ndian, practically
nonexistent
Uzbekistan:
Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak
2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5% (1996 est.)
Vanuatu:
indigenous Melanesian 94%, French 4%, Vietnamese, Chinese,
Pacific Islanders
Venezuela:
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African,
indigenous people
Vietnam:
Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese, Hmong, Thai, Khmer, Cham,
mountain groups
Virgin Islands:
black 80%, white 15%, other 5%
note: West Indian (45% born in the Virgin Islands and 29% born
elsewhere in the West Indies) 74%, US mainland 13%, Puerto Rican 5%,
other 8%
Wallis and Futuna:
Polynesian
West Bank:
Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17%
Western Sahara:
Arab, Berber
Yemen:
predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians,
Europeans
Yugoslavia:
Serb 62.6%, Albanian 16.5%, Montenegrin 5%, Hungarian
3.3%, other 12.6% (1991)
Zambia:
African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2%
Zimbabwe:
African 98% (Shona 71%, Ndebele 16%, other 11%), mixed and
Asian 1%, white less than 1%
Taiwan:
Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%,
aborigine 2%
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@Exchange rates
Afghanistan:
afghanis per US dollar - 4,700 (January 2000), 4,750
(February 1999), 17,000 (December 1996), 7,000 (January 1995), 1,900
(January 1994), 1,019 (March 1993), 850 (1991); note - these rates
reflect the free market exchange rates rather than the official
exchange rate, which was fixed at 50.600 afghanis to the dollar
until 1996, when it rose to 2,262.65 per dollar, and finally became
fixed again at 3,000.00 per dollar in April 1996
Albania:
leke per US dollar - 146.08 (December 2000),143.71 (2000)
137.69 (1999), 150.63 (1998), 148.93 (1997), 104.50 (1996); note -
leke is the plural of lek
Algeria:
Algerian dinars per US dollar - 74,813 (January 2001),
75.260 (2000), 66.574 (1999), 58.739 (1998), 57.707 (1997), 54.749
(1996)
American Samoa:
the US dollar is used
Andorra:
euros per US dollar - 1.0659 (January 2001), 1.0854 (2000),
0.9386 (1999); French francs per US dollar - 5.8995 (1998), 5.8367
(1997), 5.1155 (1996); Spanish pesetas per US dollar - 149.40
(1998), 146.41 (1997), 126.66 (1996)
Angola:
kwanza per US dollar - 17,910,800 (January 2001), 10,041,000
(2000), 2,790,706 (1999), 392,824 (1998), 229,
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