Post by Jaga on May 7, 2022 12:43:22 GMT -7
I don't think we ever had a consistent thread about other minorities in Poland. I just saw that Kai posted info about Polish minority in Bosnia-Herzegowina, so lets just learn about things we may not know in Poland.
Here is some formal information. In the past, before WW II we had quite a lot of minorities, now we have less, still, it is good to know about it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_Poland#:~:text=There%20are%20presently%20three%20categories,regional%20linguistic%20minority%20(Kashubians).
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.[11] At the 2011 census, 1.44% of the 39 million inhabitants of Poland declared to be descendants 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 Belarusians (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.[12][13]
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:[14]
38,512,000 – Total population of Poland
36,157,000 – Only Polish ethnicity
951,000 – Nationality not specified
1,404,000 declared non-Polish ethnicity either as a first or as a second one; 842,000 of them declared non-Polish ethnicity 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 ethnicity); 802,000 declared non-Polish enthonationality as a second one (50% Silesian, 26% Kashubian, 8% German).
Here is some formal information. In the past, before WW II we had quite a lot of minorities, now we have less, still, it is good to know about it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_Poland#:~:text=There%20are%20presently%20three%20categories,regional%20linguistic%20minority%20(Kashubians).
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.[11] At the 2011 census, 1.44% of the 39 million inhabitants of Poland declared to be descendants 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 Belarusians (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.[12][13]
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:[14]
38,512,000 – Total population of Poland
36,157,000 – Only Polish ethnicity
951,000 – Nationality not specified
1,404,000 declared non-Polish ethnicity either as a first or as a second one; 842,000 of them declared non-Polish ethnicity 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 ethnicity); 802,000 declared non-Polish enthonationality as a second one (50% Silesian, 26% Kashubian, 8% German).