Editing Demographics of Zimbabwe (section)

==Ethnic groups==
According to 2012 Census report, 99.6% of the population is of African origin.<ref name="zimstat.co.zw">{{cite web|url=http://www.zimstat.co.zw/dmdocuments/Census/CensusResults2012/National_Report.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-02-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140901192722/http://www.zimstat.co.zw/dmdocuments/Census/CensusResults2012/National_Report.pdf |archive-date=2014-09-01 }}</ref>
Of the rest of the population, the great bulk—perhaps 30,000 persons<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/02/zimbabwe-only-white-minster-says-insults-against-whites-continue-at-top/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130410200723/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/02/zimbabwe-only-white-minster-says-insults-against-whites-continue-at-top/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 10, 2013|title=Zimbabwe's only white {{sic|minster|nolink=y}} says insults against whites continue at top government level|work=Fox News|date=2015-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3df4becc1c.html|title=Refworld - Zimbabwe: Dual citizenship|author=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|work=Refworld}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/nitelife18.16206.html |title=Teens assaulted in police raid on nightclub |work=newzimbabwe.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819133536/http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/nitelife18.16206.html |archive-date=2012-08-19 }}</ref>—are [[White people in Zimbabwe|White Zimbabwean]]s of European ancestry, a minority which had diminished in size prior to independence.<ref name="blackfire">{{cite book|last=Raeburn|first=Michael|title=We are everywhere: Narratives from Rhodesian guerillas|pages=1–209}}</ref>

The vast black majority has grown at a projected annual rate of 4.3% since 1980.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indexmundi.com/zimbabwe/population_growth_rate.html|title=Zimbabwe Population growth rate|work=indexmundi.com}}</ref> Although present figures are difficult to ascertain, the white community once reproduced itself at an annual rate (under 1.5%) similar to that of most totals in [[developed nations]].<ref name="zimstudy">{{cite book|last=Nelson|first=Harold|title=Zimbabwe: A Country Study|pages=80–137}}</ref> Of the two major ethnolinguistic categories, [[Shona people|Shona]] speakers formed a decisive plurality at (80<)% and occupied the eastern two-thirds of Zimbabwe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/zimbabwe/zpeople.html |title=The People of Zimbabwe |access-date=2007-11-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712141810/http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/zimbabwe/zpeople.html |archive-date=2007-07-12 }}</ref> [[Ndebele people (Zimbabwe)|Ndebele]] speakers constitute about 16%, and none of the other indigenous ethnic groups came to as much as 2% in recent decades.<ref name="96alm">{{cite book|last=Famighetti|first=Robert|title=The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1996|page=837}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=September 2020|Source is a 1996 version of World Almanac, poor-quality source}} African speakers of nonindigenous languages included migrant workers from [[Malawi]], [[Zambia]], and [[Mozambique]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postcolonialweb.org/zimbabwe/politics/losers.html|title=The Land Act's Losers|work=postcolonialweb.org}}</ref>

Over 90% of [[White Zimbabweans]] are of [[British people|British]] or [[British diaspora in Africa|British diaspora]]n origin;<ref name="zimstudy"/> at various times, many emigrated from [[South Africa]] and elsewhere.<ref name="zimstudy"/> After [[World War II]], Zimbabwe (then [[Southern Rhodesia]]) received a substantial influx of emigrants from the United Kingdom—a handful previously resided in other colonies such as India, Pakistan and [[Kenya]]. Also represented on a much smaller scale were individuals of [[Afrikaner]], [[Greek diaspora|Greek]], and [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] origin.<ref name="blackfire"/> After [[Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence]] in 1965, [[Ian Smith]]'s administration removed technical obstacles to immigration from [[southern Europe]].<ref name="zimstudy"/>

A heavily urbanised [[Coloured]] population is descended, partially, from early unions between White Rhodesian settlers and local Black African females. Many, however, can also trace their ancestry to the [[Cape Coloureds|Dutch/Khoisan]] mulatto clans of the [[Cape of Good Hope|Cape]].

With the exception of a select few who were brought to Zimbabwe as railroad workers, most [[Indians in Zimbabwe|Asians in Zimbabwe]] arrived from India pursuing employment or [[entrepreneurship]]. An educated class, they have traditionally engaged in retail trade or manufacturing.<ref name="zimstudy"/>