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In 2016, Svalbard had a population of 2,667, of which 423 were Russian and Ukrainian, 10 Polish, and 322 other non-Norwegians living in Norwegian settlements. [21] The largest non-Norwegian groups in Longyearbyen in 2005 were from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Thailand.
In particular, population growth strained the resources of rural populations, where usable land was already limited. With more children to support, farms were successively split into smaller plots to be divided among descendants, and families were increasingly unable to sustain themselves from their own land.
This is a list of countries and dependent territories in the Americas by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections.
The United Nations Statistics Division also uses this code, but has named it the Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands. Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean under the sovereignty of Norway, but is subject to the special status granted by the Svalbard Treaty .
Longyearbyen (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈlɔ̀ŋjɛrˌbyːən], [2] locally [ˈlɔ̀ŋjɑrˌbyːən], "Longyear Town") is the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000, and the largest inhabited area of Svalbard, Norway.
This is a list of North American countries and dependencies by population in North America, total projected population from the United Nations [1] and the latest official figure. Map [ edit ]
Although Svalbard is in Norwegian territory, and its government controls 99.5% of its land, there’s a sizable Russian presence in the archipelago, thanks to a treaty dating back to 1920 that ...
The Census Bureau showed a population increase of 0.98% for the twelve-month period ending in July 2024, [21] slightly below the world estimated annual growth rate of 1.03%. [22] The total fertility rate (TFR) in 2024 was around 1.84 children per woman, [5] which is below the replacement fertility rate of approximately 2.1.