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Rusyns

Русины · Q140420

language area per Glottologcensus counts
11,483
Serbia, census 2022 (ethnicity / nationality)
12,913
sum of censuses in 3 countries, 2021-2022
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Serbia: 11,483 people in the 2022 census.

Official figures exist for 3 countries; together they add up to 12,913. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2021-2022) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 596 people identified with the nationality "Русины" (Rusyns)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 8 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Pannonian Ruthenian. 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.

Serbia2022 · ethnicity / nationality · «Rusini» · [2]
11,483
Romania2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Ruthenian» · [3]
834
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Русины» · [1]
596
Sum across 3 countries12,913

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 375 · 62.9%Women 221 · 37.1%

Urban and rural

Urban 482 · 80.9%Rural 114 · 19.1%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Moscow (city)
68
Moscow Oblast
56
Krasnodar Krai
34
Saint Petersburg (city)
30
Republic of Crimea (as listed by Rosstat)
27
Sverdlovsk Oblast
18
Novosibirsk Oblast
17
Rostov Oblast
15
Komi Republic
13
Perm Krai
13

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

Languages and their lineage

Pannonian Ruthenian

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Balto-Slavicbalt1263
  4. Slavicslav1255
  5. East Slaviceast1426
  6. Ukrainian-Rusynukra1257
  7. Rusynrusy1239
  8. Pannonian Ruthenianpann1240

Ukrainian

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Balto-Slavicbalt1263
  4. Slavicslav1255
  5. East Slaviceast1426
  6. Ukrainian-Rusynukra1257
  7. Ukrainianukra1253

Slovak

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Balto-Slavicbalt1263
  4. Slavicslav1255
  5. West Slavicwest2792
  6. Czech-Slovakczec1260
  7. Slovakslov1269

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

  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. Републички завод за статистику / Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Коначни резултати Пописа становништва, домаћинстава и станова 2022 (Final results of the 2022 Census), 28.04.2023; Book 1 'Национална припадност' https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2023/Pdf/G20234001.pdf. https://www.stat.gov.rs/vesti/20230428-konacnirezpopisa/
  3. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Geographia (peer-reviewed; data of Institutul Național de Statistică, Romania). Tofan G.B., Niță A. 'The National Structure of the Romanian Population at the 1st December 2021 Census', Studia UBB Geographia LXX(1), 2025, pp. 39-64, Table 2 (reproduces INS final census data, stable population). https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbgeographia/article/download/9437/9118/2767…
  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)