page_title: Russian diaspora
section_title: Former USSR
hierarchical_section_title: Russian diaspora / Statistics / Former USSR
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a map of the ethnic Russian population in the Soviet Union based on the last census performed in each country there. A source for a large amount of the info on this map is this website: http://pop-stat.mashke.org The scale for this map is: &#160;&#160; 90.0%-100.0% &#160;&#160; 80.0%-89.9% &#160;&#160; 65.0%-79.9% &#160;&#160; 50.0%-64.9% &#160;&#160; 35.0%-49.9% &#160;&#160; 20.0%-34.9% &#160;&#160; 10.0%-19.9% &#160;&#160; 5.0%-9.9% &#160;&#160; 2.0%-4.9% &#160;&#160; 0.0%-1.9%
context_page_description: The Russian diaspora is the global community of ethnic Russians. The Russian-speaking diaspora are the people for whom Russian language is the native language, regardless of whether they are ethnic Russians or, for example, Belarusians, Tatars, or Jews.
  The number of ethnic Russians living outside the Russian Federation is estimated at roughly between 20 and 30 million people, the majority of them in countries of the Former Soviet Union; about 30 million native speakers of Russian are estimated to live outside the Russian Federation.
  The largest overseas community is found in the United States, estimated at some 3.1 million people. The next largest communities of Russian speakers outside the former Soviet Union are found in Germany and in Israel, both of unknown size but estimated at around 1.2 million people in Germany and around 1,000,000 in Israel. In addition, in Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, The United Kingdom, New Zealand, Paraguay and Venezuela, several hundred thousand citizens each identify as being of at least partial Russian descent.
context_section_description: Today the largest ethnic Russian diasporas outside of Russia exist in former Soviet states such as Ukraine (about 8 million), Kazakhstan  (3,644,529 / 20.61%) 2016, Belarus (about 1.2 million), Latvia (about 620,000), Uzbekistan (about 650, 000) and Kyrgyzstan (about 600,000).
  The situation faced by ethnic Russian diasporas varied widely. In Belarus there was  no perceivable change in status. While in Estonia and Latvia they were labelled foreigners or non-citizens if none of their ancestors had been a citizen of these countries before Soviet occupation and if they did not request Russian Federation citizenship during the period it was available.
caption: Ethnic Russians in former Soviet Union states according to the most recent census
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