This chart shows Ethnic,Linguistic,Religious - Fractionalization by Country.
Fractionalization measures are computing the probability that two randomly drawn individuals are not from the same group .
This list is based on the analysis of Alesina and others,they develop fractionalization scores based on ethnicity, religious and linguistic data directly from the Encyclopædia Britannica lists. This list is biased by how the Britannica chooses to list ethnic groups, but it does not make a judgement call on which identities are more salient than others.
Ethnic fractionalization deals with the number, sizes, socioeconomic distribution, and geographical location of distinct cultural groups, usually in a state or some otherwise delineated territory. The specific cultural features might refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and tradition, history, or another distinctive criterion, alone or in combination. Frequently these features are used for social exclusion and the monopolization of power.
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