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Jewish people

Евреи · Q7325

language area per Glottologcensus counts
103,878
Ukraine, census 2001 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
222,980
sum of censuses in 15 countries, 2001-2021
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Ukraine: 103,878 people in the 2001 census.

Official figures exist for 15 countries; together they add up to 222,980. 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), 82,644 people identified with the nationality "Евреи" (Jewish people)1. That is 0.06% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 19 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Modern Hebrew. Glottolog classifies it in the Afro-Asiatic 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.

Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [2]
103,878
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Евреи» · [1]
82,644
Belarus2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [3]
13,705
Azerbaijan2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [4]
5,094
Latvia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [5]
4,372
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [6]
4,064
Romania2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [7]
2,378
Lithuania2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [8]
2,256
Estonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [9]
1,852
Moldova, Republic of2014 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [10]
1,601
Slovakia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [11]
596
Croatia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [12]
410
North Macedonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [13]
66
Tajikistan2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [14]
36
Slovenia2002 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jewish» · [15]
28
Sum across 15 countries222,980

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 43,985 · 53.2%Women 38,659 · 46.8%

Urban and rural

Urban 78,830 · 95.4%Rural 3,814 · 4.6%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Moscow (city)
28,014
Saint Petersburg (city)
9,205
Moscow Oblast
5,090
Sverdlovsk Oblast
2,348
Samara Oblast
2,260
Republic of Tatarstan
1,791
Rostov Oblast
1,686
Chelyabinsk Oblast
1,675
Republic of Crimea (as listed by Rosstat)
1,655
Krasnodar Krai
1,607

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

Languages and their lineage

Modern Hebrew

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Semiticsemi1276
  3. West Semiticwest2786
  4. Central Semiticcent2236
  5. Northwest Semiticnort3165
  6. Canaanitecana1267
  7. Hebrewichebr1246
  8. Modern Hebrewhebr1245

Ladino

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Italicital1284
  4. Latino-Faliscanlati1262
  5. Latiniclati1263
  6. Imperial Latinimpe1234
  7. Romanceroma1334
  8. Italo-Western Romanceital1285
  9. Western Romancewest2813
  10. Shifted Western Romanceshif1234
  11. Southwestern Shifted Romancesout3183
  12. West Ibero-Romancewest2838
  13. Castiliccast1243
  14. South Castilicsout3200
  15. Ladinoladi1251

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

EgyptiansMoroccansOromoAmharaSaudisJordaniansHausaLibyansSomalisTigray peopleOmanisGurage peoplePalestiniansAfar peopleTuareg AmazighsEmiratisBahrainisQatarisArabsIraqisAssyriansLebaneseAlgeriansMauritanians

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)
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