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The Present Standing Of The Most Prominent Earth Nations by lawani: 4:09pm On Feb 28, 2022
This is the approximate present standing of the most prominent Earth nations. Each of these nations spent aeons of time to forge the identity they are today known by. What they share in most cases is more cultural than genetic because any human being can be brought up or trained to be a member of any human culture.

The Han Chinese
They number over 1.3 billion in number and are in full control of three markets and economies by way of China, Taiwan and Singapore. Singapore is a very small nation but among the best organised and richest. China is the biggest economy on Earth but it is not among the richest per Capita.
The descendants of Spain.
They number over 300 million and are not a single race but most of them can trace part of their ancestry to Spain in Europe. They are in control of the market and economy of Spain and a number of Latin American nations including Mexico, Argentina, Colombia etc. Their tightest grip is on Spain which is the richest among the market and economy under their control
Hindi-Urdu nation
They are the largest group in India with 250 million people speaking the language as first language and up to 500 million people in total able to communicate in the language. The language is useful in India as English is useful for the world. They do not wholly control any sovereign nation and are poor in India.
The Bengali nation
They are 160 million people in Bangladesh making up over 90 percent of the population in full control of the market, economy and destiny of Bangladesh but they remain poor in Bangladesh. The least performing big Earth nation with a huge economy and market having control over their own affairs is the Bengali but if they have peace, good roads, portable water, stable electricity, high life expectancy and etc, it may mean they learnt to do it cheaper.

Germans.
They are over 150 million people in population, in full control of the market and economy of a number of prosperous nations including Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein that are among the foremost on the globe. They are also a major stake holder in the USA with Germans being the number one ethnic nationality in the USA by numbers but behind the total of the ethnic nationalities from the British isles consisting of the English, Irish, Scots and the Welsh. The Germans should be in one European state to be able to properly pool their resources together

Turks
They number over 150 million people in all. They are in full control of six states in Europe and Asia with good results. Their states of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz have per Capita income well over sixty percent of European average with only the smallest of them which is Kyrgyz operating at the level of a third world economy. Kyrgyz is only six million people. The Turks are a success story and I do not know why they are yet to pool resources together as one nation.
Russians.
The Russians are over 150 million people with full control over the market and economy of only the Russia federation which is one of the most successful nations on Earth as well as a major world power.

English.
The people number up to 150 million people in total and as the main promoter of the defunct British empire are also the founding fathers and owners of the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and a number of other realms. They have under their control along with the Irish, Scots and Welsh the economy and markets of close to 500 million people living in some of the most affluent nations on Earth. The English along with the other British people control the largest amount of well structured wealth on the globe.

Arabs
They number over 147 million people in control of eight nations, some of which are very resource rich. It will be a good thing to see this Earth nation become properly one too.

Punjabi
The Punjabi nation is 120 million people, a member of Pakistan and India. Majority in no nation. Poor in both Pakistan and India

Marathi
They are 112 million people in India. They control no economy or market in any sovereign country. They are poor in India

Berbers.
They are 100 million in population. A North African people in full control of the market and economy of four countries. Morocco, Algeria Tunisia and Libya. A branch of them are fighting for independence in Mali. They are on the average as rich as China and are successful almost to the level of Europe. They should bound together to form a common market and economy.

Egyptian
They are around 100 million people and are in control of the Egyptian economy and market. They are as rich as China.
The French
They are 90 million people in control of the market and economy of France. They are also in partial control of some other economies and markets in what may be called a Francophone sphere. They are very successful in France which is a rich country. The nations under the sphere are stable also but not as rich as France.
Italians
They are 80 million people. They are in full control of the economy and market of the nation of Italy which is a very rich nation.

The Koreans.
They are an Asian people of a very ambitious breed. In full control of the economy and market of two nations of South Korea and North Korea, total of 75 million. South Korea is a very technologically advanced and rich country with well known brands like Samsung while North Korea also has the profile of a technologically advanced nation but it is not a free market, socialist, no stock exchange and etc. It is therefore classified as nominally poor by the standards of the United Nations.
Hausa.
The Hausa are up to 70 million people if the whole of Kaduna population is counted for them. They are in majority control of the republic of Niger and one of the major Frontline nations of Nigeria. They are poor in both Niger republic and Nigeria. The Hausa also have their people in the new world who can be traced mainly via DNA testing. A lot of them were captured and sold into slavery by the people of the old Oyo empire a situation which fuelled the call for the Fulani jihad that eventually culminated in the sack of the Oyo capital by the jihadists.Their brethren will run into millions in the new world.

