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According to the Russian Academy of Sciences the Soviet Union suffered 26.6 million deaths (1941–1945) during World War II, including an increase in infant mortality of 1.3 million. Total war-loss figures include territories annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939–1945.
Population distribution by country in 1939. This is a list of countries by population in 1939 (including any dependent, occupied or colonized territories for empires), providing an approximate overview of the world population before World War II.
The population of the Soviet Union was probably better prepared than any other nation involved in the fighting of World War II to endure the material hardships of the war. This is primarily because the Soviets were so used to shortages and coping with economic crisis in the past, especially during wartime—World War I brought similar ...
In 1993, the Russian Ministry of Defense report authored by a group headed by General G. F. Krivosheev detailed military casualties. [29] Their sources were Soviet reports from the field and other archive documents that were secret during the Soviet era, including a secret Soviet General Staff report from 1966 to 1968.
During World War II, Russia’s male-to-female population ratio became so skewed as millions lost their lives on the front lines that it went on to impact its birth rate several years after.
Russia has a low fertility rate with 1.42 children per woman in 2022, below 2.1 children per woman, which must be the number reached to maintain its population. [41] As a result of their low fertility for decades, the Russian population is one of the oldest in the world with an average of 40.3 years. [41]
population Share Males Share Females Share Largest city Second largest city Third largest city Ethnic Russians Share Ethnic minorities Notes 1926. 21 176 187 147 027 ...
The 1937 Soviet census held on January 6, 1937, was a censuses taken within the Soviet Union. The census showed lower population figures than anticipated [citation needed], although it still showed a population growth from the last census in 1926, from 147 million to 162 million people in 1937. After 10 days, the results of the census were ...