With French support, a reorganization of the armed forces was initiated early in 1991 with the goal of reducing its numbers and making its ethnic composition reflective of the country as a whole.

The demographic situation in Georgia, like that of some other former Soviet republics ( especially Estonia and Latvia ), has been characterized by two prominent features since independence: decline in total population and significant " Georgianization " of the ethnic composition.

Many synagogues in the diaspora, even though Ashkenazi by rite and by ethnic composition, have adopted the " Sephardic " pronunciation in deference to Israeli Hebrew.

The 2009 census figures give the ethnic composition as follows ( out of a total population of 38. 6 million ):

Migration and international conflict have contributed to the present ethnic composition of the country and to the geographic distribution of its ethnic groups.

No natural frontier marks the border, and the ethnic composition, language, value systems, and traditions of the two peoples are nearly identical.

Although it must be pointed out that the ethnic composition of Manchu Banners was far from homogeneous as they included non-Manchu bondservants registered under the household of their Manchu masters.

The demographics of Russia is about the demographic features of the population of the Russian Federation, including population growth, population density, ethnic composition, education level, health, economic status and other aspects.

Therefore, the percentages mentioned above are taken from the total population that declared their ethnicity, given that the non-declared remainder is thought to have an ethnic composition similar to the declared segment.

Following figures show that the ethnic composition of the resident population has been stable over the last 30 years, while non-resident population has boomed.

It influenced the formation of colonies, the perpetuation of slavery, the transition to indentured labour, the migration of peoples, wars between 19th century sugar trade controlling nations and the ethnic composition and political structure of the new world.

As the effects of the new crop increased, so did the shift in the ethnic composition of Barbados and surrounding islands.

The partition of territories in the Balkans by the Great Powers without regard to ethnic composition led to a wave of discontent not only in Bulgaria, but also in its neighbouring countries.

As of 2010, Allegany County had a racial and ethnic population composition of 88. 16 % Non-Hispanic whites, 8. 03 % Blacks, 0. 14 % Native Americans, 0. 76 % Asians, 0. 04 % Pacific Islanders, 0. 08 % Non-Hispanics who reported some other race, 1. 47 % Non-Hispanics who reported two or more races and 1. 44 % Hispanics.

The Malay Peninsula has a long history of international trade contacts, influencing its ethnic and religious composition.

Predominantly Malays before the 18th century, the ethnic composition changed dramatically when the British introduced new industries, and imported Chinese and Indian labor.

The ethnic and racial composition of the population was 40. 1 % non-Hispanic white, 0. 7 % African American, 1. 0 % Asian, 5. 3 % Native American, 0. 3 % non-Hispanics reporting some other race, 5. 4 % reporting two or more races and 51. 9 % Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 50. 4 % Native American, 45. 8 % white, 0. 3 % Asian, 0. 2 % African American and 2. 3 % reporting two or more races.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 34. 9 % non-Hispanic white, 13. 4 % black or African American, 1. 7 % Native American, 0. 7 % Asian, 0. 1 % Pacific Islander, 0. 1 % non-Hispanic reporting some other race, 2. 7 % reprting two or more races and 49. 2 % Hispanic or Latino.

According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition of the oblast was 93. 1 % Russians ; 1. 2 % Germans ; 0. 9 % Ukrainians ; 0. 9 % Tatars ; 0. 4 % Kazakhs ; 0. 2 % Belarusians ; 0. 4 % Armenians ; 0. 3 % Azeris ; and 0. 5 % Uzbek.

According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition was:

Its ethnic composition is predominantly Russian, but Ukrainians, Tatars, and Chuvash also live in the oblast.

The 2010 Census reported the following ethnic composition:

The ethnic composition is roughly 1, 000, 000 Malay and Bumiputra, 233, 000 Chinese, 68, 500 Indians, 13, 700 others, and 68, 000 non-citizens.

In 2009, for the first time women ( and ethnic minorities and people living overseas ) were officially recognized as being descendants of Confucius.

More than 16 million people are of foreign / immigrant descent ( first and second generation, including mixed heritage and ethnic German repatriates and their descendants ).

