Lebanese people
| Total population | |
|---|---|
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Lebanon: 4,017,095 |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
 Brazil
|
1,000,000 - 6,000,000 - 7,000,000 |
 Lebanon
|
4,130,000 |
 Argentina
|
1,500,000 |
 Colombia
|
700,000 |
 United States
|
504,000 |
 Mexico
|
400,000 |
 Venezuela
|
340,000 |
 Canada
|
250,000 |
 France
|
225,000 |
 Australia
|
203,139 |
 Dominican Republic
|
80,000 |
 United Arab Emirates
|
80,000 |
 Uruguay
|
70,000 |
 Germany
|
50,000 |
 Senegal
|
30,000 |
 Sierra Leone
|
33,000-40,000 |
 South Africa
|
20,000 |
 Cyprus
|
20,000 |
 Spain
|
11,820 |
 United Kingdom
|
10,459 |
 Israel
|
7,000 |
 Liberia
|
4,000 |
| Languages | |
|
Spoken Vernacular Lebanese Arabic & Cypriot Maronite Arabic Spoken Traditional Phoenician, succeeded by Western Aramaic, succeeded by Lebanese Arabic Second Languages French, English Diaspora French, English, Spanish, Portuguese |
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| Religion | |
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Islam (59.5%):2 (Maronite, Greek Orthodox, Melkite and Protestant) |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Levantines, other Arabs, other Semites (Jews, Assyrians, Maltese), and other Mediterranean peoples. |
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# Lebanese Christians of all denominations constitute the majority of all Lebanese worldwide, but represent only a large minority within Lebanon.
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Lebanon: 4,017,095
Lebanese diaspora: 8–14 million
Islam (59.5%):2
(Shia,3Sunni,3Alawites, Ismailis, progressive Muslims and Druze)4
The Lebanese people (Arabic: الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC: ash-shaʻb al-Lubnānī Lebanese Arabic pronunciation: [eʃˈʃaʕeb ellɪbˈneːne]) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon. The religious groups among the Lebanese people are Shias (27%), Sunnis (26%), Maronites (21%), Greek Orthodox (8%), Druze (7%), Melkites (4%), and Protestants (1%). There is a large diaspora in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Africa. The term may also include those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains prior to the creation of the modern Lebanese state.
As the relative proportion of the various sects is politically sensitive, Lebanon has not collected official census data on ethnic background since the 1932 under the French Mandate. It is therefore difficult to have an exact demographic analysis of Lebanese society. The largest concentration of people of Lebanese ancestry may be in Brazil having an estimated population of 5.8 to 7 million, but it may be an exaggeration, given that an official survey conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that less than 1 million Brazilians claimed any Middle-Eastern origin. The Lebanese have always traveled the world, many of them settling permanently, most notably in the last two centuries.
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