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2011 Polish census

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The Polish census of 2011 (Polish: Narodowy Spis Powszechny 2011) was a census in Poland taken from 1 April to 30 June 2011.

Censuses in Poland are conducted every 10 years, the previous census was the 2002 Polish census. The next census was the 2021 Polish census.

Results

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Population by voivodeships

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Source:[1]

Voivodeship Population
total urban rural
Greater Poland 3,447,441 1,925,817 1,521,624
Kuyavian-Pomeranian 2,097,635 1,269,821 827,814
Lesser Poland 3,337,471 1,640,965 1,696,506
Łódź 2,538,677 1,621,763 916,914
Lower Silesian 2,915,241 2,037,736 877,505
Lublin 2,175,700 1,011,528 1,164,172
Lubusz 1,022,843 649,297 373,546
Masovian 5,268,660 3,381,717 1,886,943
Opole 1,016,212 532,217 483,995
Podkarpackie 2,127,286 881,665 1,245,621
Podlaskie 1,202,365 724,547 477,818
Pomeranian 2,276,174 1,498,272 777,902
Silesian 4,630,366 3,601,602 1,028,764
Świętokrzyskie 1,280,721 577,842 702,879
Warmian-Masurian 1,452,147 863,355 588,792
West Pomeranian 1,722,885 1,187,748 535,137
Poland 38,511,824 23,405,892 15,105,932

National/ethnic identity

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The Census included two questions regarding national and ethnic identity:

  • What is your nation? ("Jaka jest Pana/Pani narodowość?")[2] The census provided the following definition: "Nationality (national or ethnic affiliation) is a declared (based on subjective feeling) individual feature of the person, which expresses their emotional, cultural or genealogical relationship (due to the origin of parents) with a specific nation".[3]
  • Do you feel an affiliation with another nation or ethnic group? ("Czy odczuwa Pan/Pani przynależność także do innego narodu lub wspólnoty etnicznej?")
  • 93.8% of surveyed declared Polish ethnicity; 3,8% other and 2,4% gave no answer.
  • 99.7% of those surveyed declared Polish citizenship; 0.2% declared other citizenship.

Significant ethnic minorities

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Other ethnic groups in Poland include:

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
Slovaks 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 1,055 ~2,000 7,353
Bulgarian 1,112 ? 2,171
Armenians 1,082 ~3,000 ~3,000
Czechs 831 ~1,000 ~3,000
British 800 ~2,000 ~10,000
Tatars 495 ? 1,916

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Ludność. Stan i struktura demograficzno-społeczna. Narodowy Spis Powszechny Ludności i Mieszkań 2011 (in Polish). Warsaw: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. p. 141. ISBN 978-83-7027-521-1.
  2. ^ Note: In Polish, narodowość 'nationality' means the association of a person with a particular nation regardless of state; i.e., its meaning is closer to that of 'ethnicity'.
  3. ^ "UWAGI METODYCZNE" (Methodical Remarks for the 2011 Census) (retrieved January 2, 2018)
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