> Just off the top of my head for countries that also track ethnicity/race in government statistics: Belgium (because the Walloon/Fleming ethnic divide is so ce

> Just off the top of my head for countries that also track ethnicity/race in government statistics: Belgium (because the Walloon/Fleming ethnic divide is so central to its politics), Germany (under the euphemism "migration background") That is the point. They don't track race; they track country of birth, as does Japan. — this is an objective standard. The U.S.A. is rather unique in that it tracks subjective, self-reported race.