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Aymara

Аймара · Q109402

language area per Glottologcensus counts
1,598,807
Bolivia, census 2012 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
1,777,444
sum of censuses in 2 countries, 2012-2024
Aymaran
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Bolivia: 1,598,807 people in the 2012 census.

Official figures exist for 2 countries; together they add up to 1,777,444. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2012-2024) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

Main language: Central-Southern Aymara. Glottolog classifies it in the Aymaran 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.

Bolivia2012 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Aymara» · total population, all ages; UN row "Unknown" = persons who did not declare belonging to an indigenous nation/people · [1]
1,598,807
Chile2024 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Aymara» · [2]
178,637
Sum across 2 countries1,777,444

Languages and their lineage

Central-Southern Aymara

  1. Aymaranayma1253
  2. Central-Southern Aymaranucl1667

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

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Chile, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  3. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)