Editing Kashubians (section)

===Population===
[[File:Dzewus w kaszebsczich ruchnach.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Kashubian regional dress]]

The total number of Kashubians (Pomeranians) varies depending on one's definition. A common estimate is that over 500,000 people in Poland are of the Kashubian ethnicity, the estimates range from ca. 500,000<ref name="Grabowska2">{{cite web|url=http://www.ies.ee/iesp/grabowska.pdf|title=The Institute for European Studies, Ethnological institute of UW|access-date=16 August 2012|archive-date=20 March 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030320014218/http://www.ies.ee/iesp/grabowska.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> to ca. 567,000.<ref name="Kaschuben heute">{{cite web|url=http://instytutkaszubski.republika.pl/pdfy/angielski.pdf|title=The Kashubs Today: Culture-Language-Identity|date=2007|pages=8–9|language=en|access-date=9 April 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304134213/http://instytutkaszubski.republika.pl/pdfy/angielski.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="polen-analysen"/> In the Polish census of 2002, only 5,100 people declared Kashubian [[national identity]], although 52,655 declared [[Kashubian language|Kashubian]] as their everyday language.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kaszubi.pl/aktualnosci/aktualnosc/id/746 |title=Dzień Rodny Mòwë |language=pl |access-date=3 January 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042927/http://www.kaszubi.pl/aktualnosci/aktualnosc/id/746 |url-status=live }}</ref> Most Kashubs declare Polish [[national identity]] and Kashubian [[ethnicity]], and are considered both Polish ''and'' Kashubian. On the 2002 census there was no option to declare one national identity and a different ethnicity, or more than one ethnicity. On the 2011 census, the number of persons declaring "Kashubian" as their only ethnicity was 16,000, and 233,000 including those who declared Kashubian as first or second ethnicity (together with Polish).<ref name="gudaszewski">{{Cite book|url=https://stat.gov.pl/files/gfx/portalinformacyjny/pl/defaultaktualnosci/5670/22/1/1/struktura_narodowo-etniczna.pdf|title=Struktura narodowo-etniczna, językowa i wyznaniowa ludności Polski. Narodowy Spis Powszechny Ludności i Mieszkań 2011.|last=Gudaszewski|first=Grzegorz|publisher=Główny Urząd Statystyczny|date=November 2015|isbn=978-83-7027-597-6|location=Warsaw|pages=132–136|access-date=9 February 2018|archive-date=8 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808010836/https://stat.gov.pl/files/gfx/portalinformacyjny/pl/defaultaktualnosci/5670/22/1/1/struktura_narodowo-etniczna.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="stat">''[http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/Przynaleznosc_narodowo-etniczna_w_2011_NSP.pdf Przynależność narodowo-etniczna ludności – wyniki spisu ludności i mieszkań 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515165423/https://stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/Przynaleznosc_narodowo-etniczna_w_2011_NSP.pdf |date=15 May 2020 }}''. GUS. Materiał na konferencję prasową w dniu 29. 01. 2013. p. 3. {{Retrieved|access-date=6 March 2013}}</ref> In that census, over 108,000 people declared everyday use of Kashubian language.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kaszebsko.com/uploads/historia/Historiô%20Kaszëbów%20%2819%29III.pdf |title=Kaszubi w statystyce (cz. III), Tabela 3. (Table 3.) |page=7/10 |language=pl |access-date=3 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231052041/http://kaszebsko.com/uploads/historia/Histori%C3%B4%20Kasz%C3%ABb%C3%B3w%20(19)III.pdf |archive-date=31 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The number of people who can speak at least some Kashubian is higher, around 366,000.<ref name="polen-analysen"/>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+People with Kashubian ancestry and at least some understanding of [[Kashubian language|Kashubian]] in [[Pomeranian Voivodeship|Pomerelia]] (2005)<ref name="polen-analysen">{{Cite journal|date=September 2011|title=Polen-Analysen. Die Kaschuben|url=http://www.laender-analysen.de/polen/pdf/PolenAnalysen95.pdf|journal=Länder-Analysen|language=de|volume=Polen NR. 95|pages=10–13|access-date=9 February 2018|archive-date=29 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220829061858/https://www.laender-analysen.de/polen/pdf/PolenAnalysen95.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Kaschuben heute"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://docplayer.pl/57273906-Instytut-kaszubski-acta-cassubiana-tom-xvii.html|title=Acta Cassubiana. Vol. XVII (map on p. 122)|date=2015|website=Instytut Kaszubski|access-date=9 February 2018|archive-date=10 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210002849/http://docplayer.pl/57273906-Instytut-kaszubski-acta-cassubiana-tom-xvii.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
!County / City
!Kashubian descent
!%
!Can speak at least some Kashubian
!%
!Total population
|-1008753±56768

|[[Puck County|Puck]]
|56,358
|80,2
| rowspan="3" |163,707
| rowspan="3" |53,3
|69,900
|-
|[[Wejherowo County|Wejherowo]]
|113,097
|66,1
|171,100
|-
|[[Kościerzyna County|Kościerzyna]]
|49,116
|74,5
|65,900
|-
|[[Kartuzy County|Kartuzy]]
|94,136
|93,8
|83,592
|83,3
|100,300
|-
|[[Bytów County|Bytów]]
|37,767
|49,2
|26,544
|34,6
|76,700
|-
|[[Chojnice County|Chojnice]]
|23,926
|26,3
| rowspan="3" |37,954
| rowspan="3" |18,8
|91,000
|-
|[[Lębork County|Lębork]]
|19,594
|29,7
|65,800
|-
|[[Gdańsk County|Gdańsk]]
|13,742
|30,6
|45,000
|-
|[[Gdynia|Gdynia City]]
|81,090
|31,8
|10,223
|4,0
|255,000
|-
|[[Gdańsk|Gdańsk City]]
|47,163
|10,3
| rowspan="2" |31,211
| rowspan="2" |6,2
|457,900
|-
|[[Sopot|Sopot City]]
|5,795
|13,7
|42,300
|-
|[[Słupsk County|Słupsk]]
|7,945
|8,4
| rowspan="2" |8,889
| rowspan="2" |4,5
|94,100
|-
|[[Słupsk|Słupsk City]]
|9,504
|9,3
|102,200
|-
|[[Człuchów County|Człuchów]]
|7,814
|13,3
|3,713
|6,3
|58,800
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''567,000'''
|'''33,4'''
|'''366,000'''
|'''21,6'''
|'''1,696,000'''
|}

As of 1890, linguist [[Stefan Ramułt]] estimated the number of Kashubs (including [[Slovincian language|Slovincians]]) in [[Pomerelia]] as 174,831.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kaszebsko.com/uploads/historia/Histori%C3%B4%20Kasz%C3%ABb%C3%B3w%20%2819%29I.pdf|title=Temat 19: Kaszubi w statystyce (cz. I)|website=kaszebsko.com|access-date=9 February 2018|archive-date=14 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214202721/http://kaszebsko.com/uploads/historia/Histori%C3%B4%20Kasz%C3%ABb%C3%B3w%20(19)I.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Statystyka ludności kaszubskiej|last=Ramułt|first=Stefan|year=1899|location=Cracow|language=pl}}</ref> He also estimated that at that time there were over 90,000 Kashubs in the United States, around 25,000 in Canada,15,000 in Brazil and 25,000 elsewhere in the world. In total 330,000.

In the census of 2021 in total 179,685 people in Poland claimed Kashubian as their ethnic-national identity. Of them only 12,846 claimed it without accompanying Polish identity.<ref name="2021 census"/>