Kurdish population
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Turkey(14.7 million (18%)) Iran(8.1 million (10%)) Iraq(5.5 million (17.5%)) Syria(1.7 million (9.7%)) Western Europe: 1.5–1.7 million[1][2] Total: 31–32 million | |
| Languages | |
| KurdishandZaza–Gorani languages | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam(incl.Sufism),Shia Islam,Alevism,Yazidism,Yarsanism,with minorities ofZoroastrianism,ChristianityandJudaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| OtherIranian peoples |
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TheKurdish populationis estimated to be between 30 and 45 million.[3][4]MostKurdish peoplelive inKurdistan,which today is split betweenIranian Kurdistan,Iraqi Kurdistan,Turkish Kurdistan,andSyrian Kurdistan.[5]
Kurdistan
The bulk of Kurdish groups in Kurdistan areSunni(mostly of theShafi'ischool), but there are significant minorities adhering toShia Islam(especiallyAlevis),Yazidism,Yarsanism,ChristianityandJudaism.[6][7][8]
Turkey
According to a report by Turkish agency KONDA, in 2006, out of the total population of 73 million people inTurkeythere were 11.4 million Kurds andZazasliving in Turkey (close to 15.68% of the total population).[9]The Turkish newspaperMilliyetreported in 2008 that the Kurdish population in Turkey is 12.6 million; although this also includes 3 million Zazas.[10]According to theWorld Factbook,Kurdish people make up 18% of Turkey's population (about 14 million, out of 77.8 million people).[11]Kurdish sources put the figure at 10[12]to 15 million Kurds in Turkey.[13]
Kurds mostly live inNorthern Kurdistan,inSoutheasternandEastern Anatolia.But large Kurdish populations can be found in western Turkey due to internal migration. According to Rüstem Erkan,Istanbulis theprovincewith the largest Kurdish population in Turkey.[14]
Iran
From the 7 million Iranian Kurds, majority who areSunni.[15]Shia Kurds inhabit Kermanshah Province, except for those parts where people areJaff,andIlam ProvinceProvince; as well as some parts ofKurdistan,HamadanandZanjanprovinces. The Kurds ofKhorasan Provincein northeastern Iran are also adherents of Shia Islam. During theShia revolutionin Iran the major Kurdish political parties were unsuccessful in absorbing Shia Kurds, who at that period had no interest in autonomy.[16][17][18]However, since the 1990s Kurdish nationalism has seeped into the Shia Kurdish area partly due to outrage against government's violent suppression of Kurds farther north.[19]
Iraq
Kurds constitute approximately 17% of Iraq's population. They are the majority in at least three provinces in northern Iraq which are together known asIraqi Kurdistan.Kurds also have a presence inKirkuk,Mosul,Khanaqin,andBaghdad.Around 300,000 Kurds live in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, 50,000 in the city of Mosul and around 100,000 elsewhere in southern Iraq.[20][better source needed]
Kurds led byMustafa Barzaniwere engaged in heavy fighting against successive Iraqi regimes from 1960 to 1975. In March 1970, Iraq announced a peace plan providing for Kurdish autonomy. The plan was to be implemented in four years.[21]However, at the same time, the Iraqi regime started an Arabization program in the oil-rich regions ofKirkukandKhanaqin.[22]The peace agreement did not last long, and in 1974, the Iraqi government began a new offensive against the Kurds. Moreover, in March 1975, Iraq and Iran signed theAlgiers Accord,according to which Iran cut supplies to Iraqi Kurds. Iraq started another wave of Arabization by moving Arabs to the oil fields in Kurdistan, particularly those around Kirkuk.[23]Between 1975 and 1978, 200,000 Kurds were deported to other parts of Iraq.[24]
Syria
Kurdsare the largest ethnic minority in Syria and make up nine percent of the country's population.[25]Syrian Kurds have faced routine discrimination and harassment by the government.[26][27]
Syrian Kurdistanis an unofficial name used by some to describe the Kurdish inhabited regions of northern and northeastern Syria.[28]The northeastern Kurdish inhabited region covers the greater part ofHasakah Governorate.The main cities in this region areQamishliandHasakah.Another region with significant Kurdish population isKobanê(Ayn al-Arab) in the northern part of Syria near the town ofJarabulusand also the city ofAfrinand its surroundings along the Turkish border.
