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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%. [33] [32] In January 2024, the Russian statistics agency Rosstat predicted that Russia's population could drop to 130 million by 2046. [34]
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1] This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]
The national 1 July, mid-year population estimates (usually based on past national censuses) supplied in these tables are given in thousands. The retrospective figures use the present-day names and world political division: for example, the table gives data for each of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, as if they had already been independent in 1950.
The Russian population is shrinking at an alarming rate, which could change the fabric of its society. The country recorded its lowest birth rate in the past 25 years for the first six months of ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Navy Day Parade in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in July 2022. Contributor/Getty Images Russia's population could shrink by half by the end of the century ...
Russia: Inaugurated: February 9, 1897; 127 years ago () Most recent: October 1, 2021; 3 years ago () Next event: 2031: Organised by: Ministry of Internal Affairs (1897–1917) Central Statistical Directorate (1918–1987) State Committee for Statistics (1987–1991) Federal State Statistics Service (since 1991) Website: gks.ru
Russia at the end of the 19th century was a country with a young population: the number of children significantly exceeded the number of the elderly. Up to 1938, the population of the Soviet Union remained "demographically young", but later, since 1959, began its demographic ageing: the proportion of young age began to decline, and the elderly started to increase, which was the result of lower ...
The Day of Five Billion, 11 July 1987, was designated by the United Nations Population Fund as the approximate day on which the world population reached five billion. Matej Gašpar from Zagreb , Croatia (then SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ), was chosen as the symbolic 5-billionth person alive on Earth .