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Khanty people

Ханты · Q476030

language area per Glottologcensus counts
31,467
Russia, census 2021
31,598
sum of censuses in 3 countries, 2001-2021
Uralic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Russia: 31,467 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 3 countries; together they add up to 31,598. 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), 31,467 people identified with the nationality "Ханты" (Khanty people)1. That is 0.02% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 1 other self-designation to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Kazym-Berezover-Suryskarer Khanty. Glottolog classifies it in the Uralic 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 · «Ханты» · [1]
31,467
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Khanty» · [2]
100
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Khanty» · [3]
31
Sum across 3 countries31,598

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex

Men 14,560 · 46.3%Women 16,907 · 53.7%

Urban and rural

Urban 11,863 · 37.7%Rural 19,604 · 62.3%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra
19,568
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
9,985
Tyumen Oblast (excl. autonomous okrugs)
689
Tomsk Oblast
495
Sverdlovsk Oblast
109
Komi Republic
42
Moscow (city)
38
Novosibirsk Oblast
37
Leningrad Oblast
36
Saint Petersburg (city)
36

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

Languages and their lineage

Kazym-Berezover-Suryskarer Khanty

  1. Uralicural1272
  2. Khantyickhan1279
  3. Northern Khantynort3264
  4. Kazym-Berezover-Suryskarer Khantykhan1273

Russian

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Balto-Slavicbalt1263
  4. Slavicslav1255
  5. East Slaviceast1426
  6. Russianruss1263

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

HungariansEstoniansMari peopleUdmurtsKomi peopleKomi-PermyaksErzyasNenetsKareliansMountain MariMansi peopleMokshasFinnsVepsiansSelkup peopleBesermyanNganasan peopleIngrian FinnsLivoniansSetosIzhoriansEnetsMeadow–Eastern Mari peopleVotes

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