Lower literacy rates are found mostly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The world's largest ethnic group is Han Chinese, constituting over 19% of the global population in 2011. In terms of the largest number of native speakers, Mandarin is the world's most spoken language.
With a population that hovers around 2,000, the Toto are today considered one of the world's smallest ethnic groups, and, like their fellow Indigenous peoples from the Amazon to Australia, are experiencing the consequences of extractive industries.
The term population distribution refers to how people are distributed across the earth's surface. Approximately 10% of the world's land area is home to 90% of the world's population. The world's ten most populous countries account for roughly 60% of the global population. Six of these ten countries are in Asia.
OMB requires five minimum categories (White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander) for race. OMB permits the Census Bureau to also use a sixth category - Some Other Race. Respondents may report more than one race.
The most recent United States census officially recognized seven racial categories (White, Black, Latino, Asian, Native American/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian), as well as people of two or more races.
China population is equivalent to 17.72% of the total world population. China ranks number 2 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population. The population density in China is 152 per Km2 (393 people per mi2). The median age in China is 39.0 years.
Africa Population (LIVE)
Africa population is equivalent to 17.89% of the total world population. Africa ranks number among regions of the world (roughly equivalent to "continents"), ordered by population.
In 2022, China remains the country with the largest population in the world, with more than 1.43 billion people. India has the second largest population in the world, with just above 1.4 billion inhabitants.
The Marathon Des Sables, dubbed the 'toughest footrace on earth', is a 6 day long ultra marathon located in the Moroccan Sahara Desert.
The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S.
China is the second most populous country in Asia as well as the second most populous country in the world, with a population of 1,425,671,352. 1,411,750,000 (2022 est.) 6.77 births per 1,000 (2022 est.)
A white person is defined as a person who has European ancestry. In Australia, about 90.2 percent of the nation's population is white. The following is a breakdown of some of the major ethnic groups that fall under this category: To unlock this lesson you must be a Study.com Member.
White is the most common race in the United States. It usually refers to people from Europe or the Middle East (such as Germany, England, and Syria) Black or African-American refers to people from most parts of Africa. Asian refers to people from countries in Asia (such as China, Japan, South Asia, or the Philippines).
Government data about the UK's different ethnic groups. 82% of people in England and Wales are white, and 18% belong to a black, Asian, mixed or other ethnic group (2021 Census data).
Australia population is equivalent to 0.33% of the total world population. Australia ranks number 55 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.
In most of colonial Africa, Europeans accounted for under 1% of the population, except for the colonies in Northern and Southern Africa, which had the highest proportion of European colonists.
The white population in South Africa mostly originates from Dutch and British origin. There are around 4.6 million white people, comprising 7.9% of the country. South Africa is also an African country with the largest percentage (and number as well) of the white population.
Population, female (% of total population) in China was reported at 48.97 % in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources.
The top 10 most populous countries are: China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, and Mexico. Data is from World Population Review (2022).
Population in China 2012-2022, by gender
In 2022, there were around 722 million male inhabitants and 690 million female inhabitants living in China, amounting to around 1.41 billion people in total.
Using gene frequency data for 62 protein loci and 23 blood group loci, we studied the genetic relationship of the three major races of man, Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid. Genetic distance data indicate that Caucasoid and Mongoloid are somewhat closer to each other than to Negroid.
OMB requires five minimum categories: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
The Caucasian race was historically regarded as a biological taxon which, depending on which of the historical race classifications was being used, usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa.