The proportion of Guyanese in a representative sample who identified themselves as being Indo-Guyanese was 39.5%, Afro-Guyanese 27.2% and of ‘mixed’ race 24.5%, according to a survey done last year for the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP).
The figure should be a “fairly accurate representation of the country in terms of self-identification,” Director of LAPOP Dr. Elizabeth Zechmeister told Stabroek News in an exclusive interview yesterday. She noted that the distribution was obtained from the survey itself and they did not have access to that dataset from the 2012 census from the authorities here. The survey was conducted by US University Vanderbilt for LAPOP. The changing demographics of Guyana and the possible attendant political consequences are of keen interest given the historical voting patterns here.
However, the authorities here are yet to release data from the 2012 census showing the breakdown of Guyana’s population based on
