Lipka Tatars
The 2002 census showed only 447 people declaring Tatar nationality. According to the 2011 census, there are 1916 Tatars in Poland (including 1251 people who declared composite national-ethnic identity, e.g. identify as both Polish and Tatar). In recent years, increasing oppressions from Alexander Lukashenko's authoritarian Government in Belarus and economic hardships prompts a larger number of Lipka Tatars to come to Poland.