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Tat people

Таты · Q254222

language area per Glottologcensus counts
27,657
Azerbaijan, census 2019 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
28,335
sum of censuses in 4 countries, 2019-2021
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Azerbaijan: 27,657 people in the 2019 census.

Official figures exist for 4 countries; together they add up to 28,335. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2019-2021) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 575 people identified with the nationality "Таты" (Tat people)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 6 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Muslim Tat. 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.

Azerbaijan2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Tats» · [2]
27,657
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Таты» · [1]
575
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Tats» · [3]
57
Estonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Tats» · [4]
46
Sum across 4 countries28,335

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 339 · 59.0%Women 236 · 41.0%

Urban and rural

Urban 535 · 93.0%Rural 40 · 7.0%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Republic of Dagestan
214
Republic of Bashkortostan
91
Moscow (city)
33
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra
33
Saint Petersburg (city)
29
Moscow Oblast
24
Stavropol Krai
19
Republic of Tatarstan
17
Kabardino-Balkar Republic
7
Sverdlovsk Oblast
7

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

Languages and their lineage

Muslim Tat

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Indo-Iranianindo1320
  4. Iranian-Nuristaniiran1271
  5. Iranianiran1269
  6. Southwestern Iraniansout3157
  7. Middle-Modern Persianmidd1352
  8. Modern Southwestern Iranianmode1259
  9. Farsic-Caucasian Tatfars1254
  10. Caucasian Tatcauc1242
  11. Muslim Tatmusl1236

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. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Azerbaijan, 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. 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. 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…
  5. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)