Variable: Ethnic Fractionalization in the year 2000

QoG Code: (al_ethnic2000)


Dataset: Fractionalization

Description:

Ethnic Fractionalization in the year 2000. The definition of ethnicity involves a combination of racial and linguistic characteristics. The result is a higher degree of fractionalization than the commonly used ELF-index (see el_elf60) in for example Latin America, where people of many races speak the same language.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2025-05-14
Last updated by source: 2002-10-10


Categories:

Civil Society/Population/Culture


Find this variable in:

OECD Cross-section - 2026 OECD Time-series - 2026 Standard Cross-section - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 186
Standard time-series: 186
OECD cross-section: 32
OECD time-series: 32


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This variable has information from the year 2000 to the year 2025