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Bosniaks

Боснийцы · Q940348

language area per Glottologcensus counts
153,801
Serbia, census 2022 (ethnicity / nationality)
274,570
sum of censuses in 6 countries, 2002-2023
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Serbia: 153,801 people in the 2022 census.

Official figures exist for 6 countries; together they add up to 274,570. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2002-2023) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 98 people identified with the nationality "Боснийцы" (Bosniaks)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 1 other self-designation to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Bosnian Standard. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European 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.

Serbia2022 · ethnicity / nationality · «Bošnjaci» · [2]
153,801
Montenegro2023 · ethnicity / nationality · «Bosniaks» · [3]
58,956
Croatia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Bosniac» · [4]
24,131
Slovenia2002 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Bosniac» · [5]
21,542
North Macedonia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Bosniak» · [6]
16,042
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Боснийцы» · [1]
98
Sum across 6 countries274,570

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 87 · 88.8%Women 11 · 11.2%

Urban and rural

Urban 89 · 90.8%Rural 9 · 9.2%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Moscow (city)
26
Krasnodar Krai
15
Sverdlovsk Oblast
12
Republic of Tatarstan
8
Samara Oblast
6
Moscow Oblast
5
Tyumen Oblast (excl. autonomous okrugs)
4
Saint Petersburg (city)
3
Republic of Dagestan
3
Voronezh Oblast
1

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

Languages and their lineage

Bosnian Standard

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Balto-Slavicbalt1263
  4. Slavicslav1255
  5. South Slavicsout3147
  6. Western South Slavicwest2804
  7. Serbian-Croatian-Bosniansout1528
  8. Shtokavskishto1241
  9. New Shtokaviannews1236
  10. Eastern Herzegovinian Shtokavianeast2821
  11. Bosnian Standardbosn1245

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

PakistanisRussiansMarathiGermansSpaniardsMexicansUkrainiansEnglishIrishAmericansItaliansRomaniansNepali (Khas-Arya)DutchBelarusiansTajiksCzechsScotsSerbsBulgariansSlovaksArmeniansCubansLithuanians

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. Републички завод за статистику / Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Коначни резултати Пописа становништва, домаћинстава и станова 2022 (Final results of the 2022 Census), 28.04.2023; Book 1 'Национална припадност' https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2023/Pdf/G20234001.pdf. https://www.stat.gov.rs/vesti/20230428-konacnirezpopisa/
  3. Statistical Office of Montenegro (MONSTAT). The 2023 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings: Population of Montenegro by National, i.e. Ethnical Affiliation, Religion, Mother Tongue, and Language a Person Usually Speaks (Release 135/2024, 15 Oct 2024). https://www.monstat.org/uploads/files/popis%202021/saopstenja/SAOPSTENJE_Popis%20stanovnis…
  4. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Croatia, Census - de jure - 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. Slovenia, 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. State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia. Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of North Macedonia, 2021 - first dataset, Table T-02 (30.03.2022). https://www.stat.gov.mk/pdf/2022/2.1.22.10Popis-mk-en.pdf
  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)