The Tibetan people are indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching from Central Asia in the North and West to Myanmar and China Proper in the East and India, Nepal and Bhutan to the south.
Modern demographics for the Tibetan people are a matter of dispute, as the Government of Tibet in Exile claims that the number of Tibetans has fallen from 6.3 million to 5.4 million since 1959 , while the government of the People's Republic of China cl...
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The Tibetan people are indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching from Central Asia in the North and West to Myanmar and China Proper in the East and India, Nepal and Bhutan to the south.
Modern demographics for the Tibetan people are a matter of dispute, as the Government of Tibet in Exile claims that the number of Tibetans has fallen from 6.3 million to 5.4 million since 1959 , while the government of the People's Republic of China claims that the number of Tibetans has risen from 2.7 million to 5.4 million since 1954 . The SIL Ethnologue documents an additional 125,000 Tibetan exiles living in India, 60,000 in Nepal, and 4,000 in Bhutan. The Central Tibetan Administration establishes a Green Book (a kind of Tibetan citizenship i.d.) to Tibetan refugees. Based on CTA data there are approximately 145,150 Tibetans in diaspora: a little over 100,000 in India ; in Nepal there are over 16,000; over 1,800 in Bhutan and more than 25,000 in other parts of the world. Tibetan...
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