Editing Sharchops (section)

==Population==
The Sharchops comprise most of the population of eastern Bhutan, a country whose total population in 2010 was approximately 708,500.<ref name=CIA/> Although they have long been the largest single ethnic group in Bhutan, the Sharchop have been largely assimilated into the culturally and politically dominant Tibetic Ngalop culture.<ref name=CS-EG>{{Country study|author=Robert L. Worden |country=Bhutan |abbr=bt |section=Ethnic Groups |editor=Andrea Matles Savada |date=September 1991 |pd=yes}}</ref>  Together, the Ngalop, Sharchop, and tribal groups constituted up to 72 percent of the population in the late 1980s, according to official Bhutanese statistics.<ref name=CS-EG/><ref name=CS-s>{{Country study|author=Robert L. Worden |country=Bhutan |abbr=bt |section=Society |editor=Andrea Matles Savada |date=September 1991 |pd=yes}}</ref> The 1981 census claimed that Sharchops represented 30% of the population, and Ngalops approximately 17%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/bhutan/backgrounders/index.html |title=Bhutan Backgrounder |work=SATP online |publisher=South Asia Terrorism Portal |date=2002-09-20 |access-date=2011-07-10}}</ref> [[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.<ref name=CIA>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/bhutan/ Bhutan]. ''[[The World Factbook]]''. [[Central Intelligence Agency]].</ref> Assuming Sharchops still outnumber Ngalops at a 3:2 ratio, the total population of Sharchops in Bhutan is approximately 212,500.