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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

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.

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