Editing Chechnya (section)

===Ethnic groups===
(In the territory of modern Chechnya)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/rnchechenia.html |title=НАСЕЛЕНИЕ ЧЕЧНИ |publisher=Ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|failed=y|date=April 2013}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! rowspan="2" | Ethnic<br />group
! colspan="2" | 1926 Census
! colspan="2" | 1939 Census<sup>2</sup>
! colspan="2" | 1959 Census<sup>2</sup>
! colspan="2" | 1970 Census
! colspan="2" | 1979 Census
! colspan="2" | 1989 Census
! colspan="2" | 2002 Census
! colspan="2" | 2010 Census
! colspan="2" | 2021 Census<sup>1</sup>
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! Number
!%
! Number
!%
! Number
!%
! Number
!%
! Number
!%
! Number
!%
! Number
!%
! Number
!%
! Number
!%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Chechen people|Chechens]]
| 293,298
| 67.3%
| 360,889
| 58.0%
| 238,331
| 39.7%
| 499,962
| 54.7%
| 602,223
| 60.1%
| 715,306
| 66.0%
| 1,031,647
| 93.5%
| 1,206,551
| 95.3%
| 1,456,792
| 96.4%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Russians]]
| 103,271
| 23.5%
| 213,354
| 34.3%
| 296,794
| 49.4%
| 327,701
| 35.8%
| 307,079
| 30.6%
| 269,130
| 24.8%
| 40,645
| 3.7%
| 24,382
| 1.9%
| 18,225
| 1.2%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Kumyks]]
| 2,217
| 0.5%
| 3,575
| 0.6%
|
|
| 6,865
| 0.8%
| 7,808
| 0.8%
| 9,591
| 0.9%
| 8,883
| 0.8%
| 12,221
| 1.0%
| 12,184
| 0.8%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Caucasian Avars|Avars]]
| 830
| 0.2%
| 2,906
| 0.5%
|
|
| 4,196
| 0.5%
| 4,793
| 0.5%
| 6,035
| 0.6%
| 4,133
| 0.4%
| 4,864
| 0.4%
| 4,079
| 0.3%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Nogais]]
| 162
| 0.0%
| 1,302
| 0.2%
|
|
| 5,503
| 0.6%
| 6,079
| 0.6%
| 6,885
| 0.6%
| 3,572
| 0.3%
| 3,444
| 0.3%
| 2,819
| 0.2%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Ingush people|Ingush]]
| 798
| 0.2%
| 4,338
| 0.7%
| 3,639
| 0.6%
| 14,543
| 1.6%
| 20,855
| 2.1%
| 25,136
| 2.3%
| 2,914
| 0.3%
| 1,296
| 0.1%
| 1,100
| 0.1%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Ukrainians]]
| 11,474
| 2.6%
| 8,614
| 1.4%
| 11,947
| 2.0%
| 11,608
| 1.3%
| 11,334
| 1.1%
| 11,884
| 1.1%
| 829
| 0.1%
| rowspan="3" | 13,716
| rowspan="3" | 1.1%
| rowspan="3" | 15,625
| rowspan="3" | 1.0%
|-
| align="left" | [[Armenians]]
| 5,978
| 1.4%
| 8,396
| 1.3%
| 12,136
| 2.0%
| 13,948
| 1.5%
| 14,438
| 1.4%
| 14,666
| 1.4%
| 424
| 0.0%
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Others
| 18,840
| 4.13%
| 18,646
| 3.0%
| 37,550
| 6.3%
| 30,057
| 3.3%
| 27,621
| 2.8%
| 25,800
| 2.4%
| 10,639
| 1.0%
|-
| colspan="19" style="text-align:left;" | <sup>1</sup> <small>2,515 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.</small><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.perepis-2010.ru/news/detail.php?ID=6936 |title=Перепись-2010: русских становится больше |publisher=Perepis-2010.ru |date=19 December 2011 |access-date=19 April 2013 |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225111852/http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/perepis_itogi1612.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<sup>2</sup> <small>Practically all{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} [[Chechen people|Chechen]] and [[Ingush people]] were deported to [[Central Asia]] in 1944. They were, however, allowed to return to the [[Northern Caucasus]] in 1957 by [[Nikita Khrushchev]]. See [[Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush]].</small>
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