In brief
In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 7,918 people identified with the nationality "Вьетнамцы" (Vietnamese people)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.
Rosstat also assigns 7 other self-designations to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).
Main language: Vietnamese. Glottolog classifies it in the Austroasiatic family.
Russia, 2021 census
Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers
Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1
Official figures from other countries
Figures from different countries do not add up: censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry). The type is shown on each figure.
Languages and their lineage
Vietnamese
- Austroasiaticaust1305
- Vieticviet1250
- Viet-Muongviet1251
- Vietnameseviet1252
People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.
Sources
- 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)
- National Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO). Press Release Preliminary results the 2019 Population and Housing census. https://www.nso.gov.vn/?p=9040
- Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)