian 2.5% (2006 est.)
And just for comparison's sake:
Percentage of population in prison in those countries:
US: 737 persons imprisoned per 100,000 population (2005)
UK: 135 per 100,000 population (my maths hopefully are right here - England is 139, the rest are varying and I've done the addition/division thing of all UK territories listed.)
Australia: 116 per 100,000 (seems high).
South Africa: 404 per 100,000
Brazil: 133 per 100,000
Incidentally the highest percentage of population currently known to be imprisoned is apparently in Rwanda (1132 per 100,000), ethnic breakdown pretty limited. And of course China and various other places don't list all their prisons or prisoners.
Yes, I know this is going nowhere, I was just interested. And waiting for my stats to finish running. But I really don't think the level of ethnic diversity is the sole reason for the current high level of imprisonment by the US of its population.
