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Lithuanians

Литовцы · Q186192

language area per Glottologcensus counts
2,378,118
Lithuania, census 2021 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
2,433,216
sum of censuses in 9 countries, 2001-2021
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Lithuania: 2,378,118 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 9 countries; together they add up to 2,433,216. 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), 13,230 people identified with the nationality "Литовцы" (Lithuanians)1. That is 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 4 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Lithuanian. 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.

Lithuania2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lithuanian» · [2]
2,378,118
Latvia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lithuanian» · [3]
21,517
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Литовцы» · [1]
13,230
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lithuanian» · [4]
7,207
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lithuanian» · [5]
5,531
Belarus2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lithuanian» · [6]
5,287
Estonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lithuanian» · [7]
2,097
Moldova, Republic of2014 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lithuanian» · [8]
218
Tajikistan2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lithuanian» · [9]
11
Sum across 9 countries2,433,216

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 6,762 · 51.1%Women 6,468 · 48.9%

Urban and rural

Urban 8,895 · 67.2%Rural 4,335 · 32.8%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Kaliningrad Oblast
4,279
Moscow (city)
761
Saint Petersburg (city)
625
Krasnoyarsk Krai
485
Moscow Oblast
401
Republic of Karelia
347
Irkutsk Oblast
347
Komi Republic
311
Krasnodar Krai
278
Sverdlovsk Oblast
223

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

Languages and their lineage

Lithuanian

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Balto-Slavicbalt1263
  4. Eastern Balticeast2280
  5. Lithuanianlith1251

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)DutchBelarusiansTajiksCzechsScotsSerbsBulgariansSlovaksArmeniansCubansAlbanians

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. Lithuania, Census - de jure - 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. Latvia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  4. 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…
  5. 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…
  6. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Belarus, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  7. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Estonia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  8. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Republic of Moldova, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  9. 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…
  10. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)