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Population pyramid of the Soviet Union in 1950. After the Second World War, the population of the Soviet Union began to gradually recover to pre-war levels. By 1959 there were a registered 209,035,000 people, over the 1941 population count of 196,716,000. In 1958–59, Soviet fertility stood at around 2.8 children per woman. [2]
The following is a summary of censuses carried out in the Soviet Union: Year Territory (km 2) Total population Rank Density per km 2 Change Urban population Share ...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. . During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous co
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.
That claim of 170 million is estimated to have been inflated by around 3,000,000 people, or 1.8%. [4] Analysis of the results from the Kazakh SSR especially shows this, in which serious distortions of the ethnic Kazakh population took place in an attempt to conceal population losses from the Kazakh famines of the 1920s and 30s. [9]
The new census announced the Soviet Union's population to be 208,826,650, [4] an increase of almost forty million from the results of the last (disputed) census from 1939. [5] A majority of this population increase was due to the Soviet territorial expansion of the 1939–1945 time period, rather than due to natural population growth. [6]
Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia. For more information, see the articles Russian citizens ( Russian : россияне , romanized : rossiyane ), Russians ( Russian : русские ...
In 1939, the total area of Polish territories occupied by the Soviet Union (including the area given to Lithuania and annexed in 1940 during the formation of Lithuanian SSR), was 201,015 square kilometres, with a population of 13.299 million, of which 5.274 million were ethnic Poles and 1.109 million were Jews.