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12. Even then there was no indigenous population

Uninhabited until the late 18th century, Diego Garcia had no indigenous population. Its only inhabitants were European overseers who managed the coconut plantations for their absentee landowners and contract workers mostly of African, Indian, and Malay ancestry
At the time of the expulsion in the late 60's there were only around 975 inhabitants.