About: Are there more black or white people in the world

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The answer depends on the definition of both "white" and "black". As almost no-one actually agrees on which is which, this question becomes almost impossible to answer. If "white" is taken to mean "people of western European descent" and "black" to mean "people of African descent" then blacks considerably outnumber whites - 1.2 billion to around 600 million. But the above calculation effectively restricts itself to North America, Europe and Africa. The world is obviously much larger than that. So ultimately this question actually creates more confusion than it solves.

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rdfs:label	Are there more black or white people in the world
rdfs:comment	The answer depends on the definition of both "white" and "black". As almost no-one actually agrees on which is which, this question becomes almost impossible to answer. If "white" is taken to mean "people of western European descent" and "black" to mean "people of African descent" then blacks considerably outnumber whites - 1.2 billion to around 600 million. But the above calculation effectively restricts itself to North America, Europe and Africa. The world is obviously much larger than that. So ultimately this question actually creates more confusion than it solves.
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abstract	The answer depends on the definition of both "white" and "black". As almost no-one actually agrees on which is which, this question becomes almost impossible to answer. If "white" is taken to mean "people of western European descent" and "black" to mean "people of African descent" then blacks considerably outnumber whites - 1.2 billion to around 600 million. But the above calculation effectively restricts itself to North America, Europe and Africa. The world is obviously much larger than that. Confusing the matter considerably are the 500 million inhabitants of Latin America, who are routinely of mixed African, European and Indigenous heritage and hence are very hard to classify All of the above fails to account for the enormous population of Asia and its multiple ethnic groups. Are Indians, Arabs and the Chinese (to name but a handful) black or white? Indians - being among the most dark-skinned of all Asian groups - might be considered black. However they are actually ethnically Caucasian, as they are descended from the Caucus region just like Europeans. So ultimately this question actually creates more confusion than it solves.

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