MOSCOW -- The following is the ethnic make-up of states within the Commonwealth of Independent States, declared Saturday in the Kazakhstan capital of Alma Ata by 11 former Soviet republics.
The ethnic make-ups are based on a 1979 Soviet census, the latest available information. The population figures are from January 1987. The ethnic compositions have remained constant.NEWLN: ------
--ARMENIA: Capital Yerevan. Population 3.3 million. 89.7 percent Armenian, Azerbaijanis 5.3 percent, Russians 2.3 percent, Kurds 1.7 percent. Armenia is the most homogenous of all former Soviet republics.
--AZERBAIJAN: Capital Baku. Population 6.8 million. 78.1 percent Azerbaijani, Russians 7.9 percent, Armenians 7.9 percent, Daghestanis 3. 4 percent.
--BYELORUSSIA: Capital Minsk. Population 10 million. 79 percent Byelorussian, 11.9 percent Russian, 4.2 percent Poles, 2.4 percent Ukrainians, and 1.4 percent Jews.
--KAZAKHSTAN: Capital Alma Ata. It is the largest state in area after the Russian republic, and Russians are the majority of the population. Population 16.2 million. Kazakhs 36 percent, Russians 40.8 percent, Ukrainians 6.1 percent. There are more than 100 nationalities in the republic.
--KIRGHIZIA: Capital Bishkek. Population 4.1 million. Kirghizians 47.9 percent, Russians 25.9 percent, Uzbeks 12.1, Ukrainians 3.1, Tatars 2.
--MOLDAVIA: Capital Kishinev. Population 4.2 million. 63.9 percent Moldavians, 14.2 percent Ukrainians, Russians 12.8 percent, Gargauzi 3.5 percent, and 2 percent Jews.
--RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Covering 75 percent of the former Soviet Union including all of Siberia and containing about half the Soviet population. Capital Moscow. Population 145 million. 83 percent Russian. Among the other nationalities are Tartars, Ukrainians, Poles, Germans, Chuvashis, Bashkirs. Russian President Boris Yeltsin said after the commonwealth signing that Russia has 16 of its own sovereign republics inside the Russian Federation and a total of 130 different national ethnic groups.
--TADZHIKISTAN: Capital Dushanbe. Population 4.8 million. Tadzhiks 58. 8 percent, Uzbeks 22.9 percent, Russians and Ukrainians 10.4 percent combined.
--TURKMENISTAN: Capital Ashkhabad. Population 3.2 million. Turkmenians 68.4 percent, Russians 12.6 percent, Uzbeks 8.5 percent, Kazakhs 2.9 percent. There are also Tartars, Ukrainians and others.
--UKRAINE: Capital Kiev. Population 51.2 million. 73.6 percent Ukrainian, 21 percent Russian, 1.3 percent Jews, 0.8 percent Byelorussian.
--UZBEKISTAN: Capital Tashkent. Population 18.4 million. Uzbeks 68.7 percent, Russians 10.8 percent, Tadzhiks 3.7 percent, Tartars 4.2 percent.NEWLN: ------
Georgia has not entered the C.I.S.
--GEORGIA: Capital Tbilisi. Population 5.3 million. Georgians 68.9 percent, Armenians 9 percent, Russians 7.4 percent, Azerbaijanis 5.1, Ossetians 3.2 and Abkhazians 1.7.
