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Population data
According to the 2010 census, Russia had approximately 142,9 million inhabitants, roughly 102 million in the European part, and 41 million in the Asian part.
Most Russians derive from the Eastern Slavic family of peoples, with Turkic (8.4%), Caucasian (3.3%), Uralic (1.9%) and other minorities.
Birth rate: 13.1 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
Death rate: 13.9 deaths/1,000 population (2010 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.94 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.46 male(s)/female
total population: 0.86 male(s)/female (2006 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 8.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 67.9 years
male: 61.8 years
female: 74.2 years (2008 est.)
Total fertility rate:1.28 children born/woman (2006 est.)
The Russian Federation is home to as many as 160 different ethnic groups and indigenous peoples. As of the 2002 census, 79.83% of the population (115,889,107 people) is ethnically Russian, followed by (groups larger than one million):
- 3.83 % Tatars (5,554,601)
- 2.03% Ukrainians (2,942,961)
- 1.15% Bashkirs (1,673,389)
- 1.13% Chuvashs (1,637,094)
- 0.94% Chechens (1,360,253)
- 0.78% Armenians (1,130,491)
Most smaller groups live compactly in their respective regions and can be categorized by language group The ethnic divisions used here are those of the official census, and may in some respects be controversial. The following lists all ethnicites resolved by the 2002 census, grouped by language:
- Indo-European (total 84.07%; 83.27% Slavs)
- Russians 115,889,107 (79.83%)
- Ukrainians 2,942,961 (2.03%)
- Armenians 1,130,491 (0.78%)
- Belarusians 807,970 (0.56%)
- Germans 597,212 (0.41%)
- Ossetians 514,875 (0.35%)
- Roma 182,766 (0.13%)
- Moldovans 172,330 (0.12%)
- Tajiks 120,136 (0.08%)
- Greeks 97,827 (0.07%)
- Poles 73,001 (0.05%)
- Lithuanians 45,569 (0.03%)
- Bulgarians 31,965 (0.02%)
- Latvians 28,520 (0.02%)
- Tats 2,303 (0.00%)
- Turkic (total 8.36%)
- Tatars 5,554,601 (3.83%)
- Bashkirs 1,673,389 (1.15%)
- Chuvashs 1,637,094 (1.13%)
- Kazakhs 653,962 (0.45%)
- Azerbaijani 621,840 (0.43%)
- Yakuts 443,852 (0.31%)
- Kumyks 422,409 (0.29%)
- Tuvans 243,442 (0.17%)
- Karachays 192,182 (0.13%)
- Uzbeks 122,916 (0.08%)
- Balkars 108426 (0.07%)
- Turks 95,672 (0.06%)
- Nogais 90,666 (0.06%)
- Khakas 75,622 (0.05%)
- Altay peoples 67,239 (0.05%)
- Circassians 60,517 (0.04%)
- Turkmens 33,053 (0.02%)
- Kirghiz 31,808 (0.02%)
- Gagauz 12,210 (0.01%)
- Dolgans 7,261 (0.01%)
- Crimean Tatars 4,131 (0.00%)
- Tofalar 837 (0.00 %)
- Caucasian (total 3.30%)
- Chechens 1,360,253 (0.94%)
- Avars 814,473 (0.56%)
- Kabardians 519,958 (0.36%)
- Dargins 510,156 (0.35%)
- Ingush 413,016 (0.28%)
- Lezgins 411,535 (0.28%)
- Georgians 197,934 (0.14%)
- Laks 156,545 (0.11%)
- Tabasarans 131,785 (0.09%)
- Adyghe 128,528 (0.09%)
- Abazas 37,942 (0.03%)
- Rutuls 29,929 (0.02%)
- Aguls 28,297 (0.02%)
- Shors 13,975 (0.01%)
- Abkhaz 11,366 (0.01%)
- Tsakhurs 10,366 (0.01%)
- Uralic (1.91%)
- Mordvins 843,350 (0.58%)
- Udmurts 636,906 (0.44%)
- Mari 604,298 (0.42%)
- Komi 293,406 (0.20%)
- Komi-Permyak 125,235 (0.09%)
- Karelians 93,344 (0.06%)
- Nenets 41,302 (0.03%)
- Finns 34,050 (0.02%)
- Khanty 28,678 (0.02%)
- Estonians 28,113 (0.02%)
- Mansi 11,432 (0.01%)
- Vepses 8,240 (0.01%)
- Selkups 4,249 (0.00%)
- Yukaghir 1,509 (0.00%)
- Sami 1,991 (0.00%)
- Nganasans 834 (0.00%)
- Izhorians 314 (0.00%)
- Enets 237 (0.00%)
- Mongols (0.43%)
- Buryats 445,175 (0.31%)
- Kalmyks 173,996 (0.12%)
- Semitic peoples (0.17%)
- Jews 229,938 (0.16%)
- Assyrians 13,649 (0.01%)
- Koreans 148,556 (0.10%)
- Manchu-Tungus (0.02%)
- Evenks 35,527 (0.02%)
- Evens 19,071 (0.01%)
- Nanais 12,160 (0.01%)
- Ulchs 2,913 (0.00%)
- Udege 1,657 (0.00%)
- Orochs 686 (0.00%)
- Negidals 567 (0.00%)
- Oroks 346 (0.00%)
- Chukotko-Kamchatkan (0.02%)
- Chukchi 15,767 (0.01%)
- Koryak 8,743 (0.01%)
- Itelmeni 3,180 (0.00%)
- Chuvans 1,087 (0.00%)
- Nivkh 5,162 (0.00%)
- Eskimo-Aleut
- Eskimo 1,750 (0.00%)
- Aleut 540 (0.00%)
- Ket 1,494 (0.00%)
Some 1.6% of the population are ethnicities not native to the Russian territory. The census has an additional group of ’other’ ethnicities of 42,980 (0.03%).
Russia experiences a constant flow of immigration. On average, 200 thousand legal immigrants enter the country every year; about half are ethnic Russians from the other republics of the former Soviet Union. In addition, there are at least 1.5 million illegal immigrants in the country. There is a significant inflow of ethnic Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks, and Ukrainians into big Russian cities.
Languages
Russian is the common official language throughout the Russian Federation understood by 99% of its current inhabitants and widespread in many adjacent areas of Asia and Eastern Europe. National subdivisions of Russia have additional official languages. There more than 100 languages spoken in Russia.