Editing Hazaras (section)

== Demographics ==
{{Further|Demographics of Afghanistan|Ethnic groups in Afghanistan}}
[[File:US Army ethnolinguistic map of Afghanistan -- circa 2001-09.jpg|thumb|[[Ethnic groups in Afghanistan|Ethnic groups]] in Afghanistan]]
Most unbiased sources estimate that Hazaras make up approximately 9% of [[Population of Afghanistan|Afghanistan's total population]].<ref name="reliefweb.int" /><ref name="Iranica-Afghanistan" /><ref name="hazara0" /><ref name="hazara1" /><ref name="hazara2" /><ref name="hazara3" /><ref name="hazara4"/><ref name="hazara5" /><ref name="Khazeni-20032">{{cite encyclopedia |title=HAZĀRA |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |url=http://iranicaonline.org/articles/hazara-1 |access-date=23 December 2007 |date=15 December 2003 |last2=Monsutti |first2=Alessandro |last3=Kieffer |first3=Charles M. |first1=Arash |last1=Khazeni}}</ref><ref name="ngm2">{{cite magazine |last=Larson |first=Marisa |date=17 June 2008 |title=Hazara People |url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Hazara_People |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302170049/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Hazara_People |archive-date=2 March 2008 |access-date=9 August 2012 |magazine=[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]}}</ref><ref name="Iranica-Afghanistan2">{{cite web |date=15 December 1983 |title=AFGHANISTAN iv. Ethnography |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afghanistan-iv-ethnography |work=[[Louis Dupree (professor)|L. Dupree]] |publisher=Encyclopædia Iranica |quote=The Hazāra number about 1,000,000 [which makes up 9% of the total Afghan population of approximetaly 11 million in 1983], primarily highland agriculturalists; many work seasonally in Kabul and other urban centers. |edition=Online |location=United States}}</ref> Some sources, however, claim the figure is as low as 3%,<ref name="hazara5" /><ref name="libwashington" /><ref name="sciencedirect" /><ref name="hazara6" /> while others suggest it could be as high as 20%.<ref name="Khazeni-2003" /><ref name="ngm" /><ref name="hazara6" /> The World Hazara Council even claims that around 8 to 10 million Hazaras reside in Afghanistan and the Hazara population worldwide (espacially in Pakistan, Iran, and other countries, largely due to historical migration and displacement) could be as high as 14 million in 2024,<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2024 |title=ENDURING AND OVERCOMING: THE STRUGGLE OF THE HAZARAS IN AFGHANISTAN |trans-title=Report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development |url=https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/441/FAAE/Reports/RP13256076/faaerp27/faaerp27-e.pdf}}</ref> which whould make up to a quarter of the total Afghan population and is not backed up by any unbiased source. During the Hazara uprisings between [[1888–1893 Hazara uprisings|1888 and 1893]], over 60 percent of their population was massacred and forcibly displaced. Consequently, they lost a substantial portion of their ancestral lands to non-Hazaras—territory that, if retained, could have nearly doubled their current land holdings.<ref name="دلجو-2013" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Afghanistan: The Hazara dread {{!}} Lowy Institute |url=https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/afghanistan-hazara-dread?utm_source=chatgpt.com |access-date=7 May 2025 |website=www.lowyinstitute.org |language=en}}</ref>