USSR ethnic composition 1989 | Statista

In 1989, ethnic Russians made up slightly more than half of the Soviet Union's total population, at around 51 percent overall. When compared with 1979, there was a slight decrease in the share of ethnicities in European and western regions, whereas there was a slight increase in the share of ethnicities concentrated in the Caucuses and Central Asia.

Ethnic composition of the Soviet Union's population in 1989

Characteristic	Share of total population
Other	3.53%
Estonian	0.36%
Polish	0.39%
Mordvinian	0.4%
Jewish	0.48%
Latvian	0.51%
Bashkir	0.51%
Chuvash	0.64%
German	0.71%
People of Dagestan	0.72%
Kirgiz	0.89%
Turkmen	0.96%
Lithuanian	1.07%
Moldavian	1.17%
Georgian	1.39%
Tadzhik	1.48%
Armenian	1.62%
Tatar	2.33%
Azerbaijanian	2.37%
Kazakh	2.85%
Belorussian	3.51%
Uzbek	5.84%
Ukrainian	15.46%
Russian	50.8%

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1991

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Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, CEE

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