# What are the racial demographics of Earth?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-racial-demographics-of-earth/507984>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 28, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-racial-demographics-of-earth/507984 "2009-08-28T01:12:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-racial-demographics-of-earth/507984/21 "2013-12-17T00:00:58Z")

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I miss Polycarp. ☹

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-racial-demographics-of-earth/507984/22 "2013-12-18T00:06:29Z")

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I thought the same thing. It’s kinda of spooky, yet cool how our words remain after we’re gone.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-racial-demographics-of-earth/507984/23 "2013-12-18T21:15:02Z")

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> [@cmyk](#):
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> I thought the same thing. It’s kinda of spooky, yet cool how our words remain after we’re gone.

Yeah, I had forgotten about Poly’s answer to this. ☹

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**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-racial-demographics-of-earth/507984/24 "2013-12-18T21:18:10Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Me: .000000000000000000001%

That’s impressive. I’ve never communicated with a trillionth of a person before. 😉

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**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-racial-demographics-of-earth/507984/25 "2013-12-19T07:39:39Z")

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Just two. Those from Gondwanaland are the Africans, while those from Laurasia are the all the Eurasians, native Americans, plus maybe Polynesians, etc.

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