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Crimean Tatars

Крымские татары · Q117458

language area per Glottologcensus counts
257,592
Russia, census 2021
506,162
sum of censuses in 4 countries, 2001-2021
Turkic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Russia: 257,592 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 4 countries; together they add up to 506,162. 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), 257,592 people identified with the nationality "Крымские татары" (Crimean Tatars)1. That is 0.20% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 6 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Crimean Tatar. Glottolog classifies it in the Turkic 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.

Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Крымские татары» · [1]
257,592
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Crimean Tatars» · [2]
248,193
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Crimean Tatars» · [3]
359
Tajikistan2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Crimean Tatars» · [4]
18
Sum across 4 countries506,162

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex

Men 127,635 · 49.5%Women 129,957 · 50.5%

Urban and rural

Urban 63,544 · 24.7%Rural 194,048 · 75.3%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Republic of Crimea (as listed by Rosstat)
250,651
Sevastopol (as listed by Rosstat)
2,919
Krasnodar Krai
1,880
Moscow (city)
244
Moscow Oblast
231
Rostov Oblast
217
Republic of Tatarstan
123
Perm Krai
84
Saint Petersburg (city)
77
Republic of Bashkortostan
74

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

Languages and their lineage

Crimean Tatar

  1. Turkicturk1311
  2. Common Turkiccomm1245
  3. Kipchak-Turkestankipc1240
  4. Kipchakkipc1239
  5. Northwest Kipchaknort3424
  6. West Kipchakwest1472
  7. Crimean Tatar-Urumcrim1256
  8. Crimeaiccrim1259
  9. Crimean Tatarcrim1257

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

KazakhsUyghursAzerbaijanisTatarsKyrgyz peopleBashkir peopleChuvash peopleUzbeksKumyk peopleTurkish peopleYakutsTuvansKarachaysSalar peopleGagauzBalkarsNogaisAltai peopleKhakass peopleTurkmensKryashensKarakalpaksShorsDolgans

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. 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…
  3. 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…
  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. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)