ASIA FACT FILE.(Statistical Data Included) From: Business Asia | Date: December 14, 1998 | COPYRIGHT 1998 First Charlton Communications Pty Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Blood brothers

This edition's Fact File examines the ethnic make-up of nations in the Asia-Pacific region.

 
AUSTRALIA 
 
Caucasian                       95% 
Asian                            4% 
Aboriginal & other               1% 
 
CHINA 
 
Han Chinese                   91.9% 
Zhuan, Uygur, Hui, Yi,         8.1% 
Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, 
Mongol, Korean & others 
 
HONG KONG 
 
Chinese                         95% 
Other                            5% 
 
INDIA 
 
Indo-Aryan                      72% 
Dravidian                       25% 
Mongoloid & other                3% 
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