Exceptions to averaging deaths over conflict years include Rwanda and Nagorno Karabagh.

unclear if 1984- 1000 Siachen refers to internal Chinese fighting or residual border conflict with India.

In general, wars are assigned to the country in which they occured, even if there was a subsequent change. Colonial wars are assigned to the colonial power; Bangladesh 1971 is assigned to Pakistan.

0 = PWT5.6, 2 = pwt5.6 extended with wbgdp/cap growth rates from wdi2001 and in a few cases missing from wdi2001, from wdi2000; 3 = from predicted values of country specific regression of log(gdp/pop) on year and log(energy/cow pop est.); 4 = pred. values from xi: reg log(gdp/pop) i.region*lenercap i.region|year Oil

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religious data on Armenia obtained from LC by adding Kurds and Azeris

data on GDR, USSR, Czechoslovakia and SR Yugoslavia is from EB Book of the Year, 1990

according to EB Tho (.018) are more than the Chinese in Vietnam (.15)

in South Africa I have used EB data to change 1st and 2nd dom. groups to Zulu (.22) and Xhosa (.18)

I have coded Christians as the minority religious and ethnic group in Saudi Arabia

I now think that the relevant minority group for Libya is Berber, which is about .05 in LC

I realize the Kuwaiti data is in flux... what do you want to do? Latest data, maybe? I will do that for the time being

German-speakers in Italy live in South Tyrol, where they comprise about 2/3 of the pop., or about 290,000, Some 5,500 German speakers live in other parts of Italy. They are the largest non-Italian ethnic community in Italy. Sources: Ethnologue, http://cv.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/document/alemany/an/i4/i4.html#1

A European Union study confirms about 105,000 Turkish speakers in Greece. This works out to be .01 of the population. Source: http://www.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/homean/index1.html.

Catalan speakers are as many as .1875 of Spanish pop. Problem: bilingualism. Source: Euromosaic.

in France taking the North African countries separately every one of them loses out to the share of immigrants from Portugal. But taking them together, they beat Portugal. I think religion is best here because not all are Arabs: substantial number of Turks. Let me know if that doesn't seem right.

I have asked David on Nigeria who quotes Morrison's data: Hausa-Fulani 29%, Yoruba 20%