2004 Census in Transnistria
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The 2004 Census in Transnistria was organized in Transnistria
at roughly the same time that Moldova
held its own census, which Transnistria refused to participate in out of principle and deference to its September 2, 1990 Declaration of Independence
.
): 555,347 (percentages below refer to this first figure)
Total population (excluding Bender): 450,337
Preliminary data, as shown here, was released forty days after the completion of the census. Final and more detailed results were released with a delay of nearly two years.
Compared with the 1989 census, the population decreased by 18% due to war, natural decrease and economically motivated emigration.
Transnistria
Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...
at roughly the same time that Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
held its own census, which Transnistria refused to participate in out of principle and deference to its September 2, 1990 Declaration of Independence
Declaration of independence
A declaration of independence is an assertion of the independence of an aspiring state or states. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the territory of another nation or failed nation, or are breakaway territories from within the larger state...
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Census results
Total population (including BenderBender, Moldova
Bender or Bendery, also known as Tighina is a city within the internationally recognized borders of Moldova under de facto control of the unrecognized Transnistria Republic since 1992...
): 555,347 (percentages below refer to this first figure)
Total population (excluding Bender): 450,337
- Moldovans: 31.9%
- Russians: 30.3%
- Ukrainians: 28.8%
- Bulgarians: 2%
- Poles: 2%
- Gagauz: 1.5%
- Jews: 1.3%
- Belarusians: 1%
- Germans: 0.6%
- Others: 0.5%
Preliminary data, as shown here, was released forty days after the completion of the census. Final and more detailed results were released with a delay of nearly two years.
Compared with the 1989 census, the population decreased by 18% due to war, natural decrease and economically motivated emigration.