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Population Geography of Russia[edit]
Main article: Demography of Russia

As of 2018, Russia has a population of 146.9 million people. This means the Russian population is 1.89% of the world's total population, meaning Russia has the 9th largest population of any country in the world. Population density in Russia is 9 per Km2 (23 people per mi2).


 * The current population of the Russian Federation is 143,954,825 as of Thursday, November 22, 2018, based on the latest United Nations estimates.
 * Russia population is equivalent to 1.89% of the total world population.
 * Russia ranks number 9 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.
 * The population density in Russia is 9 per Km2 (23 people per mi2).
 * The total land area is 16,376,870 Km2 (6,323,142 sq. miles)
 * 72.8 % of the population is urban (104,741,046 people in 2018)
 * The median age in Russia is 38.9 years.
 * yearly growth rate is -0.02

Migration Rate[edit]
Russia has a migration rate of 1.7 migrants per 1,000 citizens. Russia is ranked 52nd in the world in this regard.

what are the things that draw migrants?

What factors push people to leave the country?

How mobile is the population? Link to history of migration and immigration in Russia. Stats on Migration and Immigration, stating the border with the highest migration rate, commenting on the migration in the eastern borders like mongolia and china. A sentence or two about factors which push people to leave the country.Sophia838 (talk) 15:56, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Health of Population
What natural hazards do people face?

medical health...

Natural hazards Volcanic activity in the Kuril Islands and volcanoes and earthquakes on the Kamchatka peninsula are other natural hazards.

number one cause of death for males, for females, life expectancy, infant mortality rate.

Unemployment rate[edit]
Considering the total population, the unemployment is 5.5%. For Russian youths aged 15-24, the unemployment rate for males is 15.4%, 17% for females, and a total unemployment rate of 16.1%. These statistics make Russia ranked 85th in the world.

Population distribution[edit]
Russia's capital, Moscow, has 12.166 million people; Saint Petersburg 4.993 million; Novosibirsk 1.497 million; Yekaterinburg 1.379 million; Nizhniy Novgorod 1.212 million; and Samara 1.164 million. This makes Moscow not only the most populated city in Russia but also the sixth most populated city in the world. As of 2017, 74.29 percent of the population is urbanized

Cultural Geography

Ethnicity[edit]
Russia's distributions of ethnicities are as follows; 77.7% Russian, 3.7% Tatar, 1.4% Ukrainian, 1.1% Bashkir, 1% Chuvash, 1% Chechen, 10.2 % Other, 3.9% Unspecified.

Language[edit]
About 81 percent of Russia society speak Russian as their main language, but many of the citizens also speak English as a secondary language.

About 81 percent of Russia society speak Russian as their main language, but many of the citizens also speak English as a secondary language[11]. Russia is, also, a society dominated by at least 100 different minority languages within its regional areas. Its most popular minority language is Dolgang. [11] Russian is is the most widely spread out of the Slavic languages. For example, Russian is the seventh most spoken language in the world. It is one of the six official languages spoken in the United States, as well. Russian belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four languages of the East Slavic language. Sophia838 (talk) 16:10, 24 November 2018 (UTC)from the sandbox

check out the ethnologue. Top 3 languages spoken, top 1 foreign language learned in school (English) Official language, governmental languages (are other languages allowed) language of native people vs immigrants. Sophia838 (talk) 17:23, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Religion[edit]
Russia's life has always been centered around religion. There are 5,000 religious associations registered in Russia and more than half follow the Russian Orthodox Church. Islam is the second largest religion with Christianity being the third.

See: Religion in Russia Orthodox Church, Islam, Atheists and agnostics, ........ There is also a wide diversity, with Tibetan Buddism 86% in the Tuva Republic (a state within Russia), Islam practiced heavily in certain southern Republics, etc. http://sreda.org/arena