Orenburg Oblast - Demographics

Demographics

Population: 2,033,072 (2010 Census); 2,179,551 (2002 Census); 2,174,459 (1989 Census).

According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition of the oblast was as follows:

• Russians: 75.9%
• Tatars: 7.6%
• Kazakhs: 6%
• Ukrainians: 2.5%
• Bashkirs: 2.3%
• Mordvinians: 1.9%
• Germans: 0.6%
• Chuvash: 0.6%
• Belarusians: 0.3%
• Azeris: 0.4%
• other groups, none more than 0.2% of the population
• 30,449 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.