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

Merging with the indigenous peoples, they gave rise to the Balts, a distinct Indo-European ethnic group whose descendants are the present-day Lithuanian and Latvian nations and the former Old Prussians.

According to a 2006 speech by Mitsuhiro Suganuma, a former officer of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, around 60 percent of yakuza members come from burakumin, the descendants of a feudal outcast class and approximately 30 percent of them are Japanese-born Koreans, and only 10 per cent are from non-burakumin Japanese and Chinese ethnic groups.

The predominant view is that the Korean people of today are not the ethnic descendants of these Paleolithic inhabitants.

While many of them later relocated to Sierra Leone, some of their descendants, called Fernandinos, can still be found in Malabo and the surrounding area, where they constitute a distinct ethnic group, speaking their own Afro-Portuguese pidgin dialect.

The region's ethnic diversity has been affected by repeated waves of immigrant workers from abroad: Belgians before 1910 ; Poles and Italians in the 1920s and 1930s ; Italians and Germans since 1945 and North Africans and Portuguese since 1960 ; and large cities like Lille, Calais, and Boulogne are home to sizable communities of British, Dutch, Scandinavian, Sub-Saharan African, and Latin American immigrants and their descendants.

Mauritian society includes people from many different ethnic and religious groups: Hindu, Muslim and Indo-Mauritians, Mauritian Creoles ( of African and Malagasy descent ), Buddhist and Roman Catholic Sino-Mauritians and Franco-Mauritians ( descendants of the original French colonists ).

With most widespread practice in the U. S, becoming the Reform Judaism, it doesn't require or see the Jews as direct descendants of the ethnic Jews or Biblical Israelites, but rather adherents of the Jewish faith in its Reformist version, in contrary to the Orthodox Judaism, the mainstream practice in Israel, which considers the Jews as a closed ethnoreligious community, with very strict procedures of conversion.

States offering jus sanguinis rights to ethnic citizens and their descendants include Italy, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania.

*: Article 23 of the 2004 citizenship law provides that the descendants of emigrants from Serbia, or ethnic Serbs residing abroad, may take up citizenship upon written declaration.

*: South Korean nationality law grants special status to some descendants of ethnic Koreans.

The city is home to significant numbers of all of the country's ethnic groups, although it is the primary home of the Sierra Leone Creole people ( descendants of Liberated Africans, African-Americans and West Indians ) who make up the minority of the population in the city.

Cajuns (; or les Acadiens, ) are an ethnic group mainly living in the U. S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles ( French-speakers from Acadia in what are now the Canadian Maritimes ).

Other small ethnic groups that make up the 12 % of the white population are descendants of Swiss, Italian, Syrian, Turks, Jews ( Mostly Sephardic ), and the Palestinian ( who migrated in order to escape Christian persecution from the Muslim community of the West Bank ).

Their descendants continue to live there today and are known as the Garifuna ethnic group.

Several hundred ethnic Carib descendants live in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, U. S. Virgin Islands, St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Aruba as well as in St. Vincent, the size of which is not known.

Other ethnic elements included Croats, Dulebes and the descendants of the Romanised aboriginal peoples ( Noricans ), the latter which is attestable on the basis of a number of place names.

One small ethnic group, concentrated in three villages ( Pikhtinsk, Sredne-Pikhtinsk, and Dagnik ) in Zalarinsky District is the so-called " Bug Hollanders ": descendants of Polish-speaking Lutheran farmers who had moved to Siberia from the then Russian Volhynia in 1911-1912 in search of affordable land.

: The German embassy in Argentina estimates that 660, 000 Argentines, or 1. 5 % of the total population, are descendants of Germans who emigrated directly from Germany ( It means that it doesn't includes other ethnic Germans who emigrated from Austria, Switzerland, Russia / USSR, etc .).

Due to their multiple ethnic roots and to the wide geographic expanse of the country, the slaves and their descendants did not constitute a cohesive ethnic group.

Citizenship act of the Republic of Belarus ( 2002 ) states that permanent residence term requirements may be waived for ethnic Belarusians and descendants of ethnic Belarusians born abroad.