Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Ethnic groups
According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition was: Russian 52.5% Chukchi 26.7% Ukrainian 6% Yupik 3.2% Even 2.9% Chuvan 1.9% Belarusians 0.96% Yukaghir 0.4% other groups of less than one hundred persons each Historical figures are given below: Ethnographic maps shows the Yupik peoples as the indigenous population of some villages near Provideniya, Chuvans in the Chuvanskoye village some 100 km west of Markovo, the Evens in some inland areas, and the Chukchi throughout the rest of the region.

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Section Title: Ethnic groups
Table Section Text: According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition was: Russian 52.5% Chukchi 26.7% Ukrainian 6% Yupik 3.2% Even 2.9% Chuvan 1.9% Belarusians 0.96% Yukaghir 0.4% other groups of less than one hundred persons each Historical figures are given below: Ethnographic maps shows the Yupik peoples as the indigenous population of some villages near Provideniya, Chuvans in the Chuvanskoye village some 100 km west of Markovo, the Evens in some inland areas, and the Chukchi throughout the rest of the region.

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

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

Chukchis	12,111	56.2%	9,975	21.4%	11,001	10.9%	11,292	8.1%	11,914	7.3%	12,622	23.5%	12,772	26.7%

Chuvans	944	0.6%	951	1.8%	897	1.9%

Yupik	800	3.7%	1,064	2.3%	1,149	1.1%	1,278	0.9%	1,452	0.9%	1,534	2.9%	1,529	3.2%

Evens	817	3.8%	820	1.8%	1,061	1.0%	969	0.7%	1,336	0.8%	1,407	2.6%	1,392	2.9%

Russians	5,183	24.1%	28,318	60.7%	70,531	69.7%	96,424	68.9%	108,297	66.1%	27,918	51.9%	25,068	52.5%

Ukrainians	571	2.7%	3,543	7.6%	10,393	10.3%	20,122	14.4%	27,600	16.8%	4,960	9.2%	2,869	6.0%

Others	2,055	9.5%	2,969	6.4%	7,049	7.0%	9,859	7.0%	12,391	7.6%	4,432	8.2%	2,961	6.2%

All	21,537	46,689	101,194	139,944	163,934	53,824	50,526

1 2,770 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.

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Chukotka had a population of 50,526 in 2010.

final_sentence: Chukotka had a population of 50,526 in 2010.