Census Results
Total population (including Bender): 555,347 (percentages below refer to this first figure)
Total population (excluding Bender): 450,337
- Moldovans: 31.9%
- Russians: 30.3%
- Ukrainians: 28.8%
- Bulgarians: 2%
- Poles: 2%
- Gagauz: 1.5%
- Jews: 1.3%
- Belarusians: 1%
- Germans: 0.6%
- Others: 0.5%
Preliminary data, as shown here, was released forty days after the completion of the census. Final and more detailed results were released with a delay of nearly two years.
Compared with the 1989 census, the population decreased by 18% due to war, natural decrease and economically motivated emigration.
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