Ethnic Composition
Russian authorities periodically performed censuses. However, they reported strikingly different numbers:
| Year | Total | Lithuanians | Poles | Belarusians | Russians | Jews | Other | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1862 | 838,464 | 418,880 | 50% | 154,386 | 18% | 146,431 | 17% | 14,950 | 2% | 76,802 | 9% | 27,035 | 3% |
| 1865 | 891,715 | 210,273 | 24% | 154,386 | 17% | 418,289 | 47% | 27,845 | 3% | 76,802 | 9% | 4,120 | 0% |
| 1883 | 1,192,000 | 417,200 | 35% | 281,312 | 24% | 239,592 | 20% | - | 176,416 | 15% | 77,480 | 7% | |
| 1897 | 1,561,713 | 274,414 | 18% | 126,770 | 8% | 880,940 | 56% | 75,803 | 5% | 197,929 | 13% | 5,857 | 0% |
| 1909 | 1,550,057 | 231,848 | 15% | 188,931 | 12% | 570,351 | 37% | 408,817 | 26% | 146,066 | 9% | 4,094 | 0% |
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