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Udmurts

Удмурты · Q184922

language area per Glottologcensus counts
386,465
Russia, census 2021
398,570
sum of censuses in 9 countries, 2001-2021
Uralic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Russia: 386,465 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 9 countries; together they add up to 398,570. 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), 386,465 people identified with the nationality "Удмурты" (Udmurts)1. That is 0.30% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 5 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Udmurt. 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 · «Удмурты» · [1]
386,465
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Udmurt» · [2]
6,607
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Udmurt» · [3]
4,712
Belarus2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Udmurt» · [4]
246
Latvia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Udmurt» · [5]
190
Estonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Udmurt» · [6]
180
Moldova, Republic of2014 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Udmurt» · [7]
91
Lithuania2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Udmurt» · [8]
67
Tajikistan2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Udmurt» · [9]
12
Sum across 9 countries398,570

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex

Men 171,974 · 44.5%Women 214,491 · 55.5%

Urban and rural

Urban 133,977 · 34.7%Rural 252,488 · 65.3%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Udmurt Republic
299,874
Republic of Tatarstan
21,327
Republic of Bashkortostan
17,149
Perm Krai
11,808
Kirov Oblast
7,698
Sverdlovsk Oblast
6,108
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra
1,725
Mari El Republic
1,348
Moscow Oblast
1,109
Chelyabinsk Oblast
1,089

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

Languages and their lineage

Udmurt

  1. Uralicural1272
  2. Permianperm1256
  3. Udmurtudmu1245

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 peopleKomi peopleKomi-PermyaksErzyasNenetsKareliansKhanty peopleMountain 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. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. 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…
  5. 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…
  6. 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…
  7. 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…
  8. 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…
  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)