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Kurdish population figures by country, sourced. Figures on Kurds by country, each with its measure, year, source and label, on a map with earthquakes, boundaries and population grids from open data.

Figures on the community by country, each with its own measure, year, source and label, on one map with open-data layers. Figures of different measures are never added up.

Figures

  • Iran: 10 to 12 million institute estimate; 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish population; label: secondary
  • Austria: 80,000 to 95,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Türkiye: 15 to 20 million (19 to 25 percent) institute estimate; 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish population; label: secondary
  • Türkiye: 13.4 million (17.7 percent) 'Kurds and Zazas' survey self-identification; after 2006; source: KONDA via Hürriyet Daily News; label: secondary
  • Netherlands: 100,000 to 120,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Kazakhstan: 38,325 census; 2011; source: Kazakhstan census via Wikipedia; label: to verify
  • Denmark: 25,000 to 30,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • New Zealand: about 990 ethnic group 'Kurd'; 2023; source: Stats NZ via Figure.NZ; label: secondary
  • United Kingdom: about 76,000 (73,510 in table TS022) ethnic group write-in 'Kurdish', England and Wales; 2021; source: ONS Census 2021; label: verified
  • United Kingdom: 70,000 to 90,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Lebanon: 70,000 to 100,000 estimate; source: Wikipedia; label: to verify
  • United States: about 25,000 (census, secondary) to 50,000 (Institut kurde de Paris) mixed; 2020; source: Wikipedia: Kurdish Americans; IKP; label: to verify
  • United States: 15,000 to 20,000 community estimate, Nashville; 2023; source: WPLN, 2025; label: secondary
  • Kyrgyzstan: 13,171 census; 2009; source: Kyrgyz census via Wikipedia; label: to verify
  • France: 230,000 to 250,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Italy: 25,000 to 30,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Canada: 23,130 Kurdish ethnic origin; 2021; source: Statistics Canada 98-10-0355 via The Canadian Encyclopedia; label: secondary
  • Canada: about 50,000 community estimate; source: The Canadian Encyclopedia; label: secondary
  • Israel: 150,000 to 200,000 Kurdish Jews and descendants; estimate; 2007; source: Wikipedia; label: to verify
  • Norway: 25,000 to 30,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Norway: 7,100 Kurdish speakers official estimate; 2013; source: Wikipedia: Kurds in Norway; label: to verify
  • Georgia: 12,174 Yazidis census; 2014; source: Geostat via Civil.ge; label: secondary
  • Russia: about 23,000 Kurds and 40,000 Yazidis census self-identification; 2010; source: Rosstat (from memory; 2021 census table not found); label: to verify
  • Belgium: 70,000 to 85,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Azerbaijan: about 6,100 census; 2009; source: Minority Rights Group; label: secondary
  • Germany: about 1.3 million research estimate; 2023; source: Mediendienst Integration citing Ghaderi and Almstadt (2023); label: secondary
  • Germany: about 649,000 asylum applications by Kurds 2010 to 2025; about 375,000 granted protection asylum statistics by stated ethnicity; 2025; source: Bundestag Drucksache 20/10827; label: secondary
  • Germany: 850,000 to 950,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Finland: 18,460 Kurdish mother tongue in the population register; 2025; source: Statistics Finland via Wikipedia; label: to verify
  • Finland: 15,000 to 18,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Greece: 40,000 to 50,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Iraq: 8 to 8.5 million (25 to 27 percent) institute estimate; 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish population; label: secondary
  • Iraq: about 6.37 to 6.52 million residents of the Kurdistan Region; 3.95 million in disputed areas census residents (not ethnicity); 2024; source: Iraq census, 20 to 22 Nov 2024, via PUKmedia and Kurdistan24; label: secondary
  • Armenia: 31,079 Yazidis and 1,663 Kurds census self-identification; 2022; source: Armstat via Minority Rights Group; label: secondary
  • Syria: 3 to 3.6 million (12.5 to 15 percent) institute estimate; 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish population; label: secondary
  • Japan: 2,000 to 3,000 estimate, mostly Turkish citizens; 2025; source: FPRI (June 2025); label: secondary
  • Sweden: 85,000 to 100,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary
  • Sweden: about 150,000 Kurdish speakers community estimate; 2022; source: Kurdo Baksi quoted by Sveriges Radio; label: secondary
  • Australia: 10,171 Kurdish ancestry; 9,893 speak Kurdish at home census; 2021; source: ABS via SBS; label: secondary
  • Switzerland: 85,000 to 95,000 institute estimate (range); 2016; source: Institut kurde de Paris, The Kurdish diaspora (Dec 2016 table of ranges); label: secondary

Measures

  • institute estimate (range) 2016; 13 countries
  • institute estimate 2016; 4 countries

Open-data layers

  • USGS earthquake catalogue (FDSN event service) Public domain (U.S. Government work); credit requested; register APPROVED
  • geoBoundaries open administrative boundaries (gbOpen) Per country, from the geoBoundaries record: Iran ODbL 1.0 (OpenStreetMap, share-alike), Türkiye CC BY-SA 2.0 (OpenStreetMap), Iraq CC0 1.0, Syria CC BY 3.0 IGO (UN OCHA). Share-alike terms need review; register APPROVED
  • Kontur Population: H3 resolution 8 population grid, per country (HDX) CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International): reuse with attribution to Kontur; stated on each HDX dataset page; register APPROVED

Sources register

  • 458 sources 358 APPROVED, 100 LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED

Risk indices

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