Disclaimer

Throughout this blog I have used 23 images. I do not claim that these images are mine. I have sourced all these images from google images.

Population

Russia has a population of 143,500,000(9th worldwide), this figure has been in decline since 1991 when the Soviet Union was dissolved but has been on the increase since 2009. This increase is due to inward migration from surrounding nations mostly CIS nations. President Putin predicts a population of 146,000,000 by 2025, although a sizeable amount of this increase is due to immagrants it is also due to natural increase in ethnic Russians. At the moment 81% of Russia's population is comprised of ethnic Russians. Russia's birth rate has been increasing and the death rate has been declining due to the government attacking the demographic issue that became apperant in the early 1990's.

Russia's birth rate stands at 13.3 per 1000 people in 2010 this is well above the EU average of 9.9 per 1000. Currently the Russian government is trying to tackle the high death rate in the country (13.3 per 100) and if this is substantially lowered Russia can turn its recent population increases into large increases that will help keep the nation healthy and powerful into the future.

Russia has a very low population density of 8.4 per km2, 73% of the population lives in urban areas while 27% lives in rural areas. The majority of people in Russia live in the European part of the country and a narrow band across southern Siberia.

Yekaterinburg

Russia has some very large cities, these are the top five by population...

Moscow                11,514,00

St.Petersburg         5,227,000

Novosibirsk           1,473,000

Yekaterinburg        1,350,000

Nizhny Novgorod  1,250,000