[Chad_the_Impaler]

Despite the short life expectancies of Slavs and their brutal internecine warfare, the fraction of the European population that is Slavic has dramatically increased in just the last generation:

| Year | Slavic Population | European Population | Slavic Fraction |
| 1000 | ~7.3 million | ~40 million | ~18.3% |
| 2002 | ~260 million | ~742 million | ~35.0% |
| 2025 | ~360 million | ~751 million | ~47.9% |

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Slavic” is such a broad term. Slavic origin is associated with ethnic groups and nations where Slavic languages and cultures predominate:
East Slavic: Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Rusyns.
West Slavic: Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Sorbs.
South Slavic: Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Slovenes, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Montenegrins.

Today, “Slavic” means a combination of ethnic identity (tied to a Slavic ethnic group (e.g., Polish, Russian, Serbian), Slavic language or identify, Slavic cultural traditions and heritage, and genetic ancestry.

It is so broad that it is hard to generalize the people.

Another description is “white.”