Kabardino-Balkaria
Initial research edition
Ethnic composition
CSVShare of residents who stated their ethnicity in the census.
Published one-decimal percentages among residents who stated ethnicity. Nonresponse is outside this denominator; exact counts are not supplied by this source.
Religious composition
CSVHistorical survey · 2012[24][25]
Religious self-identification · adult respondents aged 18+ · one answer.
29 May–25 June 2012
Survey results describe 2012 adult respondents, not the present-day population. Percentages are rounded. The publisher reports 500–800 interviews per region; the exact achieved sample for this republic is unverified. Overview groups combine the original response options, listed below.
Survey method & grouping
Historical adult survey, 29 May–25 June 2012; one answer per respondent. Shares concern regional respondents aged 18+, not the current population. The publisher reports 56,900 interviews overall and 500–800 per participating region; the exact achieved sample for this republic was not established. The eight overview groups are our aggregation of the 18 original response options, all retained below, including zero values. Christianity combines seven Christian options; Islam combines three Muslim options; other religions combines Buddhism, Judaism and Eastern religions/spiritual practices. These survey groupings describe self-identification, not practice or ethnicity.
All survey response options
- Orthodox, Russian Orthodox Church15.6%
- Belief without a specific religion11.8%
- No belief in God6.6%
- Islam, neither Sunni nor Shia49.2%
- Christian, neither Orthodox, Catholic nor Protestant3%
- Sunni Islam5.4%
- Other Orthodox affiliation, excluding Old Believers0%
- Traditional ancestral religion3%
- Buddhism0%
- Old Believers0%
- Protestantism0.4%
- Shia Islam0.8%
- Catholicism0.4%
- Judaism0.2%
- Eastern religions and spiritual practices0%
- Pentecostal Christianity0%
- Other response0%
- Unable to choose an answer3.6%
Institutions
The republic’s Parliament publishes the constitutional text used here. The visible amendment list ends in 2011; the source is used as an attributed institutional document, rather than a verified 2026 legal consolidation.[11]
Languages
Article 76 of the posted constitution lists Kabardian, Balkar and Russian as state languages. The provision establishes the source’s legal wording, not residents’ language-use rates.[11]