Many Kurds seek political autonomy for the Kurdish inhabited areas of Syria, similar to Iraqi Kurdistan in Iraq, or outright independence as part of Kurdistan. The name "Western Kurdistan" (Kurdish:Rojavayê Kurdistanê) is also used by Kurds to name the Syrian Kurdish inhabited areas in relation to Kurdistan.[29][30][31]Since theSyrian civil war,Syrian government forces have abandoned many Kurdish-populated areas, leaving the Kurds to fill the power vacuum and govern these areas autonomously.[32]
Transcaucasus
Armenia
According to the 2011 Armenian Census, 37,470 Kurds live in Armenia.[33]They mainly live in the western parts of Armenia. The Kurds of the former Soviet Union first began writing Kurdish in the Armenian Alpha bet in the 1920s, followed by Latin in 1927, then Cyrillic in 1945, and now in both Cyrillic and Latin. The Kurds in Armenia established a Kurdish radio broadcast from Yerevan and the first Kurdish newspaper Riya Teze. There is a Kurdish Department in the Yerevan State Institute of Oriental studies. The Kurds of Armenia were the first exiled country to have access to media such as radio, education and press in their native tongue[34]but many Kurds, from 1939 to 1959 were listed as the Azeri population or even as Armenians.[35]
Georgia
According to the 2002 Georgian Census, 20,843 Kurds live in Georgia[36]The Kurds in Georgia mainly live in the capital ofTbilisiandRustavi.[37]According to aUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugeesreport from 1998, about 80% of the Kurdish population in Georgia are assimilated Kurds.[37]
Diaspora
There were also many Kurds among the Kurdish diaspora and inRed Kurdistan.[38][39]
Russia
According to the2010 Russian Census,63,818 Kurds live in Russia. Russia has maintained warm relations with the Kurds for a long time, During the early 19th century, the main goal of the Russian Empire was to ensure the neutrality of the Kurds, in the wars against Persia and the Ottoman Empire.[40]In the beginning of the 19th century, Kurds settled in Transcaucasia, at a time when Transcaucasia was incorporated into the Russian Empire. In the 20th century, Kurds were persecuted and exterminated by the Turks and Persians, a situation that led Kurds to move to Russia.[38]
Lebanon
The existence of a community of at least 125,000 Kurds[41]is the product of several waves of immigrants, the first major wave was in the period of 1925–1950 when thousands of Kurds fled violence and poverty in Turkey.[42]Kurds inLebanongo back far as the twelfth century A.D. when theAyyubidsarrived there. Over the next few centuries, several other Kurdish families were sent to Lebanon by a number of powers to maintain rule in those regions, others moved as a result of poverty and violence in Kurdistan. These Kurdish groups settled in and ruled many areas of Lebanon for a long period of time.[43]: 27 Kurds of Lebanon settled in Lebanon because of Lebanon's pluralistic society.[44]
European Union
The Kurdish diaspora in theEuropean Unionis most significant in Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands. Kurds from Turkey went to Germany and France during the 1960s as immigrant workers. Thousands of Kurdish refugees and political refugees fled from Turkey to Sweden during the 1970s and onward, and from Iraq during the 1980s and 1990s.
In France, theIranian Kurdsmake up the majority of the community.[45]However, thousands ofIraqi Kurdsalso arrived in the mid-1990s.[46]More recently,Syrian Kurdshave been entering France illegally[47]
In theUnited Kingdom,Kurds first began to immigrate between 1974 and 1975 when the rebellion of Iraqi Kurds against the Iraqi government was repressed. The Iraqi government began to destroy Kurdish villages and forced many Kurds to move to barren land in the south.[48]These events resulted in many Kurds fleeing to the United Kingdom. Thus, the Iraqi Kurds make up a large part of the community.[45]In 1979,Ayatollah Khomeinicame to power in Iran and installed Islamic law. There was widespread political oppression and persecution of the Kurdish community. Since the late 1970s the number of people from Iran seeking asylum in Britain has remained high.[48]In 1988,Saddam Husseinlaunched theAnfal campaignin the northern Iraq. This included mass executions and disappearances of the Kurdish community. The use of chemical weapons against thousands of towns and villages in the region, as well as the town ofHalabjaincreased the number of Iraq Kurds entering the United Kingdom.[48]A large number of Kurds also came to the United Kingdom following the 1980 military coup in Turkey.[48]More recently, immigration has been due to the continued political oppression and the repression of ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq and Iran.[48]Estimates of the Kurdish population in the United Kingdom are as high as 200–250,000.[48]
