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Arabs

Арабы · Q35323

language area per Glottologcensus counts
40,085
Niger, census 2001 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
68,765
sum of censuses in 6 countries, 2001-2021
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Niger: 40,085 people in the 2001 census.

Official figures exist for 6 countries; together they add up to 68,765. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2001-2021) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 16,329 people identified with the nationality "Арабы" (Arabs)1. That is 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 24 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Arabic. Glottolog classifies it in the Afro-Asiatic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Niger2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Arab» · [2]
40,085
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Арабы» · [1]
16,329
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Arab» · [3]
6,575
Tajikistan2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Arab» · [4]
4,184
Belarus2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Arab» · [5]
1,037
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Arab» · [6]
555
Sum across 6 countries68,765

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 13,333 · 81.7%Women 2,996 · 18.3%

Urban and rural

Urban 15,086 · 92.4%Rural 1,243 · 7.6%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Moscow (city)
2,185
Saint Petersburg (city)
1,144
Republic of Bashkortostan
866
Moscow Oblast
782
Kabardino-Balkar Republic
727
Republic of Tatarstan
662
Chuvash Republic
507
Rostov Oblast
449
Krasnodar Krai
441
Republic of Adygea
422

Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1

Languages and their lineage

Arabic

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Semiticsemi1276
  3. West Semiticwest2786
  4. Central Semiticcent2236
  5. Arabianarab1394
  6. Arabicarab1395

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

EgyptiansMoroccansOromoAmharaSaudisJordaniansHausaLibyansSomalisTigray peopleOmanisGurage peoplePalestiniansAfar peopleTuareg AmazighsEmiratisBahrainisQatarisJewish peopleIraqisAssyriansLebaneseAlgeriansMauritanians

Sources

  1. Rosstat. National composition of the population of the Russian Federation. Results of the 2020 All-Russian Population Census (reference date 1 October 2021), vol. 5, table 1. Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx (archived copy)
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Niger, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  3. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Ukraine, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  4. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Tajikistan, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  5. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Belarus, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  6. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Kazakhstan, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  7. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)