Population of the Republic of Belarus by nationality and spoken languages in 1999

	Number of persons of the given nationality, thsd.	Of total number of persons of the given nationality, per cent
		those who consider the language of their nationality as their mother tongue	those who indicated as the home-spoken language
			Belarusian	Russian	other
Total population	10045	81,9	36,7	62,8	0,5
of which:
Belarusians	8159	85,6	41,3	58,6	0,1
Russians	1142	90,7	4,3	95,7	-
Poles	396	16,5	57,6	37,7	4,7
Ukrainians	237	42,9	10,2	83,6	6,2
Jews	28	5,4	3,8	95,7	0,5