Editing Demographics of Bolivia (section)

==Ethnic groups==
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|thumb = right
|caption = Ethno-racial groups in [[Bolivia]] (2012 census)<ref name="Censo 2012 Bolivia"/>
|label1 = No data
|value1 = 58.25
|color1 = White
|label2 = [[Indigenous peoples in Bolivia|Native]]
|value2 = 41.52
|color2 = #d62728
|label3 = [[Afro-Bolivians|Black]]
|value3 = 0.23
|color3 = #2ca02c
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{{Pie chart
|thumb = right
|caption = Ethnicity in [[Bolivia]] according to the [[The World Factbook|CIA Factbook]] (2009)<ref name="cia">{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Bolivia| access-date=25 March 2017 |year=2017}}</ref>
|label1 = [[Mestizo]] 
|value1 = 68
|color1 = #9467bd
|label2 = [[Indigenous peoples in Bolivia|Native]]
|value2 = 20
|color2 = #d62728
|label3 = [[White Bolivians|White]]
|value3 = 5
|color3 = #1f77b4
|label4 = [[Cholo]]
|value4 = 2
|color4 = #FF0080
|label5 = [[Afro-Bolivians|Black]]
|value5 = 1
|color5 = #2ca02c
|label6 = Others
|value6 = 4
|color6 = Black
}}

According to a genetic study done on Bolivians, average values of Native American, European and African ancestry are 86%, 12.5%, and 1.5%, in individuals from La Paz and 76.8%, 21.4%, and 1.8% in individuals from Chuquisaca; respectively.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255957174|doi=10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.05.012|pmid=23948324|title=Ancestry analysis reveals a predominant Native American component with moderate European admixture in Bolivians|journal=Forensic Science International: Genetics|volume=7|issue=5|pages=537–42|year=2013|last1=Heinz|first1=Tanja|last2=Álvarez-Iglesias|first2=Vanesa|last3=Pardo-Seco|first3=Jacobo|last4=Taboada-Echalar |first4=Patricia|last5=Gómez-Carballa|first5=Alberto|last6=Torres-Balanza|first6=Antonio|last7=Rocabado|first7=Omar|last8=Carracedo|first8=Ángel|last9=Vullo|first9=Carlos|last10=Salas|first10=Antonio}}</ref>
[[File:Macheteros.JPG|thumb|''Danza de los macheteros'', typical dance from [[San Ignacio de Moxos]], Bolivia]]
[[File:Flickr - archer10 (Dennis) - Bolivia-133.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Aymara people|Aymara]] man, near Lake Titicaca, Bolivia]]
The vast majority of Bolivians are [[mestizo]] (with the indigenous component higher than the European one), although the government has not included the cultural self-identification "mestizo" in the November 2012 census.<ref>{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Bolivia|access-date=8 October 2018|year=2018}}</ref> There are approximately three dozen native groups totaling approximately half of the Bolivian population – the largest proportion of indigenous people in the Americas. Exact numbers vary based on the wording of the ethnicity question and the available response choices. For example, the 2001 census did not provide the racial category "mestizo" as a response choice, resulting in a much higher proportion of respondents identifying themselves as belonging to one of the available indigenous ethnicity choices. Mestizos are distributed throughout the entire country and make up 26% of the Bolivian population, with the predominantly mestizo departments being Beni, Santa Cruz, and Tarija. Most people assume their ''mestizo'' identity while at the same time identifying themselves with one or more indigenous cultures. A 2018 estimate of racial classification put mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian) at 68%, indigenous at 20%, white at 5%, [[cholo#Bolivia|cholo]] at 2%, black at 1%, other at 4%, while 2% were unspecified; 44% attributed themselves to some indigenous group, predominantly the linguistic categories of [[Quechuas]] or [[Aymara people|Aymaras]].<ref name="cia">{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Bolivia| access-date=25 March 2017 |year=2017}}</ref> [[White Latin Americans|White Bolivians]] comprised about 14% of the population in 2006, and are usually concentrated in the largest cities: [[La Paz]], [[Santa Cruz de la Sierra]] and [[Cochabamba]], but as well in some minor cities like [[Tarija]] and [[Sucre]]. The ancestry of whites and the white ancestry of mestizos lies most notably Spain, Italy, Germany, and [[Croatia]]. In the [[Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia|Santa Cruz Department]], there are several dozen colonies of German-speaking [[Russian Mennonite|Mennonites from Russia]] totaling around 40,000 inhabitants ({{As of|2012|lc=y}}).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/world/americas/21bolivia.html |title=Bolivian Reforms Raise Anxiety on Mennonite Frontier |newspaper=The New York Times|date=21 December 2006 |access-date=14 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622233205/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/world/americas/21bolivia.html |archive-date=22 June 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Afro-Bolivian]]s, descendants of [[Atlantic slave trade|African slaves]] who arrived in the time of the [[Spanish Empire]], inhabit the [[La Paz Department, Bolivia|department of La Paz]], and are located mainly in the provinces of [[Nor Yungas Province|Nor Yungas]] and [[Sud Yungas Province|Sud Yungas]]. Slavery was abolished in Bolivia in 1831.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fogel|first1=Robert William|last2=Engerman|first2=Stanley L.|title=Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery|year=1995|publisher=W W Norton & Company Incorporated|isbn=978-0-393-31218-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/timeoncross00robe/page/33 33–34] |url=https://archive.org/details/timeoncross00robe/page/33}}</ref> There are also important communities of [[Japanese Bolivians|Japanese]] (14,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/bolivia/data.html|title=ボリビア多民族国（The Plurinational State of Bolivia）|website=外務省|access-date=8 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215233037/http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/bolivia/data.html|archive-date=15 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>) and Lebanese (12,900<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theidentitychef.com/2009/09/06/lebanese-diaspora-worldwide-geographical-distribution/ |title=Geographical Distribution of the Lebanese Diaspora |work=The Identity Chef |access-date=8 January 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630102504/http://theidentitychef.com/2009/09/06/lebanese-diaspora-worldwide-geographical-distribution/ |archive-date=30 June 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>).