InDenmark,there is a significant number of Iraqi political refugees, many of which are Kurds.[49]
In Finland, most Kurds arrived in the 1990s as Iraqi refugees.[50]Kurds in Finlandhave no great attachment to the Iraqi state because of their position as a persecuted minority. Thus, they feel more accepted and comfortable in Finland, many wanting to get rid of their Iraqi citizenship.[51]
From 1994 to 1999, 43,759 Kurds entered Greece illegally and of the 9,797 who applied for asylum 524 were granted it.[52]
North America
In the United States, estimates of the Kurdish population vary from 15,000[53]to 20,000[54]to 58,000.[55]During the 1991Persian Gulf War,about 10,000 Iraqi refugees were admitted to the United States, most of which were Kurds andShiiteswho had assisted or were sympathisers of the U.S. –led war.[56]Nashville, Tennesseehas the nation's largest population of Kurdish people, with an estimated 8,000–11,000. There are also Kurds inSouthern California,Los Angeles,San Diego,andDallas, Texas.[57]
InCanada,the Kurdish community is 11,685[58]based on the Canadian Census 2011, among which theIraqi Kurdsmake up the largest group of Kurds in Canada, exceeding the numbers of Kurds fromTurkey,IranandSyria.Kurdish immigration was largely the result of theIran–Iraq War,theGulf WarandSyrian Civil War.Thus, many Iraqi Kurds immigrated to Canada due to the constant wars and suppression of Kurds and Shiites by the Iraqi government.[59]
Oceania
InAustralia,Kurdish migrants first arrived in the second half of the 1960s, mainly fromTurkey.[60]However, in the late 1970s families fromSyriaandLebanonwere also present in Australia.[60]Since the second half of the 1980s, the majority of Kurds arriving in Australia have been from Iraq and Iran; many of them were accepted under the Humanitarian Programme.[60]However, Kurds from Lebanon, Armenia and Georgia have also migrated to Australia. The majority live inMelbourneandSydney.[60]
Japan
The Japanese government has not granted refugee status. While 3,415 Kurds have so far applied for refugee status, none has yet received it.[61]
Statistics by country
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Autochthonous community
| Country | Official figures or estimates | Official figures in % | Further information |
|---|---|---|---|
 Turkey |
13,200,000(1993MRGIestimate)[62] 14,700,000(2017CFRestimate)[1] |
— | Kurds in Turkey |
 Iran |
6,100,000(1993MRGIestimate)[62] 8,100,000(2017CFRestimate)[1] |
— | Kurds in Iran |
 Iraq |
4,400,000(1993MRGIestimate)[62] 5,450,000(2015EPRSestimate)[63] |
— | Kurds in Iraq |
 Syria |
1,100,000(1993MRGIestimate)[62] 2,500,000(2011MRGIestimate)[64] |
— | Kurds in Syria |
Transcaucasus
Europe
| Country | Official figures or estimates | Official figures in % | Further information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Germany |
500,000(1993KIPestimate)[84] 850,000(2016KIPestimate)[2] |
— | Kurds in Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 France |
60,000(1993KIPestimate)[85][84] 230,000(2016KIPestimate)[2] |
— | Kurds in France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Netherlands |
30,000(1993KIPestimate)[84] 100,000(2016KIPestimate)[2] |
— | Kurds in the Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Sweden |
15,000(1993KIPestimate)[84] 85,000(2016KIPestimate)[2] |
— | Kurds in Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Russia |
50,701(2021 census)[86] | 0% | Kurds in Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Austria |
25,000(1993KIPestimate)[84] 80,000(2016KIPestimate)[2] |
— | 2,133(2001 census, Kurdish speakers)[87] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Belgium |
12,000(1993KIPestimate)[84] 70,000(2016KIPestimate)[2] |
— | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 United Kingdom |
93,174[88][89](2021 census,excludes Scotland) 66,677[90][89](2021 census, Kurdish speakers, excludes Scotland) |
0.1% | Kurds in the United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Greece |
1,000(1993KIPestimate)[84] 40,000(2016KIPestimate)[2] |
— | Kurds in Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Denmark |
12,000(1993KIPestimate)[84] 25,000(2016KIPestimate)[2] |
— | Kurds in Denmark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Italy |
25,000(2016KIPestimate)[2] | — | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Norway |
2,000(1993KIPestimate)[84] 25,000(2016KIPestimate)[2] |
— | 7,100(2013 official estimate, Kurdish speakers)[91] Kurds in Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Switzerland |
14,699(2012 statistics, Kurdish speakers)[92] 19,401(2015 statistics, Kurdish speakers)[93] |
0.2% 0.3% |
Kurds in Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Finland |
