20 Countries with the Most Ethnic Diversity

Which 20 countries have the highest ethnic fractionalization scores? Fractionalization is defined as the probability that two individuals selected at random from a country will be from different ethnic groups, so high scores imply high ethnic diversity.
Source: Fearon (2003) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level
Hint: Answers from the 160 countries that had over half a million in population in 1990, so one country no longer exists
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Rank
Fractionalization
Answer
1
1.000
Papua New Guinea
2
0.953
Tanzania
3
0.933
Democratic Republic of the Congo
4
0.930
Uganda
5
0.899
Liberia
6
0.887
Cameroon
7
0.883
Togo
8
0.880
South Africa
9
0.878
Congo
10
0.861
Madagascar
11
0.857
Gabon
12
0.852
Kenya
13
0.846
Ghana
14
0.829
Malawi
15
0.818
Guinea-Bissau
16
0.812
Somalia
17
0.811
India
18
0.805
Nigeria
19
0.801
Yugoslavia
20
0.791
Central African Republic
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