Monoethnicity

 ( Ethnicity ) 

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. Zainichi, Ainu people, and Ryukyuan people). They represent around 2.3% of the whole population. [1] 平成２４年末現在における外国人登録者統計について].

South Korea is another monoethnic country. There are small ethnic minorities that exist in South Korea, where they account for around 5.2% of the South Korean population. These include around 900,000 Chinese immigrants.

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", with Bosnia and Herzegovina further diving itself into mono-ethnic enclaves.

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.

1		26,298,666	Koreans	99.998%
2		111,247,248	Egyptians	99.7%
3		2,227,548	Basotho	99.7%
4		47,022,473	Arab-Amazigh	99%	Almost all Algerians are Arab in origin with only a minority being entirely Amazigh	Central Intelligence Agency (2020). 9781510758261, Simon and Schuster. . ISBN 9781510758261
5		168,697,184	Bengalis	99%
6		37,387,585	Arab-Amazigh	99%	Does not include data from Western Sahara
7		318,007	Ni-Vanuatu	99%
8		2,976,765	Armenians	98.1%
9		12,048,847	Arab-Amazigh	98%
10		3,107,100	Albanian people	98%
11		123,201,945	Japanese people	97.5%
12		38,746,310	Polish people	96.9%	This number represents the percentage of people who indicated Polish as their primary ethnicity
13		104,889	Tongan	96.5%
14		116,545	I-Kiribati	95.78%
15		82,011	Marshallese	95.6%
16		17,063,669	Khmer people	95.4%
17		726,799	Melanesians	95.4%
18		5,364,482	Arabs	97%
19		10,207,177	Portuguese	95%
20		51,217,221	Koreans	94.8%	! "출입국통계". Ministry of Justice (in Korean). Retrieved April 4, 2025.
21		9,892	Nauruan people	94.6%
22		10,650,239	Azerbaijani	91.6%
23		4,150,116	Croat	91.6%
24		1,416,043,270	Han Chinese	91.1%
25		58,947,905	Italians	91%	! "Indicatori demografici, anno 2020" (PDF). target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
26		36,544,431	Arab	90%
27		5,603,851	Finns	89.8%	!
28		18,148,155	Romanian people	89.3%	Data represents only those who declared an ethnicity in the 2021 census
29		5,744,151	Turkmen people	87.6%
30		4,900,961	Georgian people	86.8%
31		105,758,975	Viet	85.3%

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