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Germans

Немцы · Q42884

language area per Glottologcensus counts
195,256
in Russia, 2021 census
71,036,222
Germany, 2025 (citizenship)
40,502,214
United States, 2023 (ancestry (self-reported))

In brief

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 195,256 people identified with the nationality "Немцы" (Germans)1. That is 0.15% 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: German. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Russia, 2021 census

Sex

Men 93,097 · 47.7%Women 102,159 · 52.3%

Urban and rural

Urban 108,226 · 55.4%Rural 87,030 · 44.6%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Omsk Oblast
29,298
Altai Krai
25,361
Novosibirsk Oblast
15,997
Kemerovo Oblast - Kuzbass
10,132
Chelyabinsk Oblast
9,041
Krasnoyarsk Krai
8,936
Sverdlovsk Oblast
7,165
Tyumen Oblast (excl. autonomous okrugs)
6,966
Orenburg Oblast
6,258
Krasnodar Krai
5,678

Groups counted within this nationality

Russian Mennonite5

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

Official figures from other countries

Figures from different countries do not add up: censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry). The type is shown on each figure.

Germany · 2025
71,036,222
Category as printed: «Deutsche»citizenship
[2] Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)
United States · 2023
40,502,214
Category as printed: «German»ancestry (self-reported)
[3] U.S. Census Bureau

Languages and their lineage

German

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Germanicgerm1287
  4. Northwest Germanicnort3152
  5. West Germanicwest2793
  6. High Germanhigh1289
  7. Upper Germanhigh1286
  8. Middle-Modern High Germanmidd1349
  9. Modern High Germanmode1258
  10. Upper Franconianuppe1464
  11. Global Germanglob1243
  12. Germanstan1295

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

RussiansMarathiSpaniardsMexicansEnglishIrishAmericansItaliansRomaniansNepali (Khas-Arya)DutchBelarusiansCzechsScotsSerbsBulgariansCubansBraziliansWelshGreeksMacedoniansArmeniansUkrainiansSlovaks

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. Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis). Bevölkerung nach Geschlecht und Staatsangehörigkeit (Fortschreibung auf Basis Zensus 2022). https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Bevoelkerungsstand/Tabe…
  3. U.S. Census Bureau. ACS 2023 1-year, Table B04006 (variable B04006_042E, label Estimate!!Total:!!German). https://data.census.gov/api/access/data/table?id=ACSDT1Y2023.B04006&g=010XX00US
  4. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)