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Are there any sources on demographics/racial composition of Chaos armies? Why most of them seem to be human while you look at arts and minis? This applies to all but is especially weird when it comes to Khorne who has so many races better adapted for onslaught, hardship and slaughter than humans. Why would there be so many humans in chaos armies in comparison to other races?

Because Humans are one of the dominant powers of the Galaxy, number in the trillions and can very easily be turned from their God to worship Khorne.

Besides what Gert said, realistically speaking GW will not show a lot of the minor xenos races that have fallen to Khorne since there's no models for them and the majority of the other factions in 40k are either very resistant to Khornate influence or outright immune, including whatever minority of them following him that there isn't really a point to officially include them in art/game.

In the 41st millennium there is only war. Practically every sentient being in the galaxy is doing the work of Khorne. Wether they know it or not, like it or hate it

 Grimskul wrote:
Besides what Gert said, realistically speaking GW will not show a lot of the minor xenos races that have fallen to Khorne since there's no models for them and the majority of the other factions in 40k are either very resistant to Khornate influence or outright immune, including whatever minority of them following him that there isn't really a point to officially include them in art/game.

Pretty much this. Theoretically, lots of xenos species are probably susceptible to Khorne corruption/worship. But GW hasn't established any of said species to be so numerous/Khorne-prone as to warrant being a faction with rules and models, and thus you don't see much of them in the lore. Whereas as humans are numerous and have established reasons to have beef with the other factions in the game, so doing human Khorne armies makes sense.

Let's say there's a species of, I don't know, Khorne-worshipping otter people out there. Every last member of that species is all about Khorne. They love spilling blood and shouting prayers to Khorne while they fight and so on. Now, just how many of these otter people are there in the setting? Not enough to have been worth mentioning up to this point. Which implies that our otter people have limited numbers and influence and thus probably aren't a player on the galactic stage. You know how people complain that Tau aren't a big enough deal to influence the setting? That, but doubly so for our otter people. If you wanted to do a custom army full of khorne otters or whatever, have at it and enjoy yourself. But they're probably just another small fish in a very large pond just like most of the minor factions we hear about.

Also, I feel like a Khorne-centric society is going to be more prone to self-destruction than most. Like, you can picture a Tzeentchian or Nurgly or Slaaneshi society thriving and proliferating in pursuit of some of the less lethal interests of their gods, but a society obsessed with killing each other to a cartoonish degree is more likely to wreck its own infastructure, kill its potential scientists, etc. But ultimately, Khorne cares not from whom the blood flows; humans are just the most prolific species in the galaxy to also be prone to khornate corruption.

It is worthwhile to point out that orks are an exception to this. There can absolutely be individual orks or small groups that worship Khorne. But as a species Gork and Mork fill up Khornes niche. Also it’s not clear if Gork and Mork protect their followers or if the followers protect Gork and Mork. Warp stuff works weird with the orks.

Humans are the most numerous species in the galaxy that can also fall to chaos, only outnumbered by orks who are mostly immune to Khorne's influence. It stands to reason that the vast vast majority of chaos worshipers will be humans.

 Nerak wrote:
It is worthwhile to point out that orks are an exception to this. There can absolutely be individual orks or small groups that worship Khorne. But as a species Gork and Mork fill up Khornes niche. Also it’s not clear if Gork and Mork protect their followers or if the followers protect Gork and Mork. Warp stuff works weird with the orks.

Gork and Mork seem to mostly just have fun fighting each other and every so often go and trash the homes of the other Chaos Gods for fun. I don't think they "protect" orks. However Orks themselves have a kind of group mentality that operates in the background and they can "tell" when an ork isn't propa orky. That's how they can weed out infestations of Chaos corrupted Orks or Tyranid infestation. Heck at one time there were some ork Khorne models on the market.



Also note that the points raised earlier about humans being the most heavily populated race is also why we only see Genestealer Cults as humans and low ranking ones as they are the most heavily oppressed and populated and the most likely to rise up against the higher tiers of Imperial society.