What is the majority race in Ireland?

Main ethnic groups: White Irish 3,854,200 (82 per cent), Other White 446,700, Other Asian 79,300, Black Irish or Black African 57,900, Irish Travellers 31,000, Chinese 19,400, Other Black 6,800 (2016 Census).
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What is the race percentage in Ireland?

Ethnic groups: Irish 82.2%, Irish travelers 0.7%, other White 9.5%, Asian 2.1%, Black 1.4%, other 1.5%, unspecified 2.6% (2016 est.) Definition: This entry provides an ordered listing of ethnic groups starting with the largest and normally includes the percent of total population.
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What percentage of Ireland is black?

The preliminary results of the 2011 census recorded 58,697 people of Black African ethnicity and 6,381 people of any other Black background resident in the Republic out of a total population of 4,525,281, meaning that 1.42 per cent of the population self-identified as Black.
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Is there such a thing as black Irish?

As of 2016, 10,100 Irish nationals of African descent referred to themselves as "Black Irish" in the national census. The term "Black Irish" is sometimes used outside Ireland to refer to Irish people with black hair and dark eyes.
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What percentage of Dublin is Black?

The ethnic population of Dublin was 90% white - including 400,749 white Irish at 78%; 57,748 other white at 11% and 1,923 white Irish traveller -, 1% black, and 4% Asian.
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Ireland's uneven population distribution



Is Ireland a White country?

Currently, Ireland has a majority of “White Irish,” as 94.1% of the population. There are other sizable populations of Black citizens from African countries, such as Nigeria and Mauritius, plus Asian citizens with the majority from China, India, and some from Hong Kong.
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What percentage of UK is Black?

Black British citizens, with African and/or African-Caribbean ancestry, are the largest ethnic minority population, at three percent of the total population.
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What percentage of Scotland is Black?

The group (also referred to as African-Scottish, Afro-Scottish, or Black Scottish) represent approximately 0.7 percent of the total population of Scotland.
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What does Black Irish mean?

The term is commonly used to describe people of Irish origin who have dark features, black hair, a dark complexion and dark eyes. A quick review of Irish history reveals that the island was subject to a number of influxes of foreign cultures.
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What are the top 3 ethnic groups in Ireland?

Main ethnic groups: White Irish 3,854,200 (82 per cent), Other White 446,700, Other Asian 79,300, Black Irish or Black African 57,900, Irish Travellers 31,000, Chinese 19,400, Other Black 6,800 (2016 Census).
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What percentage of England is White?

As part of the White ethnic group, an estimated 78.4% of the population in England and Wales identified their ethnic group as White British in 2019, a decrease of just over 2 percentage points since the 2011 Census; Other White increased by nearly 1.5 percentage points to an estimated 5.8%.
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Are Irish people British?

The Irish, who live in the Republic of Ireland, have their own descent that has nothing to do with the British. People who live in the Republic of Ireland are Irish people. However, those who live in Northern Ireland (the UK part of the island) might say they are the Irish, but ALSO British.
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What is an ethnic minority in Ireland?

Minority Ethnic refers to a culture or ethnicity that is identifiably distinct from the ethnic majority. This may include people who have been long established in Ireland, people who are naturalised Irish citizens or British, or people who have recently arrived.
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What percentage of Ireland is ethnic minority?

Ethnic and racial minorities make up about 12 percent of the population of Ireland—a proportion that doubled in the first decade of the 21st century.
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What percent of France is Black?

In fact, it is illegal for the French government to collect information about the racial and ethnic origin of its multicultural population on the national census, though approximately 5 percent of the country is black.
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What percent of Canada is White?

Contrast that with Statistics Canada's 2011 National Household Survey, which identifies 80 per cent of us as white people (more precisely, StatsCan identified 26,587,570 of Canada's 32,852,325 non-Indigenous people as “Not a Visible Minority”).
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What is the whitest city in the UK?

That figure is highest in Wales and the North east of England - the whitest borough is Blanaeu Gwent in Wales, where 96.5% of the population is white British, followed by Copeland in Cumbria, where only 2% of the population are not white.
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Why are Irish Pale?

Researches at Penn State University identified SLC24A5 as the gene responsible for skin pigmentation, and a specific mutation within it responsible for fair skin. The mutation, A111T, is found most commonly in Ireland and all who possess it share a common genetic code descended from the same ONE person.
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Are English and Irish the same race?

Historians teach that they are mostly descended from different peoples: the Irish from the Celts, and the English from the Anglo-Saxons who invaded from northern Europe and drove the Celts to the country's western and northern fringes.
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Is Ireland racially diverse?

It is well documented that during the past two decades Ireland has become an increasingly diverse country. The 2016 Census indicates that the 535,475 non-Irish nationals living in Ireland originate from 200 different nations.
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Why do the Irish have black hair?

Some believe that survivors of the Spanish Armada who landed in Ireland were the ancestors of Ireland's black-haired population, but that's not true; black hair and brown eyes were attributes of the original Celts. Further, there was no great settlement of Spanish military in Ireland.
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