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Table 11. Ethnic structure of the population on the present territory of Transcarpathia (1880..1989)
Year |
Total population |
Ruthenians, Ukrainians |
Russians |
Hungarians |
Germans |
Ethnic Jews |
Rumanians |
Slovaks, Czechs |
Others |
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number |
% |
number |
% |
number |
% |
number |
% |
number |
% |
number |
% |
number |
% |
number |
% |
number |
% |
|
1880 | 408,971 | 100.0 | 244,742 | 59.8 | .. | .. | 105,343 | 25.7 | 31,745 | 7.8 | .. | .. | 16,713 | 4.1 | 8,611 | 2.1 | 1,817 | 0.5 |
1910 | 605,942 | 100.0 | 330,010 | 54.5 | .. | .. | 185,433 | 30.6 | 64,257 | 10.6 | .. | .. | 11,668 | 1.9 | 6,346 | 1.0 | 8,228 | 1.4 |
1921 | 619,304 | 100.0 | 372,523 | 60.1 | .. | .. | 111,052 | 17.9 | .. | .. | 80,132 | 12.9 | .. | .. | 19,284 | 3.1 | 36,313 | 6.0 |
1930 | 733,956 | 100.0 | 447,127 | 60.9 | .. | .. | 116,548 | 15.9 | 13,273 | 1.8 | 91,839 | 12.5 | .. | .. | 34,032 | 4.6 | 31,101 | 4.3 |
1941 | 854,772 | 100.0 | 502,329 | 58.9 | .. | .. | 233,840 | 27.3 | 13,251 | 1.5 | 78,727 | 9.2 | 15,602 | 1.8 | 6,853 | 0.8 | 4,170 | 0.5 |
1946 | 758,700 | 100.0 | 624,400 | 82.3 | 19,000 | 2.5 | 66,000 | 8.7 | 10,600 | 1.4 | 23,500 | 3.1 | 12,100 | 1.6 | 1,500 | 0.2 | 1,600 | 0.1 |
1950 | 807,400 | 100.0 | 588,600 | 72.9 | 23,400 | 2.9 | 139,700 | 17.3 | 11,400 | 1.5 | 24,300 | 3.2 | 12,900 | 1.6 | 1,600 | 0.2 | 5,500 | 0.4 |
1959 | 920,173 | 100.0 | 686,464 | 74.6 | 29.599 | 3.2 | 146,247 | 15.9 | 3,504 | 0.4 | 12,169 | 1.3 | 18,346 | 2.0 | 13,253 | 1.4 | 10,591 | 1.2 |
1970 | 1,056,799 | 100.0 | 808,131 | 76.5 | 35.189 | 3.3 | 151,949 | 14.4 | 4,230 | 0.4 | 10,857 | 1.0 | 23,454 | 2.2 | 10,294 | 1.0 | 12,695 | 1.2 |
1979 | 1,155,759 | 100.0 | 898,606 | 77.8 | 42,713 | 3.7 | 158,446 | 13.7 | 3,746 | 0.3 | 3,848 | 0.3 | 27,155 | 2.3 | 8,914 | 0.8 | 12,331 | 1.1 |
1989 | 1,245,618 | 100.0 | 976,749 | 78.4 | 49,456 | 4.0 | 155,711 | 12.5 | 3,478 | 0.3 | 2,639 | 0.2 | 29,485 | 2.4 | 7,845 | 0.6 | 20,255 | 1.6 |
Sources: 1880, 1910, 1941: Hungarian census data (mother/native tongue), 1921, 1930: Czechoslovakian census data (ethnicity), 1946, 1950: Szabó L. (1993), 1959, 1979, 1989: Soviet census data (ethnicity)
Remark: The data between 1880 and 1941 for the present territory of Transcarpathia were calculated by K.Kocsis.
Karoly Kocsis and Eszter Kocsis-Hodosi : Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin |