Monoethnicity

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Monoethnicity is the existence of a single ethnic group in a given region or country. It is the opposite of polyethnicity.

An example of a largely monoethnic country is Japan. It is a common belief in Japan that the entire country is monoethnic, but a few ethnic minorities live in Japan (e.g. Koreans, Ainus, and Ryukyuans).[1] They represent around 2.3% of the whole population.[2]

South Korea is another monoethnic country. There are small immigrant populations that exist in South Korea, where they account for around 5.2% of the South Korean population. These include around 900,000 Chinese immigrants, many of whom are of Korean descent.[3]

Most African countries have what would be considered a mono-racial society, but it is common to find dozens of ethnic groups within the same country.

The Yugoslav Wars are noted as having made Yugoslavia's successor states "de facto and de jure monoethnic nation-states",[4] with Bosnia and Herzegovina further diving itself into mono-ethnic enclaves.[5]

Because not all countries collect data on ethnicity, and the collection of data usually relies on self-reporting, it can be difficult to discern how monoethnic a country is.

Monoethnic countries with more than 85% homogenity

Sovereign states

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Rank Country Population Dominant group % Notes Ref
1 North Korea 26,298,666 Korean 99.998% [6]
2 Egypt 111,247,248 Egyptians 99.7% [7]
3 Lesotho 2,227,548 Basotho 99.7% [8]
4 Tunisia 12,048,847 Arab-Amazigh 98% [9]
5 Bangladesh 168,697,184 Bengali 99% [10]
6 Morocco 37,387,585 Arab-Amazigh 99% Does not include data from Western Sahara [11]
7 Vanuatu 318,007 Ni-Vanuatu 99% [12]
8 Armenia 2,976,765 Armenian 98.1% [13]
9 Albania 3,107,100 Albanian 98% [14]
10 Japan 123,201,945 Japanese 97.5% [15]
11 Poland 38,746,310 Polish 96.9% This number represents the percentage of people who indicated Polish as their primary ethnicity [16]
12 Tonga 104,889 Tongan 96.5% [17]
13 Kiribati 116,545 I-Kiribati 95.78% [18]
14 Marshall Islands 82,011 Marshallese 95.6% [19]
15 Cambodia 17,063,669 Khmer 95.4% [20]
16 Solomon Islands 726,799 Melanesian 95.4% [21]
17 Lebanon 5,364,482 Arabs 97% [22]
18 Portugal 10,207,177 Portuguese 95% [23]
19 South Korea 51,217,221 Koreans 94.8% These include all foreign residents, regardless of whether they are of Korean descent or not. Many foreigners in Korea are either returning migrants or their descendants, especially the Chinese-Korean population. [24]
20 Nauru 9,892 Nauruan 94.6% [25]
21 Azerbaijan 10,650,239 Azerbaijani 91.6% [26]
22 Croatia 4,150,116 Croatian 91.6% [27]
23 China 1,416,043,270 Han Chinese 91.1% [28]
24 Italy 58,947,905 Italian 91% [29]
25 Saudi Arabia 36,544,431 Arab 90% [30]
26 Finland 5,603,851 Finns 89.8% [31]
27 Romania 18,148,155 Romanian 89.3% Data represents only those who declared an ethnicity in the 2021 census [32]
28 Turkmenistan 5,744,151 Turkmen 87.6% [33]
29 Georgia 4,900,961 Georgian 86.8% [34]
30 Vietnam 105,758,975 Viet 85.3% [35]
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Unrecognized states and dependent territories

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Country Population Dominant group % Ref
Palestine 5,483,450 Palestinian 91% [36][37]
Northern Cyprus 382,836 Turkish Cypriots 99.2 % [38]
Somaliland 6,200,000 Somalis 99% [39]
Republic of China (Taiwan) 23,347,374 Han Chinese 97% [40][41]
Hong Kong 7,249,907 Han Chinese 92% [42]
Kosovo 1,586,659 Albanians 92% [43]
Greenland 55,877 Inuit 89.7% [44]
South Ossetia 53,532 Ossetians 89.9% [45]
Macau 614,458 Han Chinese 88.7% [46]
Åland 30,696 Ålanders 86.5% [47]
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