2. 5 percentage of the world's population is indigenous.
2. 5 percentage of the world's population is indigenous.
what percentage of the world's population is indigenous?
2. 5
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the category of "indigena" (indigenous) in mexico has been defined based on different criteria through history, this means that the percentage of the mexican population defined as "indigenous" varies according to the definition applied. it can be defined narrowly according to linguistic criteria including only persons that speak an indigenous language, based on this criteria approximately 5.4% of the population is indigenous. nonetheless, activists for the rights of indigenous peoples have referred to the usage of this criteria for census purposes as "statistical genocide"other surveys made by the mexican government do count as indigenous all persons who speak an indigenous language and people who do not speak indigenous languages nor live in indigenous communities but self-identifies as indigenous. according to this criteria, the national commission for the development of indigenous peoples (comisión nacional para el desarrollo de los pueblos indígenas, or cdi in spanish) and the inegi (mexico's national institute of statistics and geography), state that there are 15.7 million indigenous people in mexico of many different ethnic groups, which constitute 14.9% of the population in the country.br finally according to the latest intercensal survey carried out by the mexican government on 2015, indigenous people make up 21.5% of mexico's population. in this occasion, people who self-identified as "indigenous" and people who self-identified as "partially indigenous" were classified in the "indigenous" category altogheter.
demographics of mexico