How many nationalities are there in the world? What are they?

There are 7.57 billion residents in the world, belonging to more than 2, ethnic groups.

Indo-European language family: including 1 language families such as Germanic, Slavic, Roman, Kaelte, Iranian, Indian, etc., distributed all over the world, and spoken by about 15 nationalities, accounting for 45.5% of the world's population.

Sino-Tibetan language family: the number of speakers ranks second, including Han, Tibetan-Burmese, Zhuang-Dong, Miao-Yao and other language families, which are distributed in China and Southeast Asia.

Semitic language family: All ethnic groups are mainly distributed in West Asia and North Africa.

Niger-Kordofan language family: All ethnic groups are mainly distributed in sub-Saharan Africa.

Caucasian language family: all ethnic groups are distributed in the Caucasus.

Dravidian family: all ethnic groups are distributed in southern India.

Urals: All ethnic groups are scattered from Scandinavia to the Urals.

Altaic language family: All ethnic groups are distributed in a wide area from Northeast Asia to Asia Minor.

south Asian language family: all ethnic groups are distributed in Indochina peninsula.

austronesian family: All ethnic groups are mainly distributed in Pacific island countries.

Nile-Sahara language family: all ethnic groups are distributed in Sudan.

khoisan language family: all ethnic groups are distributed in southwest Africa.

archaea: all ethnic groups are distributed in northeast Asia. Eskimo-Aleutian languages are distributed in the Arctic Circle of Northeast Asia and North America. Indian languages are distributed in the American continent. Australian languages are distributed in Australia.

Papua languages: All ethnic groups are distributed in Irian Island.

Extended information:

Ethnic society, economy and culture are at different stages of development. Among them, there are ethnic groups with a population of more than 1 million and ethnic groups with less than 1, people. The Han nationality in China is the most populous nation in the world, while the Tasadai nationality in Mindanao is the least, with a population of only 24.

According to statistics in 1978, there are seven ethnic groups with a population of over 1 million in the world, namely, Han, Hindustan, Bengali, Russian, Brazilian and Japanese.

There are 6 ethnic groups with a population of over 1 million, including Bihar, Punjabi, Javanese, Koreans, Tamils, Egyptian Arabs, Hausa, Germans, Italians, English, French, Mexicans, Colombians and so on. There are more than 2 ethnic groups with a population of over one million.

The total population of these ethnic groups exceeds 96% of the global population, while the remaining population of less than 4% includes more than 1,8 ethnic groups. In the five continents of the world, the distribution of ethnic populations is extremely unbalanced, with Asia accounting for about 58% of the global population, Africa accounting for 1.5%, America accounting for 14%, Europe accounting for 17% and Oceania accounting for .5%.

according to the statistics of nationalities in the world, with the continuous growth of global population, the total number of nationalities shows a downward trend. Under the situation that ethnic and cultural integration is accelerating, the number of ethnic minorities is gradually decreasing; Several small ethnic groups have merged into some big ethnic groups, and the number of big ethnic groups is increasing day by day.

Asian ethnic groups

There are more than 1, ethnic groups living in Asia. They have their own characteristics in race, language, religion, economy and cultural life, and are at different stages of social and historical development. As far as race is concerned, Asian ethnic groups are mostly Mongolian, accounting for 59% of the Asian population and distributed in East Asia and Southeast Asia. The next ethnic group is Europa, accounting for 29% of the Asian population, mainly distributed in West Asia and India-Pakistan subcontinent.

European ethnic groups

There are more than 16 ethnic groups in Europe, including more than 1 in the Soviet Union. Among the ethnic groups in Europe, there are 18 with a population of tens of millions, accounting for about 84.5% of the European population. The Germanic, Roman and Slavic languages of Indo-European languages account for more than 9% of the European nations. Most of the rest belong to Kaelte, Greek, Leto-Lithuanian, Albanian and Armenian languages of this language family.

African nations

Africa accounts for about one-fifth of the global land area, but its population is only over 8 million, accounting for about one-eighth of the world population. Among them, Negro people account for about two-thirds of Africa's population, mostly distributed in the Sahara desert and south of the Ethiopian plateau. Residents belonging to Europa and mixed race mainly live in North Africa, the Ethiopian Plateau and the Somali Peninsula. Residents in the eastern part of Madagascar are of Mongolian descent.

American ethnic groups

Except for Indian ethnic groups, most American ethnic groups were formed in modern times. Since the end of the 15th century, European immigrants have moved in one after another, which has greatly changed the ethnic composition of America. Besides the Indians belonging to the Mongolian race, there are also European immigrants belonging to the Europa race, descendants of African "slaves" belonging to the Negro race, and a mixed ethnic group formed by intermarriage of different races.

The residents living in Oceania today are mainly immigrants from Europe, America and Asia and their descendants, accounting for about the population of this region. The indigenous peoples in Oceania are mostly Australian and various mixed types.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-World Nationalities