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The UN is projecting that the decline that started in 2021 will continue, and if current demographic conditions persist, Russia's population will be 120 million in 50 years, a decline of about 17%. [39] [38] In January 2024, the Russian statistics agency Rosstat predicted that Russia's population could drop to 130 million by 2046. [40]
Stamp depicting Russian soldier killed in Ukraine. The war in that country has further exacerbated Russia's demographic crisis. [89] The decline in Russia's total population is among the largest in numbers, but not in percentage. After having peaked at 148,689,000 in 1991, the population then decreased, falling to 142,737,196 by 2008. [90]
The contemporary population of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania numbered 3.6 million, with Ruthenians constituting the majority (see Demographic history of Poland). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] As the population of Muscovy was growing the size of the average peasant allotment declined (though there were significant regional variations) and the wages declined as ...
The demographic trend spells trouble for Russia's economy, which is already dealing with a severe worker shortage. At the end of 2023, Russia was short a record 5 million workers, according to an ...
Russia has now been at war with Ukraine for two and a half years, causing mortality in the country to spike and exacerbating its population crisis. The invasion has also prompted a mass exodus ...
Russia's birth rate hit a 25-year low in the first half of 2024, with 599,600 births. The demographic crisis worsened due to the Ukraine war, causing many to delay having children.
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by land area, and extends across eleven time zones; sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous country in the world.
The 2021 Russian census (Russian: Всероссийская перепись населения 2021 года, romanized: Vserossiyskaya perepis naseleniya 2021 goda, lit. '2021 All-Russian population census') was the first census of the Russian Federation population since 2010 and the third after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It took ...