Ethnic and religious composition of Austria-Hungary


The ethno-linguistic composition of Austria-Hungary according to the census of 31 December 1910 was as follows:

Population

Languages

In the Austrian Empire, the census of 1911 recorded Umgangssprache, everyday language. Jews and those using German in offices often stated German as their Umgangssprache, even when having a different Muttersprache.
In the Kingdom of Hungary, the census was based primarily on mother tongue, 48.1% of the total population spoke Hungarian as their native language. Not counting autonomous Croatia-Slavonia, more than 54.4% of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary were native speakers of Hungarian. This included also the Jews, as mostly they were Hungarian-speaking.

Cisleithanian states

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Transleithanian states

Historical regions

Region
Mother Tongues
Hungarian language
Other languages
TransylvaniaRomanian – 2,819,467 1,658,045 German – 550,964
Upper HungarySlovak – 1,688,413 881,320 German – 198,405
DélvidékSerbo-Croatian – 601,770 425,672 German – 324,017
Romanian – 75,318
Slovak – 56,690
TranscarpathiaRuthenian – 330,010 185,433 German – 64,257
FiumeItalian – 24,212 6,493 Croatian and Serbian – 13,351
Slovene - 2,336
German - 2,315
ŐrvidékGerman – 217,072 26,225 Croatian – 43,633
MuravidékSlovene – 74,199 – in 192114,065 – in 1921German – 2,540 – in 1921

The Germans in Croatia were mainly living in the eastern parts of the country where they had been settled along the Drava and Danube rivers, the Military Borders after the ouster of the Turks in 1687.

Religions