Map of percentage of people with European* ancestry, largely... - October 7, 2022 at 03:20PM

Map of percentage of people with European* ancestry, largely based in
Ethnic self identification in censuses and in a broad ethnoreligious
approach.

The
very concept of “European peoples” is contested. “Europe” itself is not
a geographical accurate term, given the fact that the borders between
Europe and (specially) Asia are historical, cultural and political more
than physical. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundaries_between_continents#Europe_and_Asia

In the latest version of this map I’m considering all ethnic
groups with an European homeland since at least several centuries as
“Europeans”. So all North Caucasus peoples, Bosniaks, Albanians are
considered Europeans.

Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Cyprus and Israel are
shaded in turquoise due to lack of consensus in their “Europeanness”.

Some groups in the Ural/Volga border as the Nenets and the
Kalmyk peoples are not considered Europeans due to their strong
historical ties to Siberia and Mongolia, but this is debatable.

West Afroasian Christians as Egyptian Copts and Arab Christians are not considered European.

Mixed race people: different criteria so explanations are given.
Mixed race people are often counted separately in many censuses and
follow the one drop rule (one drop of non European blood means that
people is out of the European ancestry group and into the Mixed ancestry
or even African/Asian group). Whenever this is the case, I just follow
the census country criterion. For example, the USA follow the one-drop
rule, so African-Americans with 20% African ancestry and 80% European
would count as 0% European ancestry in this map). Given the fact
“Mestizo” and “Colored” are separate categories in many censuses (in
Latin America or South Africa) from “White” or “European”, I’m
considering those 0% European ancestry despite the fact those people
probably have European ancestry, because of lack of genetic data (the
answer to questions like “are Mestizos 10% European or 90%?” is really
hard to find in many countries, so I’m being conservative). Other issue
can be found in how people identify themselves in Latin American and
other mixed-race countries: a 80% Amerindian 20% European mixed race
population self identified as “White”, “Caucasoid” or “European” is
counted as 100% European ancestry in this map. So numbers are sometimes inflated, and sometimes reduced to some point.
Obviously no massive DNA analysis are performed in censuses so we rely
on the information they gather based in self identification and this map
has to be read in that way. Anyway, I’m not using the one-drop rule,
but the genetic admixture rule, in some cases when the census is not
explicit about this and I have to take a decission AND I happen to have
genetic precise data: for example, mixed Asian-European groups in
Russia (like Mari people) are counted as (for example) 30 to 70%
European ancestry following genetic studies on Mongoloid admixture
(which I managed to find) in every Eurasian ethnic group . Also check
the sources for more information, a lot of data is gathered from the
European Diaspora article so I’m not deeply following every link, but
just assuming that data is acceptable and accurate in a broad sense. Ask
the original editors of this article for further information. Anyway,
numbers and percentages probably don’t change so much after all these
calculus, so the map is correct in general (maybe take a +-10% error in Eurasia and +-20/30% in Latin America,
where ancestries are much more mixed). In Chile, lack of self
identification ancestry in censuses led me to search genetic data as
well.

This is NOT a map of the White race, just an “European ancestry”
map. Thats the reason North African, Middle Eastern and Indo-Iranian
peoples majority territories are not shaded. Anyway, some countries
don’t specify the origin of “White people” in their censuses so I’m
taking “Caucasian” and “White” self identified people in censuses mostly
in countries in the Americas as having “European ancestry”, so Lebanese
ancestry people in Colombia or Morocco ancestry people in the USA are
counted as “European ancestry” peoples in this map because of lack of
data. Despite of that, numbers and percentages wouldn’t be so different
considering those details and I encourage everyone who is reading this
to do the math and realize these facts.

To sum it up all, generally conservative criteria are taken: the
geographical criterion (Middle Eastern Christians and Indo-Iranians are
not considered European because their historical roots are in zones of
the Asian continent) or the census one-drop-rule criterion (Mixed race
peoples with lack of genetic data are not considered European). With
other and broader criteria, the map would be completely different and it
could be redrawn.

Kurds, Iranians and Kazakhs are not considered here Europeans as ethnic groups that are related or belong to Asian territories.

Source base map: File:Blank_Map_World_Secondary_Political_Divisions.svg

My original sources were a mixture between data in the article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_diaspora
) where the map is, and in countries where the information is detailed
enough are taking numbers from censuses from the Russian Wikipedia for
all the provinces, oblasts, autonomous regions, etc(see below), censuses
from the USA 2010 (numbers listed in https://www.census.gov\/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-05.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_American ), Australian 2011 census http://www.abs.gov.au/census , and Canada (numbers listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada ), and taking into account the number of non-European migrants in the countries of the EU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Europe .

Kazakhstan: Each province was searched, I went to the russian
article where ethnic compositions are given (in Russian). For example,
the Akmola region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Kazakhstan https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C Same with the rest (take all the provinces, look for them in the Russian wikipedia, etc): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%8E%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C I continued with the rest. Russia: http://pop-stat.mashke.org/russia-ethnic2002.htm Brazil: File:People_of_European_Ancestry_in_Brazil.png

Bosnia-Herzegovina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina

Kosovo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Kosovo#Religion

Albania:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Albania

Venezuela:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_of_European_descent#White_Venezuelan_population_by_Venezuelan_state

Colombia:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etnograf%C3%ADa_de_Colombia#Blancos

This numbers are for “blancos+mestizos”, as Brazil and Venezuela
separate White and Mixed peoples in separate categories, I do the same
here correcting this numbers using a 0,43 coefficient according to “The
2018 census reported that the “non-ethnic population”, consisting of
whites and mestizos (those of mixed white European and Amerindian
ancestry, including almost all of the urban business and political
elite), constituted 86 percent of the national population. The 87
percent figure is subdivided into 47 percent mestizo and 40 percent
white “ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_Colombia#cite_note-3

Mexico:
Censo de 1921 http://www.inegi.org.mx/prod_Serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/censos/poblacion/1921/EUM/RCGH21I.pdf

Quite old but good approximation, mixed race people is excluded
as in Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia due to lack of genetic data.
Modern Mexican censuses do not provide ancestry data.

Bolivia:
http://bolivia.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/Censo_Poblacion_1900_T2.pdf

Old Census but the last one including ethnic selfidentification, probably numbers are not so different today.

Cuba:
http://www.one.cu/publicaciones/cepde/cpv2012/20131107resumenadelantado/tablas/4.pdf

Peru:
http://espejodelperu.com.pe/Poblacion-del-Peru/index.htm