Countries With the Lowest Ethnic Diversity

Every country with a figure for ethnic diversity, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Japan (0.019), Korea, Dem. People's Rep. (0.02) and Bangladesh (0.025). The middle country of the 153 has 0.453.

What this measures

Ethnic fractionalization index, in index, 0 to 1. Source: Lenka Drazanova. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

The chance that two people picked at random in a country belong to different ethnic groups, from 0 (everyone in one group) to close to 1 (many small groups). It measures how mixed a country is, not which groups live there. The groups are those each country's own sources use, so where the lines are drawn differs from country to country. Yearly from 1945 to 2013, so the latest value is from 2013. No "better" direction is set.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2013–2013. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on ethnic diversity

• Countries With the Highest Ethnic Diversity
• Ethnic diversity by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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• Countries With the Lowest Indigenous American Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest East Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest South Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Middle Eastern Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Median Ages
• Countries With the Lowest Age at Childbearing

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.