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

Source:^[1]

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.

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