3,926(2002 annual statistics, Kurdish speakers)[94] 16,603(2022 annual statistics, Kurdish speakers)[94] |
0.1% 0.3% |
Kurds in Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Romania |
3,000(2006 estimate)[95] | — | Kurds in Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Ukraine |
2,088(2001 census)[96] 302(2014 Crimean census)[97] |
0% | Kurds in Ukraine
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Cyprus |
1,500(2006 estimate)[98] | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Spain |
1,500(2012 estimate)[99] | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Ireland |
818(2016 census, Kurdish speakers)[100] | 0% |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Luxembourg
|
307(2021 statistics)[102] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Poland |
224(2011 census)[103] | 0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Hungary |
291(2001 census) 149(2011 census) |
0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Moldova |
130(2017 statistics)[104] | 0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Belarus |
126(2009 census)[105] | 0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Latvia |
37(2023 statistics)[106] | 0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Bulgaria |
128(1992 census)[107] 147(2001 census)[107] 105(2011 census)[107] |
0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Czech Republic |
222(2021 census)[108] | 0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
28(2013 census)[109] | 0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Estonia |
23(2011 census)[110] 50(2021 census)[111] |
0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Serbia |
<12(2011 census)[112] | 0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Lithuania |
5(2001 census)[113] 25(2010 asylum seekers by ethnicity)[114] 29(2011 asylum seekers by ethnicity)[115] 8(2012 asylum seekers by ethnicity)[116] 3(2013 asylum seekers by ethnicity)[117] |
0% | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Croatia |
8(2011 census)[118][119] | 0% | — |
Middle East
| Country | Est. population | Further information |
|---|---|---|
 Lebanon |
approx.294,000(2017 estimate)[41] | Kurds in Lebanon |
 Israel |
approx.200,000(Jews from Kurdistan)[120] | Kurds in Israel |
 Bahrain |
approx.44,600[121] | — |
 Jordan |
approx.30,000(2012 estimate)[122] | Kurds in Jordan |
 Kuwait |
approx.5,000(1991 estimate)[123] | — |
Asia
| Country | Official figures | Official figures in % | Est. population | Further information | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Kazakhstan |
48,642(2022 annual statistics)[124] | 0.3% | — | Kurds in Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Kyrgyzstan |
13,171(2009 census)[125][126] | 0.2% | — |
| ||||||||||||||||||||
 Turkmenistan |
4,387(1989 census)[131] 6,097(1995 census)[132] |
0.1% | — | Kurds in Turkmenistan
| ||||||||||||||||||||
 Afghanistan |
— | — | approx.2,670[133] | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Uzbekistan |
1,839(1989 census)[131] | 0% | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
 South Korea |
— | — | approx.1,000[134] | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Japan |
— | — | approx.2,000[135] | Kurds in Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Pakistan |
— | — | approx.240[136] | Kurds in Pakistan | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Tajikistan |
7(2010 census)[137] | 0% | — | — |
Americas and Oceania
| Country | Official figures | Official figures in % | Further information |
|---|---|---|---|
 United States |
28,152(2016–2021ACS)[138] | 0% | Kurds in the United States |
 Canada |
23,130(2021 census)[139] 19,185(2021 census, Kurdish speakers)[140] |
0.1% | Kurds in Canada |
 Australia |
10,171(2021 census)[141] 9,893(2021 census, Kurdish speakers)[142] |
0% 0% |
|
 New Zealand |
927(2018 census)[143] | 0% |
- Notes
- ^bOfficial Azerbaijani records claim only 6,065 Kurds in 2009,[75][144]while Kurdish leaders estimate as much as 200,000. The problem is that the historical record of the Kurds in Azerbaijan is filled with lacunae.[145]For instance, in 1979 there was according to the census no Kurds recorded.[146]Not only didTurkeyand Azerbaijan pursue an identical policy against the Kurds, they even employed identical techniques like forced assimilation, manipulation of population figures, settlement of non-Kurds in areas predominantly Kurdish, suppression of publications and abolition of Kurdish as a medium of instruction in schools.[146]
- ^cIn the2010 Russian Census,23,232 people indicated Kurdish (Курды) as their ethnicity, while 40,586 chose Yazidi (Езиды) as their ethnicity.[147]
- ^dIn the 2011 Armenian Census, 2,131 people indicated Kurdish (Քրդեր) as their ethnicity, while 35,272 indicated Yazidi (Եզդիներ) as their ethnicity.[33]
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