Ethnic groups in Europe
Country Majority % Regional majorities Minorities
Albania Albanians 82.58% Greeks ~3% , and other 2% ( Aromanians , Romani , Macedonians , Montenegrins , Bulgarians and Serbs )
Armenia Armenians 98.1% Russians , Yazidis , Assyrians , Kurds , Greeks , Jews
Austria Austrians 91.1% South Slavs 4% ( includes Burgenland Croats , Carinthian Slovenes , Croats , Slovenes , Serbs and Bosniaks ) , Turks 1.6% , Germans 0.9% , and other or unspecified 2.4% . ( 2001 census )
Azerbaijan Azerbaijanis 91.6% Lezgin 2% Armenians , Russians , Talysh , Avars , Turks , Tatars , Ukrainians and Poles
Belarus Belarusians 83.7% Russians 8.3% , Poles 3.1% , Ukrainians 1.7% , and other 3.2% . ( 2009 census )
Belgium Flemings 58% Walloons 31% , Germans 1% mixed or other ( i.e . Luxembourgers , Eastern Europeans or Southern Europeans , Africans and Asians , and Latin Americans ) 10%
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosniaks 50.11% Serbs 30.78% , Croats 15.43% Other 2.73% ( 2013 )
Bulgaria Bulgarians 84% Turks 8.8% Roma 5% , Others 2% ( including Russian , Armenian , Tatar , and Vlach ) . ( 2001 census )
Croatia Croats 90% Serbs 4.5% , other 5.9% ( including Bosniaks , Hungarians , Slovenes , Czechs , Dalmatian Italians , Austrian- German , Romanian and Romani ) . ( 2001 census )
Czech Republic Czechs 90.4% Moravians 3.7% Slovaks 1.9% , and other 4% . ( 2001 census )
Denmark Danes 90% Faroese other Scandinavian , Germans , Frisians , other European , Greenlandic people and others
Estonia Estonians 68% Baltic Russians 25.6% Ukrainians 2.1% , Belarusians 1.3% , Finns 0.9% , and other ( Baltic Germans , Estonian Swedes and Estonian Danes ) 2.2% . ( 2000 census ) Included are South Estonian speakers
Finland Finns 93.4% Swedishspeaking Finns 5.6% , Sami 0.1% Russians 1.1% , Estonians 0.7% , Romani 0.1% and Latvians 0.5% . ( 2019 ) also Somalis , Germans , Macedonians and Iranians
France French 86% ( includes sometimes considered as regional groups like Bretons , Corsicans , Occitans , Alsatians , Arpitans , Basques , Catalans and Flemings ) other European 7% , North African 7% , Sub-Saharan African , Indochinese , Asian , Latin American and Pacific Islander . French with recent immigrant background ( at least one great-grandparent ) 33%
Germany Germans 81-91% includes Bavarians , Swabians , Saxons , Frisians , Sorbs , Silesians , Saarland Germans , Polish-Germans and Schleswig-Holstein Danes ) Germans without immigrant background 81% ; Germans with immigrant background ( including ethnic German repatriates and people of partial immigrant background ) 10% ; Foreigners 9% : Turks 2.1% , others 6.7% and non-European descent about 2 to 5% )
Georgia Georgians 86.8% Russians , Azerbaijanis , Armenians , Ukrainians , Greeks , Ossetians
Greece Greeks 93% includes linguistic minorities 3% Albanians 4% and other ( i.e . Aromanians , Megleno-Romanians , Cretan Turks and Macedonian / Greek Slavic 3% . ( 2001 census )
Hungary Hungarians 92.3% Romani 1.9% , Germans 1.2% , other ( i.e . Croats , Romanians , Bulgarians , Turks and Ruthenians ) or unknown 4.6% . ( 2001 census )
Iceland Icelanders 91% other ( non-native/immigrants - mainly Polish , Lithuanians , Danes , Germans and Latvians ) 9%
Ireland Irish 87.4% other white ( large numbers of Latvian , Polish and Ukrainian migration ) 7.5% , Asian 1.3% , black 1.1% , mixed 1.1% , and unspecified ( i.e . Ulster Scots and Irish Travellers ) 1.6% . ( 2006 census )
European ethnic groups by sovereign state
Pan and Pfeil ( 2002 ) distinguish 33 peoples which form the majority population in at least one [ a ] sovereign state geographically situated in Europe . [ b ] These majorities range from nearly homogeneous populations as in Armenia and Poland , to comparatively slight majorities as in Latvia or Belgium , or even the marginal majority in Bosnia and Herzegovina . Montenegro is a multiethnic state in which no group forms a majority .
The indigenous peoples of Europe are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various indigenous groups that reside in the nations of Europe. Groups may be defined by common genetic ancestry, common language, or both. According to the German monograph Minderheitenrechte in Europa co-edited by Pan and Pfeil (2002) there are 87 distinct peoples of Europe, of which 33 form the majority population in at least one sovereign state, while the remaining 54 constitute ethnic minorities. The total number of national or linguistic minority populations in Europe is estimated at 105 million people, or 14% of 770 million Europeans. There are no universally accepted and precise definitions of the terms ethnic group and nationality. In the context of European ethnography in particular, the terms ethnic group, people, nationality and ethno-linguistic group, are used as mostly synonymous, although preference may vary in usage with respect to the situation specific to the individual countries of Europe.