2011 Polish census

The Polish census of 2011 (Polish: Narodowy Spis Powszechny 2011) was a census in Poland taken from 1 April to 30 June 2011.

Censuses in Poland are conducted every 10 years, the previous census was the 2002 Polish census. The next census was the 2021 Polish census.

Results

Population by voivodeships

Source:^[1]

Voivodeship	Population
	total	urban	rural
Greater Poland	3,447,441	1,925,817	1,521,624
Kuyavian-Pomeranian	2,097,635	1,269,821	827,814
Lesser Poland	3,337,471	1,640,965	1,696,506
Łódź	2,538,677	1,621,763	916,914
Lower Silesian	2,915,241	2,037,736	877,505
Lublin	2,175,700	1,011,528	1,164,172
Lubusz	1,022,843	649,297	373,546
Masovian	5,268,660	3,381,717	1,886,943
Opole	1,016,212	532,217	483,995
Podkarpackie	2,127,286	881,665	1,245,621
Podlaskie	1,202,365	724,547	477,818
Pomeranian	2,276,174	1,498,272	777,902
Silesian	4,630,366	3,601,602	1,028,764
Świętokrzyskie	1,280,721	577,842	702,879
Warmian-Masurian	1,452,147	863,355	588,792
West Pomeranian	1,722,885	1,187,748	535,137
Poland	38,511,824	23,405,892	15,105,932

National/ethnic identity

The Census included two questions regarding national and ethnic identity:

• What is your nation? ("Jaka jest Pana/Pani narodowość?")^[2] The census provided the following definition: "Nationality (national or ethnic affiliation) is a declared (based on subjective feeling) individual feature of the person, which expresses their emotional, cultural or genealogical relationship (due to the origin of parents) with a specific nation".^[3]
• Do you feel an affiliation with another nation or ethnic group? ("Czy odczuwa Pan/Pani przynależność także do innego narodu lub wspólnoty etnicznej?")

• 93.8% of surveyed declared Polish ethnicity; 3,8% other and 2,4% gave no answer.
• 99.7% of those surveyed declared Polish citizenship; 0.2% declared other citizenship.

Significant ethnic minorities

Other ethnic groups in Poland include:

Ethnicity	2002	2011 (1st declared ethnonationality)	2011 Total incl. 2nd declared ethn.
Silesians	173,153	~418,000	~817,000
Germans	152,897	~59,000	~126,000
Belarusians	48,737	~36,000	~46,000
Ukrainians	30,957	~37,000	~49,000
Roma	12,855	~12,000	~16,000
Russians	6,103	~8,000	~13,000
Lemkos	5,863	~7,000	~10,000
Lithuanians	5,846	~5,000	~8,000
Kashubians	5,062	~17,000	~229,000
Slovaks	2,001	~2,000	~3,000
Vietnamese	1,808	~3,000	~4,000
French	1,633	~1,000	~7,000
American	1,541	~1,000	~11,000
Greek	1,404	~1,000	~3,000
Italian	1,367	~2,000	~8,000
Jews	1,055	~2,000	7,353
Bulgarian	1,112	?	2,171
Armenians	1,082	~3,000	~3,000
Czechs	831	~1,000	~3,000
British	800	~2,000	~10,000
Tatars	495	?	1,916

See also

• Demographics of Poland