(68.2%), 126,000 Ukrainians (12.7%), 78,800 Jews (7.9%), 48,200 Bulgarians and Gaguz (4.9%), 24,200 (2.4%) Germans and 20,000 Russians (2%) for a total of 991,900. Russian data, 1889 (Total: 1,628,867 inhabitants) The Russian census in 1897 had a total of 1,935,412 inhabitants. By language: 920,919 Moldavians (47.6%) 379,698 Ukrainians (19.6%) 228,168 Jews (11.8%) 155,774 Russians (8%) 103,225 Bulgarians (5.3%) 60,026 Germans (3.1%) 55,790 Turks (Gagauzes) (2.9%) However, some scholars believed in regard to the 1897 census that "[...] the census enumerator generally has instructions to count everyone who understands the state language as being of that nationality, no matter what his everyday speech may be". Thus a number of Moldavians might have been registered as Russians. According to N. Durnovo, the population of Bessarabia in 1900 was (1,935,000 inhabitants): Notes: 1 The two counties were merged. The Romanian estimates in 1919 (1922) gave a total populations of 2,631,000 inhabitants: 1,685,000 Moldavians (64.0%) 254,000 Ukrainians (9.7%) 287,000 Jews (10.2%) 75,000 Russians (2.8%) 147,000 Bulgarians (5.6%) 79,000 Germans (3.0%) 59,000 Lipovans and Cossacks (2.2%) 67,000 Others (2.5%) According to the 1930 Romanian census, the total population of Bessarabia was 2,864,662 inhabitants: Notes: 1 Includes Lipovans. 2 Poles, Armenians, Albanians, Greeks, Gypsies, etc. and non-declared The data of the Romanian census of 1939 was not completely processed before the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia. However, estimates had the total population rise to approximately 3.2 million. The census of 1941, during the Romanian wartime administration (Total: 2,733,563 inhabitants): 1,793,493 Moldavians (65.6%) 449,540 Ukrainians (16.4%) 177,647 Bulgarians (6.5%) 164,410 Russians (6.0%) 115,683 Gagauz (4.2%) 9,086 Poles (0.3%) 6,882 Jews (0.3%) 2,058 Germans (0.1%) 14,794 Others (0.6%) In the 1979 Soviet census for the Moldavian SSR (including Transnistria, but without northern and southern Bessarabia, now both part of Ukraine): 63.9% identified themselves as Moldovans and 0.04% as Romanians. For the Soviet census of 1989 (conducted in the Moldavian SSR), 64.5% declared themselves as Moldovans and 0.06% Romanians. In the Moldovan census of 2014 (not including Transnistria), 75% declared themselves Moldovans and 7% Romanians. Economy 1911: There were 165 loan societies, 117 savings banks, 43 professional savings and loan societies, and eight Zemstvo loan offices; all these had total assets of about 10,000,000 rubles. There were also 89 government savings banks, with deposits of about 9,000,000 rubles. 1918: There was only of railway; the main lines converged on Russia and were broad gauge. Rolling stock and right of way