18. The Irish.
The Irish number up to 70 million people with the largest of their number being Irish descendants in the USA who went there under the British Flag, persecuted by the empire, driven by famine, poverty and etc and they are the smallest nation from Europe to stand almost abreast with the Germans and the English by number of descendants in the USA. They control along with the other British, the USA, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand etc as members of Britain because in actual fact, the whole of the British isles and the USA should be one market and one economy. Without the resources of the British both mental and spiritual, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and etc would not have been possible.

19.The Portuguese.
The Portuguese claim only 70 million but given their head start in seeking out new lands and the long standing of their dominion in the new world, it is possible that the size of their diaspora is much more than this. They are in control of Portugal as well as culturally in control of Brazil. Portugal is rich as an European country but Brazil is on about the same prosperity level or a bit lower than China.

20 The Gujarati
They are 60 million in population. They control no market or economy as a sovereign nation and are poor in India

21. The Rajasthani
They are 58 million in population. They control the market and economy of no sovereign nation and are poor in India

22. The Yoruba.

They number well over 50 million people in West Africa and have ancestral lands in Nigeria, Benin republic, Togo and Ghana. They do not control any sovereign nation and are poor in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana. There is a large number of people in the new world who are descended from the Yoruba and who actually are more Yoruba than the people in West Africa given their way of life and etc. The proportion of Portuguese home nation to Portuguese diaspora maybe applicable to the Yoruba as well because they arrived the new world at around the same time with the Yoruba having a larger reservoir of new world explorers while the Portuguese had more means. Nevertheless the Yoruba had been crossing to the New world before the beginning of the slave trade and how many Yorubas are there in the new
world is a question open for debate. Also towards the end of the 19th century, the Yoruba sold members of rival Yoruba states into slavery as if it was running out of fashion. Both across the Atlantic via their own ports and to the Ijaws who sold them via Eastern ports to Europeans or to Igbos who used the slaves as farmhands. The volume of the slave trade multiplied during the second half of the 19th century feasting off the Yoruba civil wars of the period. The Yoruba should have a nation state of their own carved out of West Africa with control of their economy, market and their destiny.

23 The Oromo
They are 40 million people with majority control over no market or economy. They are poor in Ethiopia.

24.The Mucakili.
They are 34 million . No sovereign control over any market or economy. Poor in India.

25. The Kurds.

They number over 35 million across Syria, Iran, Armenia, Turkey and Iraq. They have no control over any market or economy as a sovereign state and have been at logger heads with many sovereign states for decades in a bid to secure autonomy. They are rich or poor according to the fortunes of the states in which they find themselves. The Kurds should have their Kurdistan.

26The Igbos.

They number over 35 million with ancestral lands in Nigeria. They have no control over any market or economy of any sovereign nation. They are poor in Nigeria. There is also a large number of African Americans of Igbo origin in the new world but unlike the Yoruba they can know their origin mainly by conducting DNA tests because they did not cross the Atlantic in large numbers as free men and did not settle in the new world as free men from the beginning as did the Yoruba and has must have done some Angolans that engaged the Portuguese in wars. The Igbos nevertheless have their people in the new world in large numbers that can be traced mainly via DNA testing. The Igbos should have their own nation carved out from West Africa with their market and their economy under their control as one of the Chief Earth nations.

27.The Amharic

They are 30 million in population. No control over any market or econimy. Poor in Ethiopia

28. The Sudanese

They are 29 million people in control of the market and economy and are poor in Sudan.


29. The Chattisgarrh
They are 18 million people with no control over any economy or market. They are poor in India.

30.,The Sinhala

They are 17 million people with no control over any market or economy. They are poor in India


31 The Jewish people
This ancient people number over 16 million. They have full control of the market and economy of the state of Israel which is one of the few states that emerged and achieved the status of a fully industrialized nation after the second world war along with Singapore and South Korea The Jewish are technologically advanced and rich. They are at par with the bests of Europe having been largely groomed in Europe for millenia. Israel is a market and economy of ten million people which they control. Over 6 million of them are also in the US as leaders of industry, business, innovation, science and technology. They are important stake holders in the US like the people of British origin and the Germans. The prominent branch of the Jewish nation called the Ashkenazi are mostly Europeans of German and Russian backgrounds with remote but primordial connections to Israel their revered homeland.


What is important is to set all Earth's nation states that took ages to form loose and let them allign or be independent as they deem fit, then remove restrictions on immigration as it was in the past because in the past, no nation would refuse entry to workers coming in to till the land. They always want more. What we need is a standard way to relatebetween workers, employers of labours, governments and the United Nations such that no party will feel cheated. If different nations join together to share market and resources, the union must still respect the individuality and uniqueness of each participant in the union and subsequently give each other space.

