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Greeks

Греки · Q539051

language area per Glottologcensus counts
1,207,765
United States, census 2023 (ancestry (self-reported))
194,934
sum of censuses in 17 countries, 2001-2023
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in United States: 1,207,765 people in the 2023 census.

Official figures exist for 17 countries; together they add up to 194,934. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2001-2023) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 53,972 people identified with the nationality "Греки" (Greeks)1. That is 0.04% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 17 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Greek. 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.

United States2023 · ancestry (self-reported) · «Greek» · [2]
1,207,765
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [3]
91,548
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Греки» · [1]
53,972
Albania2023 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [4]
23,485
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [5]
11,890
Georgia2014 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [6]
5,544
Czechia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · usual residents; ethnicity voluntary; persons stating two ethnicities counted under both · [7]
4,077
Romania2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [8]
2,086
Belarus2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [9]
422
Armenia2022 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [10]
364
Estonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [11]
338
Moldova, Republic of2014 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [12]
322
North Macedonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [13]
294
Latvia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [14]
261
Lithuania2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [15]
134
Croatia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [16]
115
Slovenia2002 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [17]
54
Tajikistan2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Greek» · [18]
28
Sum across 17 countries194,934

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 28,242 · 52.3%Women 25,730 · 47.7%

Urban and rural

Urban 25,384 · 47.0%Rural 28,588 · 53.0%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Stavropol Krai
23,943
Krasnodar Krai
13,117
Republic of Crimea (as listed by Rosstat)
1,616
Moscow (city)
1,523
Rostov Oblast
1,146
Moscow Oblast
979
Republic of Adygea
926
Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
862
Sverdlovsk Oblast
799
Karachay-Cherkess Republic
704

Groups counted within this nationality

Urums12

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

Languages and their lineage

Greek

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Graeco-Phrygiangrae1234
  4. Greekgree1276

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

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  2. U.S. Census Bureau. ACS 2023 1-year, Table B04006 (variable B04006_044E, label Estimate!!Total:!!Greek). https://data.census.gov/api/access/data/table?id=ACSDT1Y2023.B04006&g=010XX00US
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  18. 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…
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