In this article we will present the 15 countries with largest white population outside of Europe. Click to skip ahead and see the top 5 countries with the largest white population outside of Europe.
How else to begin a topic about peoples’ differences, but with the issue of race? Many people still refer to different skin color as a different race, and the issue of race is becoming more and more delicate. But what does science say about race? Is it a real thing? Generally speaking, all people of the belong to one species, Homo Sapiens, but there are obvious differences in our appearance throughout the world. These differences influenced people of the 19th century and earlier to give legitimacy to slavery and the dominance of white people.
Luckily, the world has (at least officially) grown out of these ideas, and evolution and the origin of the human species was researched and explained objectively and regardless of any political or ideological influence lately. So, where did white people come from? Well, as all other members of our species, they came from Africa. It is a long story of our journey throughout our world, but if you are interested in broadening your knowledge in this issue, you can check out this National Geographic’s article on the evolution of our species – and, the origin of white and other populations.
Even though we all came out of Africa, you will see that almost no African countries on today’s list of the countries with the largest white population outside Europe. However, you can check out our research on 13 African Countries with the Largest White Population in 2018.
Now, what are white people and where are they now? We have used people of European origin to define the term “white” in our article today (that’s why we have excluded Europe in research). On that matter, the countries with the highest white people percentage certainly belong to Europe. More precisely, countries like Iceland, Poland or Finland would take the top places. And on the matter what percentage of the population is white, that could be just a little bit over 11%, if we include Europeans and the people from our today’s list into account. That means that the white population in the world is less than a billion, which is a lot less figure compared to the population of China or India, which count more than a billion citizens each.
In search for countries with the largest white population outside Europe, we went through the data primarily from Infoplease and Nationalists, or CIA, and later on checked up the information on particular countries, as you will see further down on the list. In our research we have excluded countries such as Israel or Costa Rica, ex USSSR countries such as Kazakhstan or Kirgizstan, since there was no clear information on precisely white people, i.e. the ones of European origin. Finally, we have ranked the countries primarily by the number of the people rather than their percentage.
Let’s now go through the countries outside of Europe that have the largest white populations:
15. Dominican Republic
In the Dominican Republic, around 1.6 million people, or 16% are of European origin. It is not a surprising fact, since Columbus reached the island during his second voyage, and white people remained here ever since. It is also argued that Columbus’ remains are buried in the Dominican Republic.
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14. Uruguay
With 87% of the country’s population being white (or 2.94 million people), Uruguay certainly deserves an important place among the countries with the largest white population outside of Europe.
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13. New Zealand
In the land of sheep and hobbits, there is now around 3.5 million people of European origin, which is 79% of the country of New Zealand. Among other ethnic populations in the county Maori are the largest, and they were in fact the aboriginal population in New Zealand.
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12. Cuba
In a multi-ethnic country such as Cuba around 4 million people, or 37% of the country’s population is white. These people mainly consist of the emigrants which came from Spain in 18th and 19th centuries.
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11. Peru
As the majority of Peru’s population is mestizo (the population of mixed white, mostly Spanish and indigenous population ancestry), the percentage of solely white people is around 15%, or 4.6 million.
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10. South Africa
The white population in South Africa mostly originates from Dutch and British origin. There are around 4.6 million white people, comprising 7.9% of the country. South Africa is also an African country with the largest percentage (and number as well) of the white population.
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9. Colombia
As in all South American countries colonized by Spanish or Portuguese, Colombia still has a great number of white population. In this case, it is a figure of 9.5 million people, which is 20% of the country’s population.
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8. Mexico
It is quite hard to evaluate Mexico’s ethnic composition. Many people consider themselves white, although they have indigenous ancestry as well. Therefore, we took the lowest rate of 9% or 10 million white people.
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7. Venezuela
Almost half of Venezuela’s population is white, 43% or 13.1 million people. However, this figure is unreliable, since it was obtained from how the people identified themselves. So, it is possible that this figure should be lower, but nevertheless Venezuela surely belongs to the top countries with a large percentage of the white population.
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6. Chile
As much as 88% of Chile’s population, or 15.6 million people is white. The ancestry of the most of them comes from the Spanish conquerors from the 16th century onwards.
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Click to see the top 5 countries with the largest white population outside of Europe.
Disclosure: 15 Countries with the Largest White Population outside of Europe is originally published at Insider Monkey.
