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

(English is not my native language so forgive my mistakes)

  • 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.
  • Turkey, Azerbaijan are non-europeans cultures (they are definitely not European descent).
  • Datas about California, USA and Washington, USA were corrected because we must count all white population (white alone), not only non-hispanic white.
  • 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

Ecuador: http://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/resultados/

Chile: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872014000300001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en

Turkey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Turkey

Azerbaijan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_Azerbaijan

Argentina:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317552097_Admixture_in_Argentina?_iepl%5BviewId%5D=7mgiM9aS1rLkhmJH6Fx6jHsg&_iepl%5BprofilePublicationItemVariant%5D=default&_iepl%5Bcontexts%5D%5B0%5D=prfpi&_iepl%5BtargetEntityId%5D=PB%3A317552097&_iepl%5BinteractionType%5D=publicationTitle
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current01:02, 3 May 2024Thumbnail for version as of 01:02, 3 May 2024512 × 301 (483 KB)Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr.The Philippines was not colored before in previous versions while according to this study: (https://web.archive.org/web/20160704204736/https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/reference-populations-next-gen/) about 5% of the Philippine population descend from Southern Europeans (Spanish) so I updated the map according to the study's findings.
14:26, 8 December 2023Thumbnail for version as of 14:26, 8 December 2023853 × 546 (4.6 MB)IktsokhClearing the map
21:43, 7 December 2023Thumbnail for version as of 21:43, 7 December 2023853 × 546 (4.6 MB)IktsokhCyprus
08:38, 5 December 2023Thumbnail for version as of 08:38, 5 December 2023853 × 546 (4.75 MB)Orange-Puppy-2221? - Armenia is 1000000% more disputed than Turkey or Cyprus incase of Europeanness
12:11, 4 December 2023Thumbnail for version as of 12:11, 4 December 2023853 × 546 (4.44 MB)Ho Pak-chuenReverted to version as of 17:15, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
11:44, 28 November 2023Thumbnail for version as of 11:44, 28 November 2023853 × 546 (4.75 MB)Orange-Puppy-2221This is racism because if it's the case of "dispute," Armenia's Europeanness is at least as disputed as Turkey
17:15, 17 November 2023Thumbnail for version as of 17:15, 17 November 2023853 × 546 (4.44 MB)Ho Pak-chuenReverted to version as of 20:02, 21 October 2023 (UTC) This is not racism, Armenians are Indo-Europeans, and Armenians also live in the Caucasus region, the dividing line between Europe and Asia. But the Turks came from Central Asia and only occupied small marginal pieces of land in Europe.
19:58, 25 October 2023Thumbnail for version as of 19:58, 25 October 2023853 × 546 (4.75 MB)Orange-Puppy-2221Turkey, Azerbaijan and Cyprus (is also a partly Turkic country) being there but Armenia not being there is pure racism at this point and Israel is almost as European as Armenia in terms of historical bonds. Disputed = Turkey & Caucasus & Cyprus & Israel is the best. Reverting to an older version.
20:02, 21 October 2023Thumbnail for version as of 20:02, 21 October 2023853 × 546 (4.44 MB)AunyuReverted to version as of 21:52, 6 September 2023 (UTC) if you have a problem with Cyprus, fix it. Don’t mess up other areas just to stick it to someone, discuss and fix the specific issue you have
18:06, 13 September 2023Thumbnail for version as of 18:06, 13 September 2023853 × 546 (4.75 MB)MavrejuReverted to version as of 02:47, 29 March 2023 (UTC) If Cyprus is disputed, Armenia and Georgia (whole caucasus) must be disputed too.
21:52, 6 September 2023Thumbnail for version as of 21:52, 6 September 2023853 × 546 (4.44 MB)Triggerhippie4Reverted to version as of 00:17, 27 August 2023 (UTC) Their origin is still mostly Middle Eastern, not 100% European as your unsourced version suggest
21:46, 2 September 2023Thumbnail for version as of 21:46, 2 September 2023853 × 546 (4.44 MB)Ho Pak-chuenReverted to version as of 03:26, 29 March 2023 (UTC) Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews come from Central Europe and Spain respectively. These two categories account for more than half of Israel’s population today.
00:17, 27 August 2023Thumbnail for version as of 00:17, 27 August 2023853 × 546 (4.44 MB)Triggerhippie4fixing ridiculous unsourced data for Israel
03:26, 29 March 2023Thumbnail for version as of 03:26, 29 March 2023853 × 546 (4.44 MB)Johnwatson1973Reverted to version as of 03:24, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
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03:24, 29 March 2023Thumbnail for version as of 03:24, 29 March 2023853 × 546 (4.44 MB)Johnwatson1973Regional-specific amendments have been made
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02:40, 29 March 2023Thumbnail for version as of 02:40, 29 March 2023853 × 546 (4.61 MB)Johnwatson1973Reverted to version as of 21:15, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
02:09, 29 March 2023Thumbnail for version as of 02:09, 29 March 2023853 × 546 (5.32 MB)Artemstalin1984Reverted to version as of 00:11, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
14:52, 2 January 2023Thumbnail for version as of 14:52, 2 January 2023853 × 546 (4.75 MB)IktsokhThe island of Cyprus is drawn incorrectly on the map, take a closer look.
05:51, 13 December 2022Thumbnail for version as of 05:51, 13 December 2022853 × 546 (4.6 MB)FbkpoReverted to version as of 16:43, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
13:09, 25 September 2022Thumbnail for version as of 13:09, 25 September 2022853 × 546 (4.75 MB)Рагин1987Removed Kyrgyzstan (geographically outside of Europe, unlike Kazakhstan)
09:37, 22 September 2022Thumbnail for version as of 09:37, 22 September 2022853 × 546 (4.73 MB)Рагин1987Correction of Cyprus (the whole island is drawn), geographically located entirely in Asia, but politically, historically and culturally a European country (like Armenia)
06:49, 2 August 2021Thumbnail for version as of 06:49, 2 August 2021853 × 546 (4.61 MB)NagihiunReverted to version as of 18:47, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
16:43, 2 July 2017Thumbnail for version as of 16:43, 2 July 2017853 × 546 (4.6 MB)NagihuinArgentina detailed, source given in description.
18:47, 31 December 2016Thumbnail for version as of 18:47, 31 December 2016853 × 546 (4.61 MB)NagihuinReverted due to lack of source for the Argentinian subnational entities data.
18:22, 31 December 2016Thumbnail for version as of 18:22, 31 December 2016853 × 546 (4.61 MB)NagihuinArgentina detailed.
21:15, 15 October 2016Thumbnail for version as of 21:15, 15 October 2016853 × 546 (4.61 MB)NagihuinRedrawn abandoning the dual ethnoreligious/geographical criteria and integrating all the information in a single map.
00:11, 16 January 2016Thumbnail for version as of 00:11, 16 January 2016853 × 546 (5.32 MB)NagihuinBolivia detailed
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10:02, 22 August 2015Thumbnail for version as of 10:02, 22 August 2015853 × 546 (5.32 MB)NagihuinColombia, Venezuela detailed. Added a redrawn version of Eurasian borderlands in the corner with a different approach.
07:35, 21 August 2015Thumbnail for version as of 07:35, 21 August 2015853 × 546 (4.63 MB)NagihuinIsrael, Golan Heights, West Bank, Falkland and South Atlantic/Indian Ocean islands corrected.
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