Агентство Республики Каписью на 26,1% и составила 10098,6 тыс. человек. Увеличилась численность узбеков на 23,3%, составив 457,2 тыс. человек, уйгур – на 6%, составив 223,1 тыс. человек. Снизилась численность русских на 15,3%, составив 3797,0 тыс. человек; немцев – на 49,6%, составив 178,2 тыс. человек; украинцев – на 39,1%, составив 333,2 тыс. человек; татар – на 18,4%, составив 203,3 тыс. человек; других этносов – на 5,8%, составив 714,2 тыс. человек.
Touraj Atabaki, Sanjyot Mehendale (2004). Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora. p.31. The Uighurs, too, are Turkic Muslims, linguistically and culturally more closely related to the Uzbeks than the Kazakhs.
Gladney, Dru C. (5 May 2003). "China's Minorities: the Case of Xinjiang and the Uyghur People"(PDF). Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Working Group on Minorities: Ninth session. United Nations Commission on Human Rights. p.9. คลังข้อมูลเก่าเก็บจากแหล่งเดิม(PDF)เมื่อ 5 July 2020. สืบค้นเมื่อ 5 July 2020. Some Uyghur groups claim that there are upwards of 20 million Uyghur in China, and nearly 50 million Muslims, with little evidence to support those figures.
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"About Uyghurs". Uyghur American Association. เก็บจากแหล่งเดิมเมื่อ 19 June 2020. สืบค้นเมื่อ 5 July 2020. According to the latest Chinese census, there are about 12 million Uyghurs. However, Uyghur sources indicate that Uyghur population in East Turkistan is about 20 – 30 million.
"EAST TURKISTAN". World Uyghur Congress. เก็บจากแหล่งเดิมเมื่อ 19 May 2020. สืบค้นเมื่อ 5 July 2020. Uyghur sources put the real population of Uyghurs around 20 million."
Zuberi, Hena (18 June 2015). "Uyghurs in China: We Buried the Quran in Our Backyards". Muslim Matters. คลังข้อมูลเก่าเก็บจากแหล่งเดิมเมื่อ 18 May 2020. สืบค้นเมื่อ 5 July 2020. “There are 35 million of us,” he says, some in exile, others in the land of what is known to the world as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This number is hotly contested and rejected by the Chinese government's official census.
Hudayar, Salim (13 February 2017). "Contemporary Colonialism: the Uyghurs Versus China". Intercontinental Cry. เก็บจากแหล่งเดิมเมื่อ 30 May 2020. สืบค้นเมื่อ 5 July 2020. 'According to some Uyghur activists, the Uyghurs number around 35 million, however official Chinese statistics put them around 12 million, a far cry from what the indigenous Uyghurs claim.' 'Analyzing historical data from Russian, Turkish, Chinese, and Uyghur sources, Turkish historian Professor Dr. Mehmet Saray expressed in his book Doğu Türkistan Türkleri Tarihi [The History of Eastern Turkistan's Turks] that the Uyghurs numbered roughly 24 million within East Turkistan as of 2010.'
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