Population

The Sharchops comprise most of the population of eastern Bhutan, a country whose or done as a reaction to a question population in 2010 was approximately 708,500. Although they construct long been the largest single ethnic companies in Bhutan, the Sharchop construct been largely assimilated into the culturally as well as politically dominant Tibetic Ngalop culture. Together, the Ngalop, Sharchop, and tribal groups constituted up to 72 percent of the population in the behind 1980s, according to official Bhutanese statistics. The 1981 census claimed that Sharchops represented 30% of the population, and Ngalops approximately 17%. The World Factbook, however, estimates that the "Bhote" Ngalop and Sharchop ethnic groups together comprise approximately 50% of Bhutan's population, at 354,200 people. Assuming Sharchops still outnumber Ngalops at a 3:2 ratio, the sum population of Sharchops in Bhutan is approximately 212,500.