{"id":48329,"date":"2016-07-19T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48329"},"modified":"2016-07-19T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:22:51","slug":"indian-african-guyanese-numbers-continue-to-decline-census-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48329","title":{"rendered":"Indian, African-Guyanese numbers continue to decline, census finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/2016\/news\/stories\/07\/19\/indian-african-guyanese-numbers-continue-decline-census-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Indian, African-Guyanese numbers continue to decline, census finds<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stabroek News<\/a><br \/>\nGeorgetown, Guyana<br \/>\n2016-07-19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 mixed race, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas\" target=\"_blank\">Amerindian<\/a> populations still growing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although the country\u2019s two largest ethnic groups, East Indian and African-Guyanese, continued to decline in their numbers between 2002 and 2012, the drop was offset by continued growth in the mixed race and Amerindian populations, according to the last census.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statisticsguyana.gov.gy\/census.html#census2012\" target=\"_blank\">2012 National Population and Housing Census<\/a> also found that despite the shifts, which include the decline in the East Indian-Guyanese population from 326,277 or 43.4% to 297,493 or 39.8%\u2014a drop of 28,784 or 3.6%\u2014the overall ethnic distribution pattern remained unchanged from the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statisticsguyana.gov.gy\" target=\"_blank\">The Bureau of Statistics<\/a> yesterday announced the release of two Compendiums that further detail the findings of the four-year-old census, including the ethnic composition of the population&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com\/?p=5251\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian, African-Guyanese numbers continue to decline, census finds Stabroek News Georgetown, Guyana 2016-07-19 Staff Writer \u2013 mixed race, Amerindian populations still growing Although the country\u2019s two largest ethnic groups, East Indian and African-Guyanese, continued to decline in their numbers between 2002 and 2012, the drop was offset by continued growth in the mixed race and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,33,8],"tags":[2145,24519],"class_list":["post-48329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-census","category-media-archive","tag-guyana","tag-stabroek-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48330,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48329\/revisions\/48330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}