The most successful ethnic nationality so far is the trio that originated from the British isles that control more wealth than the Han Chinese if you calculate the GDP of the nations under their control. Followed by the Germans, Japanese, Russians, Hindi,Spaniards, Turks, French, Italians, Berbers, Arabs, Egyptians etc

If you consider it on a per Capita basis, the Indians or Hindi representative of Indians would rank just above the Bengali behind all the large nations.

On a per Capita basis, the Germans, French,British,Japanese, Italians are almost at par, ranking above the Han Chinese. The Turks and Berbers also rank above the Han Chinese ranking almost equal to Europeans. The Han Chinese rank a little above the Arabs and Spaniards on a per Capita basis.

The nations of Africa Yoruba, Igbo, and Zulu probably rank above Bengali and Indians on a per Capita basis if considered as separate nations but Bangladesh is a huge country and it is probably a world of its own! With its own peculiarities.

The back benchers would be the Hausa of Nigeria, the Oromo and Amharic of Ethiopia with the last two better off because they stand a better chance in Ethiopia which is currently one of the fastest growing economies on Earth.

Then a thing that makes à people like the Yoruba and Igbo better off is their relative integration into the rich economies of Europe and North America. On a per Capita basis they are more integrated into these economies than other Africans, even more than the Chinese, Arabs, Turks and Berbers who have a developed place to call home.

Africans generally are the next most integrated into the new world after Europeans from the North to the South. There are a number of African majority nations in the Americas, some founded by rebellious slaves while others were granted independence and a number of them are successful above global average.

Methodology

I got all data and information from Wikipedia and other sources online.

For the populations of Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. I used the 2006 population of the states they own as if all the people were one ethnicity, derived the percentage and used the same percentage on the Nigerian 2022 population estimate of 213 million. Then added figures from other countries for Hausa and Yorubas While leaving the Igbo figure as it is since they have no home land outside Nigeria. I got 53 million for Yoruba, 70 million for Hausa and 35 million for Igbos but some of the states claimed for Hausa have records saying there are little or no indigenous Hausa land owners in those states for example Kaduna while others claim Fulani or other groups as the majority. I took a bit of Edo, Kogi, Niger and Delta states to add to the figure for Yoruba and a chunk of Delta, majority of Rivers, bit of Edo, bit of Kogi, Benue, Cross River to add to Igbos because of the Likelihood that some of those people will feel the same way. I used all of Kaduna for Hausa despite the claim that there is no Hausa land in the place and etc.

I did not bother to calculate for Fulani since they are more or less same as Hausa as far as Nigeria is concerned.

1British Americans

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Americans


2Who are the Kurds?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29702440


3.Demographics of Nigeria with various useful data including depiction of Okene, Warri and Ilorin as one of the first twenty high density population centers in the country.

https://www.statista.com/topics/6477/demographics-of-nigeria/#topicHeader__wrapper

4. Some countries are mountainous, Drothers have long stretches of deserts while some others are filled with cash crops already. Some others are too small.
Below is the list of countries according to how much land they have available for seasonal farming. Seasonal farming is the means by which 90 percent of the food we eat is grown. Rice, maize, beans cassava, sorghum, yams, tomatoes, pepper. The vast majority of what we consume is grown seasonally on land classified as ARABLE LAND.
This is the list according to how much each country got

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/arable-land-by-country


5. Agricultural land. Check what percentage of the land mass of your lcountry is useful for any kind of agriculture. If your country is small and the percentage is big, it is not of much use to feed eight billion people. Part of agricultural land is used for cash crops, animal grazing, fisheries and etc reducing the land available for the all important seasonal farming.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.AGRI.ZS

6. List of countries by effort and money spent to deepen human knowledge by publications in reputable journals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_scientific_and_technical_journal_articles

7. Steel production by country

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_production


8. Mention one thing a huge resource filled nation like the USA will not be able to produce enough at home?. Only more workers to produce more plenty which is why there is a plan in the USA to take one hundred million more workers from nations who have no need of them. They used to take less than one hundred thousand a year but there is a plan to grow the workforce by one hundred million within a few decades. If China can array six hundred million workers of 1.4 billion people, so can the USA but not more than a few nations have the capacity to house such a huge workforce but every nation should be competing with others to attract as much human traffic as it can to itself.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/america-land-use/

Commodities performance 2021

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/best-performing-commodities-2021-energy-supply-chain-bottlenecks-lithium-price-2021-12

World traded goods in brief

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-of-the-world-s-most-traded-goods.html


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