Editing Demographics of Mauritius (section)

==Ethnic groups==
[[Mauritians of Indian origin|Indo-Mauritians]] are roughly forty-six percent of the population. The Indo-Mauritian population consists of [[Hindus|Hindu]], [[Muslims|Muslim]], and [[Christians|Christian]] descendants of Indian [[Laborer|laborers]].

[[Mauritian Creoles]] (descendants of [[Africans]]) are thirty-eight percent of the population. Today, a significant proportion of Creoles are of African descent, with varying amounts of French and Indian [[Ancestor|ancestry]]. The Creole community also includes the country's ‘Metisse,’ or [[Multiracial people|mixed-race]] communities, which consist of people with any admixture of the island's other groups.<ref>Common Denominators: Ethnicity nationalism and the politics of compromise in Mauritius</ref> Rodrigues and [[Chagossians]] are usually incorporated within the Creole ethnic group.

Along with the French European community, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Expatriate|expatriates]] or people of British descent make up roughly three percent of the population of Mauritius.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC NEWS {{!}} Special Reports {{!}} Brits Abroad |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/africa.stm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419101859/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/africa.stm |archive-date=2020-04-19 |access-date=2020-04-19 |website=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/indian-ocean/mp-forrel-uk.htm|title=Mauritius – UK Relations}}</ref>

[[Sino-Mauritian]]s from the [[Hakka people|Hakka]] and other [[List of ethnic groups in China|Chinese sub-ethnic]]/linguistic groups make up around three percent of Mauritian society.<ref name="Eriksen 1998 82">{{harvnb|Eriksen|1998|p=82}}</ref>

While the government officially groups Mauritians into four ethnic groups – Hindus, Muslims, Chinese, and [[General Population (Mauritius)|General Population]] – the general population includes all who do not practice [[Hinduism]] or [[Islam]] and are not Chinese by ethnicity. The general population is the Christian community, which includes Creoles, mixed-race people, [[white people]], and those who have converted to Christianity. 

Small groups of foreign students from [[Europe]] or the [[Indian Ocean]] region are also present. Recent years have seen a steady flow of foreign workers into the [[textile industry]] (primarily Chinese women), the [[Construction|construction industry]] (primarily Indian workers), and [[harbor]]-related activities (primarily [[Taiwanese people|Taiwanese]] men).