What percentage of the worlds population is Caucasian?
With the turn away from racial theory in the late 20th century, the term “Caucasian” as a racial classification fell into disuse in Europe. Consequently, in the United Kingdom, the term “Caucasian” is more likely than in the United States to describe people from the Caucasus, although it may still be used as a racial classification. Sarah A Tishkoff and Kenneth K Kidd state, “Despite disagreement among anthropologists, this classification remains in use by many researchers, as well as lay people.” According to Leonard Lieberman, Rodney C. Kirk, and Alice Littlefield, the concept of race has all but been completely rejected by modern mainstream anthropology. In 2003, United States National Library of Medicine stopped using the term Caucasian race in favor of the term “European”.In the United States, “Caucasian” has been mainly a distinction based on skin color with “white” or light complexion. Caucasians are also distinguished as a people who are, or at least at one point were, “from Eu
It depends on how much of India you consider Caucasian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_migration What percentage of Latin America you consider Caucasian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Latin_American And what percentage of the Middle East you consider Caucasian Considering China has a larger population that all of the US, Europe, Latin America and Russia combined http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbrank.pl and that there are many Asians in Latin America, North America, Europe and Australia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese I would say that Caucasian people make up about 35% of the world’s population (rough guess). However, given the self-loathing/guilt white people have and their consequent rush to do whatever they can to give away what they have so as not to seem racist, I would say that that figure is going to drop dramatically in the next 50 years. BTW, the atrocities of the past are HORRIBLE but Mao (China) killed more people during his great leap forward
