Demographics of Vilnius
The city of Vilnius had a population between 569,729[1][2] (according to Statistics Lithuania), 588,412[3] (according to the State Enterprise Centre of Registers) or 589,019 (according to the municipality of Vilnius)[4] – the later figure includes Grigiškės, a separate town within the municipality of the capital. The actual number of temporary inhabitants could be higher as according to the Vilnius territorial health insurance fund, there were 732,815 permanent inhabitants as of January 2021 in Vilnius city and Vilnius district municipalities combined[5][note 1]. According to the predictions, made by the municipality specialists of city planning department of Vilnius, the number of inhabitants of Vilnius in 2030 could be between 630,3 thousand (pessimistic scenario) and 685 thousand (optimistic scenario) with the basic scenario of 651,6 thousand inhabitants within the city borders in the year 2030.[7]
Evolution
Demographic evolution of Vilnius between 1766 and 2019:
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Source: [8]: 214, 303 [9][10] ¹ Sharp decline after the Vilnius uprising (1794); ² Decline of population due to Napoleonic wars and the aftermath; ³ Sharp decline of population of Vilnius because of World War I and the aftermath during the clashes around Vilnius. These resulted in evacuation of Russian military, bureaucracy and the majority of its Russian inhabitants from Vilnius in 1915, as well as fleeing or evacuation of other Vilnius inhabitants of various communities (mostly Jewish and Lithuanian) to Russia and rural parts of Lithuania;[11][12] ⁴ Rise of population due to influx of Polish and Jewish war refugees[13] and migration of Lithuanian bureaucracy, students from temporary capital Kaunas and other localities in Lithuania; ⁵ Sharp decline of population after atrocities of World War II and The Holocaust |
Vilnius inhabitants by ethnicity
Number of inhabitants | |
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Lithuanians | 338,758 |
Poles | 88,408 |
Russians | 63,991 |
Belarusians | 18,924 |
Ukrainians | 5,338 |
Jews | 2,026 |
Tatars | 934 |
Roma | 619 |
Armenians | 435 |
Latvians | 360 |
Germans | 341 |
Other | 2,065 |
Refused to answer | 13,432 |
Total | 535,631 |
Vilnius inhabitants by the country of birth
Elderships of Vilnius
Eldership | Area km²[15] |
Inhabitants[16] | Density per km² |
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Verkiai | 56 | 50,881 | 909 |
Žirmūnai | 5.7 | 43,880 | 7698 |
Pašilaičiai | 7.9 | 41,218 | 5217 |
Antakalnis | 77.2 | 40,875 | 530 |
Naujoji Vilnia | 38.6 | 39,102 | 1013 |
Fabijoniškės | 5.9 | 38,027 | 9275 |
Naujamiestis | 4.9 | 33,206 | 6777 |
Lazdynai | 9.9 | 32,410 | 3274 |
Naujininkai | 37.6 | 31,697 | 843 |
Šeškinė | 4.6 | 29,809 | 6480 |
Pilaitė | 13.9 | 28,335 | 2038 |
Justiniškės | 3.0 | 26,684 | 8895 |
Karoliniškės | 3.7 | 25,250 | 6824 |
Senamiestis | 4.4 | 22,411 | 5093 |
Vilkpėdė | 10.8 | 19,519 | 1807 |
Šnipiškės | 3.1 | 15,750 | 5081 |
Viršuliškės | 2.6 | 14,096 | 5422 |
Žvėrynas | 2.6 | 13,703 | 5270 |
Rasos | 16.3 | 11,666 | 716 |
Grigiškės | 7.0 | 11,246 | 1607 |
Paneriai | 84.8 | 10,537 | 124 |
Undeclared inhabitants | 9,123 | ||
Total | 400.5 | 589,425 | 1472 |
References
- ^ Some inhabitants of Vilnius district are registered at Vilnius city healthcare facilities – the actual number of temporary city inhabitants within the city administrative borders must be higher than official figures of 569, 588 or 589 thousand, but smaller than 643,965 (as of 31 December 2020)[6]
- ^ "Nuolatinių gyventojų skaičius apskrityse ir savivaldybėse metų pradžioje". osp.stat.gov.lt. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
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- ^ a b c Statistics of Vilnius
- ^ Health Insurance Fund under the Ministry of Health
- ^ Inhabitants, registered at Vilnius city primary healthcare facilities
- ^ Vilniaus miesto darnaus judumo plano santrauka, Vilniaus planas, page 48
- ^ Juozas Jurginis; Vytautas Merkys; Adolfas Tautavičius (1968). Vilniaus miesto istorija [Vilnius city history] (in Lithuanian). Vilnius.
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Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XIII [Geographical dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries, Volume XIII] (in Polish). Warsaw. 1893. p. 493. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
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- ^ Pukienė, Vida. "Voronežas – lietuvių švietimo židinys Rusijoje Pirmojo pasaulinio karo metais". Istorija (in Lithuanian).
- ^ Iš nežinios į nežinią: Antrojo pasaulinio karo atbėgėliai Lietuvoje [From one uncertainty to another uncertainty: World War II refugees in Lithuania] (in Lithuanian). Kaunas: National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum. 2015. ISBN 978-9955-471-55-4.
- ^ Lietuvos Respublikos 2011 m. gyventojų surašymo rezultatai, 162-163 p.
- ^ Vilnius city elderships by the area
- ^ Vilnius elderships by the number of inhabitants