Editing Demographics of Lithuania (section)

===National Revival===
The [[Lithuanian National Revival]] had begun to intensify by the end of the 19th century, and the number of Lithuanian speakers and people identifying themselves as ethnic Lithuanians started to increase; but at the same time many Polish speaking Lithuanians, especially former ''[[szlachta]]'', cut themselves adrift from the Lithuanian nation. There were population losses due to several border changes, [[Soviet deportations from Lithuania|Soviet deportations]], [[The Holocaust in Lithuania|the Holocaust of the Lithuanian Jews]], and [[Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–50)|German]] and [[Repatriation of Poles (1955–59)|Polish repatriations]] during and after [[World War II]]. After World War II, the ethnic Lithuanian population remained stable: 79.3% in 1959 to 83.5% in 2002. Lithuania's citizenship law and the [[Constitution of Lithuania|Constitution]] meet international and [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe|OSCE]] standards, guaranteeing universal human and civil rights.