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Czechs

Чехи · Q170217

language area per Glottologcensus counts
6,033,014
Czechia, census 2021 (ethnicity / nationality)
6,081,054
sum of censuses in 14 countries, 2001-2022
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Czechia: 6,033,014 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 14 countries; together they add up to 6,081,054. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2001-2022) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 1,214 people identified with the nationality "Чехи" (Czechs)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 2 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Czech. 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.

Czechia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Czech (one ethnicity listed)» · [2]
6,033,014
United States2023 · ancestry (self-reported) · «Czech» · [3]
1,181,506
Slovakia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [4]
28,996
Croatia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [5]
7,862
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [6]
5,917
Romania2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [7]
1,576
Serbia2022 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [8]
1,317
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Чехи» · [1]
1,214
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [9]
410
Slovenia2002 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [10]
273
Moldova, Republic of2014 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [11]
230
Belarus2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [12]
98
Latvia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [13]
90
North Macedonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [14]
30
Lithuania2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Czech» · [15]
27
Sum across 14 countries6,081,054

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 644 · 53.0%Women 570 · 47.0%

Urban and rural

Urban 829 · 68.3%Rural 385 · 31.7%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Republic of Crimea (as listed by Rosstat)
211
Moscow (city)
175
Krasnodar Krai
135
Moscow Oblast
70
Omsk Oblast
59
Saint Petersburg (city)
51
Orenburg Oblast
40
Sverdlovsk Oblast
31
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra
30
Republic of Adygea
29

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

Languages and their lineage

Czech

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Balto-Slavicbalt1263
  4. Slavicslav1255
  5. West Slavicwest2792
  6. Czech-Slovakczec1260
  7. Czechczec1258

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)DutchBelarusiansTajiksScotsSerbsBulgariansSlovaksArmeniansCubansLithuaniansAlbanians

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. Czech Statistical Office. Census 2021 - Ethnicity. https://scitani.gov.cz/ethnicity
  3. U.S. Census Bureau. ACS 2023 1-year, Table B04006 (variable B04006_031E, label Estimate!!Total:!!Czech). https://data.census.gov/api/access/data/table?id=ACSDT1Y2023.B04006&g=010XX00US
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