Where is the largest population of tribes?

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Answer 1

The correct answer is Africa.

Key Points

Africa has the world's largest tribal population and it is also the most economically underprivileged in our country.
Africa has within it more than a billion people in 54 countries.
It also has around 3,000 tribes, from diverse regions with varying numbers of people.
30% of the African population belongs to the tribal or ethnic group.

Additional Information

India
- India has the second-largest tribal population in the world.
- As per the Census 2011, the tribal population constitutes about 8.9% of the total population in India.
Nepal
- The official term for Nepal's indigenous peoples is Adivasi Janajati.
- They account up about 8.5 million of the 26 million Nepalese population, or 35.81 percent of the nation's overall population.
China
- According to China's sixth national census of 2010, the population of ethnic minorities is 113,792,211 persons.
- It comprises 8.49 per cent of the country's total population.