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Russia, as the largest country in the world, has great ethnic diversity.It is a multinational state and home to over 190 ethnic groups countrywide. According to the population census at the end of 2021, more than 147.1 million people lived in Russia, which is 4.3 million more than in the 2010 census, or 3.03%.
TFR of Russia from 1843 to 2016. In many of the years from 1843 to 1917, Russia had the highest total fertility rate in the world. [36] These elevated fertility rates did not lead to population growth due to high mortality rate, the casualties of the Russian Revolution, the two world wars and to a lesser extent the political killings.
Among 85 subjects which constitute the Russian Federation, there are 21 national republics (meant to be home to a specific ethnic minority), 5 autonomous okrugs (usually with substantial or predominant ethnic minority) and an autonomous oblast. The table below gives the population of various ethnic groups of Russia according to the 2002 Russian ...
After the Russian Revolution in 1917, many Russians who were identified with the White army moved to China — most of them settling in Harbin and Shanghai. [73] By the 1930s, Harbin had 100,000 Russians. Many of these Russians moved back to the Soviet Union after World War II. Today, a large group in northern China still speak Russian as a ...
The suicide rate in Russia is the third-highest in the world, [8] and similar trends have been noted in 2020 about doctors who have treated COVID-19 patients falling from high windows. [8] Suicides could be further increased especially in the Russian business community due to substantial pressure from the war in Ukraine and international ...
In this third wave alone, nearly 300,000 Russian citizens had left Russia before 27 September, [35] with that number approaching 400,000 by 4 October. [1] [36] An upper estimate is for 700,000 Russians to have fled conscription since it was announced. [37] Many went to Kazakhstan, Serbia, [38] Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Georgia, and ...
Two and a half years into their nation’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russians seem to be less affected by the war than they were in 2022.
Russian is spoken by 29.6% of the population, according to a 2011 estimate from the World Factbook. [35] Ethnic Russians are 25.5% of the country's current population [49] and 58.6% of the native Estonian population is also able to speak Russian. [50] In all, 67.8% of Estonia's population could speak Russian. [50]