Demography
At the Polish census of 2002, 96.7% of the people of Poland claimed Polish nationality, and 97.8% declare that they speak Polish at home. At the 2011 census, 1,44% of the 39 million inhabitants of Poland declared to be descendents of another single ancestry than Polish. That number includes 418,000 who declared to be Silesians as a national-ethnic identification (362,000 as single ethnicity and 391,000 a second ethnicity) and 17,000 Kashubians (16,000 as single ethnicity). Recognized minorities numbered 0,3% of the population: 49,000 Germans (26,000 single ethnicity), 36,000 Ukrainians (26,000 single ethnicity), 7,000 Lemkos (5,000 single ethnicity), 37,000 Belarussians (31,000 single ethnicity), 12,000 Roma people (9,000 single ethnicity), 8,000 Russians (5,000 single ethnicity). 0,2% of the population are foreign citizens.
2002 census:
- 38,230,080 - Total population of Poland
- 36,983,720 - Polish
- 774,885 - Nationality not specified
- 471,475 - Non-Polish, or multi-ethnic
Polish census of 2011:
- 38,512,000 - Total population of Poland
- 36,157,000 - Only Polish ethnonationality
- 951,000 - Nationality not specified
- 1,404,000 declared non-Polish ethnonationality either as a first or as a second one; 842,000 of them declared non-Polish ethnonationality together with Polish one (52% of Silesians, 93% of Kashubians, 46% of Germans, 40% of Ukrainians); 640,000 declared non-Polish nationality as a first one (562,000 declared only non-Polish ethnonationality); 802,000 declared non-Polish enthonationality as a second one (50% Silesian, 26% Kashubian, 8% German).
| Ethnicity | 2002 | 2011 (1st declared ethnonationality) |
2011 Total incl. 2nd declared ethn. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silesians | 173,153 | 418,000 | 817,000 |
| Germans | 152,897 | 59,000 | 126,000 |
| Belarusians | 48,737 | 36,000 | 46,000 |
| Ukrainians | 30,957 | 37,000 | 49,000 |
| Roma | 12,855 | 12,000 | 16,000 |
| Russians | 6,103 | 8,000 | 13,000 |
| Lemkos | 5,863 | 7,000 | 10,000 |
| Lithuanians | 5,846 | 5,000 | 8,000 |
| Kashubians | 5,062 | 17,000 | 229,000 |
| Slovakians | 2,001 | 2,000 | 3,000 |
| Vietnamese | 1,808 | 3,000 | 4,000 |
| French | 1,633 | 1,000 | 7,000 |
| American | 1,541 | 1,000 | 11,000 |
| Greek | 1,404 | 1,000 | 3,000 |
| Italian | 1,367 | 2,000 | 8,000 |
| Jews | 1,133 | 2,000 | 7,000 |
| Bulgarian | 1,112 | ? | ? |
| Armenians | 1,082 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| Czechs | 831 | 1,000 | 3,000 |
| British | 800 | 2,000 | 10,000 |
| Tatars | 495 | ? | ? |
Read more about this topic: Ethnic Groups In Poland