[[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indigenous peoples]], also called ''"originarios"'' ("native" or "original") and less frequently, ''Amerindians'', could be categorized by geographic area, such as [[Andes|Andean]], like the [[Aymara people|Aymaras]] and [[Quechua people|Quechuas]] (who formed the ancient [[Inca Empire]]), who are concentrated in the western departments of [[La Paz Department, Bolivia|La Paz]], [[Potosí Department|Potosí]], [[Oruro Department|Oruro]], [[Cochabamba Department|Cochabamba]] and [[Chuquisaca Department|Chuquisaca]]. There also are ethnic populations in the east, composed of the [[Chiquitano]], [[Chané]], [[Guaraní people|Guaraní]] and [[Moxo people|Moxo]]s, among others, who inhabit the departments of [[Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia|Santa Cruz]], [[Beni Department|Beni]], [[Tarija Department|Tarija]] and [[Pando Department|Pando]].

There are small numbers of European citizens from Germany, France, Italy and Portugal, as well as from other countries of the Americas, as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, the United States, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico and Venezuela, among others. There are important Peruvian colonies in [[La Paz]], [[El Alto]] and [[Santa Cruz de la Sierra]].

There are around 140,000 [[Mennonites in Bolivia]] of Friesian, Flemish and German ethnic origins.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pdt|title=Plautdietsch|access-date=20 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bolivia&oldid=103617|title=Bolivia|access-date=20 May 2019}}</ref>

A few Bolivians carry some Middle Eastern ancestry, mainly from Syria & Lebanon.

=== Indigenous peoples ===
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|image1=Distribucion de los quechuas por municipios (censo nacional 2001).png|caption1=Distribution of [[Quechua people]] by municipality.
|image2=Distribucion de los aymaras por municipios (censo nacional 2001).png|caption2=Distribution of [[Aymara people]] by municipality.
|image3=Pueblos originarios de Bolivia.png|caption3=Map showing the area of indigenous peoples in Bolivia
|image4=Distribucion de los otros puebla indigenas por municipios (censo nacional 2001).png|caption4=Distribution of other [[indigenous peoples in Bolivia|Bolivian indigenous peoples]] by municipality.
}}
The [[Indigenous peoples of Bolivia]] can be divided into two categories of ethnic groups: the Andeans, who are located in the [[Andes|Andean]] [[Altiplano]] and the valley region; and the lowland groups, who inhabit the warm regions of central and eastern Bolivia, including the valleys of Cochabamba Department, the Amazon Basin areas of northern La Paz Department, and the lowland departments of Beni, Pando, Santa Cruz, and Tarija (including the [[Gran Chaco]] region in the southeast of the country). Large numbers of Andean peoples have also migrated to form Quechua, Aymara, and intercultural communities in the lowlands.

*'''Andean ethnicities'''
** [[Aymara people]]. They live on the high plateau of the departments of La Paz, Oruro and Potosí, as well as some small regions near the tropical flatlands.
** [[Quechua people]]. They mostly inhabit the valleys in [[Cochabamba Department|Cochabamba]] and [[Chuquisaca Department|Chuquisaca]]. They also inhabit some mountain regions in [[Potosí Department|Potosí]] and [[Oruro Department|Oruro]]. They divide themselves into different Quechua nations, as the Tarabucos, Ucumaris, Chalchas, Chaquies, Yralipes, Tirinas, among others.
** [[Uru people]]
*'''Ethnicities of the Eastern Lowlands'''
** [[Guaraní people|Guaraníes]]: made up of Guarayos, Pausernas, [[Sirionó]]s, [[Ava Guaraní people|Chiriguanos]], [[Wichí]], Chulipis, Taipetes, [[Toba people|Tobas]], and Yuquis.
**'''Tacanas''': made up of Lecos, Chimanes, Araonas, and Maropas.
**'''Panos''': made up of Chacobos, Caripunas, Sinabos, Capuibos, and Guacanaguas.
**'''Aruacos''': made up of Apolistas, Baures, [[Moxo people|Moxos]], [[Chané people|Chané]], Movimas, Cayabayas, Carabecas, and Paiconecas (Paucanacas).
**'''Chapacuras''': made up of Itenez (More), Chapacuras, Sansinonianos, Canichanas, Itonamas, Yuracares, Guatoses, and [[Chiquitano]]s.
**'''Botocudos''': made up of Bororos and Otuquis.
**'''Zamucos''': made up of [[Ayoreo people|Ayoreos]].