Chechnya
Ethnic groups
(in the territory of modern Chechnya)

Chechnya

Section Title: Ethnic groups
Table Section Text: (in the territory of modern Chechnya)

Ethnic group	1926 Census	1939 Census2	1959 Census2	1970 Census	1979 Census	1989 Census	2002 Census	2010 Census1

Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%

Chechens	293,298	67.3%	360,889	58.0%	238,331	39.7%	499,962	54.7%	602,223	60.1%	715,306	66.0%	1,031,647	93.5%	1,206,551	95.3%

Russians	103,271	23.5%	213,354	34.3%	296,794	49.4%	327,701	35.8%	307,079	30.6%	269,130	24.8%	40,645	3.7%	24,382	1.9%

Kumyks	2,217	0.5%	3,575	0,6%	6,865	0.8%	7,808	0.8%	9,591	0.9%	8,883	0.8%	12,221	1.0%

Avars	830	0.2%	2,906	0.5%	4,196	0.5%	4,793	0.5%	6,035	0.6%	4,133	0.4%	4,864	0.4%

Nogays	162	0.0%	1,302	0.2%	5,503	0.6%	6,079	0.6%	6,885	0.6%	3,572	0.3%	3,444	0.3%

Ingushes	798	0.2%	4,338	0.7%	3,639	0.6%	14,543	1.6%	20,855	2.1%	25,136	2.3%	2,914	0.3%	1,296	0.1%

Ukrainians	11,474	2.6%	8,614	1.4%	11,947	2.0%	11,608	1.3%	11,334	1.1%	11,884	1.1%	829	0.1%	13,716	1.1%

Armenians	5,978	1.4%	8,396	1.3%	12,136	2.0%	13,948	1.5%	14,438	1.4%	14,666	1.4%	424	0.0%

Others	18,840	4.13%	18,646	3.0%	37,550	6.3%	30,057	3.3%	27,621	2.8%	25,800	2.4%	10,639	1.0%

1 2,515 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.|2 Note that practically all Chechen and Ingush people were deported to Central Asia or killed in 1944.

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Chechnya includes Russians (24,382, or 1.9%), Kumyks (12,221, or 1%) and Ingush (1,296 or 0.1%).

final_sentence: Chechnya includes Russians (24,382, or 1.9%), Kumyks (12,221, or 1%) and Ingush (1,296 or 0.1%).