Table 2.

Indicators of using Cyrillic as the official alphabet in 2020 *

Country	State languages using Cyrillic	Population size, mln people	Share, %
Abkhazia	Abkhazian	0.2	0.08
Belarus	Belarusian	9.5	3.7
Republika Srpska within the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Serbian (official along with Romanized Bosnian and Croatian)	1.15	0.6
Bulgaria	Bulgarian	6.9	2.7
Kazakhstan	Kazakh	19.0	7.4
Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyz	6.5	2.6
Mongolia	Mongolian	3.35	1.3
Transnistria	Russian, Moldovan,** Ukrainian (equivalent official languages)	0.46	0.2
Russia	Russian	145.9	57.0
North Macedonia	Macedonian	2.1	0.8
Serbia	Serbian (Ruthenian dialect in Vojvodina)	6.9	2.7
Tajikistan	Tajik	9.5	3.7
Ukraine	Ukrainian	43.7	17.1
Montenegro	Montenegrin (used also based on the Latin script)	0.6	0.2
South Ossetia	Ossetian	0.05	0.02
Total		255.8	100.0

*According to the author.

**Cyrillic variant of the Moldovan language.