Russia Population 2024

Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated and urbanized countries. Russia also called Russian Federation(Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Rossiya) is a country stretches over Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Russia population in 2024 is estimated to be 146.74 million, covering area over 17,125,191 sq km (6,612,073 sq mi), It is the largest country in the world and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's area. Once it was republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R., popularly known as the Soviet Union), Russia became an independent country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Most of the population is concentrated in European region of the country surrounding Russia capital is Moscow and the popular cities include St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Samara and Ufa. The population is also spread across the Asia regions of cities such as Vladivostok and Irkutsk. Russia region has a total of 11 time zones and incorporating rivers, landforms from deserts to deep forests, Volga is Europe's longest river and its largest lake, Ladoga. Baikal is the world's deepest lake. There are more than 120 ethnic groups present in Russia, with diverse, religions and cultural traditions. Russia is bordered by 14 countries, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, and Ukraine and also shares maritime borders with Japan, Sweden, Turkey, and the United States.

Russia Population Indicators
Fertility rate is 1.8 births per woman in 2017.

Income Distribution

Russia is the world's eleventh-largest economy by nominal GDP , It has a mixed economy, with enormous natural resources of oil and natural gas, In 2016, the oil and gas sector accounted for 36% of federal budget revenues. Russia's agriculture sector contributes about 5% of the country's total GDP, labour force of roughly 70 million. It was the sixteenth-most visited country in the world, and the tenth-most visited country in Europe, in 2018, with over 24.6 million visits.

Religions in Russia

Religion in Russia is diverse with Christianity, especially Russian Orthodoxy being the most widely professed faith, other spiritual contribution of the Russian people are Islam, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Protestant and Buddhism. Orthodox Christian believers constituted 71% of the total population of Russia. Catholicism was the religion practices about 0.1% of the total population, Muslims in Russia were about 6.5% of the population, Buddhism was practiced by 0.5% of the population.

Languages in Russia

Russian, the most widely spoken language, Russia is a diverse, multiethnic society. There are 35 languages which are considered official languages in various regions of Russia, along with Russian, more than 120 ethnic groups, other 100 minority languages spoken in Russia.

Russia is a country with a low population density with approximately 8.5 people per sq km, compared with Germany 226 people per sq km, and the USA about people per sq km. Russia population in 2023 is estimated to be 146.21 million, population in 2022 is estimated to be 146.5 million, and in 2021 is estimated to be 146 million.

The Russian Federation constitutionally consists of 85 federal subjects. In 1993, when the current Constitution of Russia was adopted, there were 89 federal subjects listed. By 2008, the number of federal subjects had been decreased to 83 because of several mergers. In 2014, Sevastopol and the Republic of Crimea became the 84th and 85th federal subjects of Russia. These are the constituent entities of Russia, Its top-level political divisions according to the Constitution of Russia. Subjects shall have equal rights as constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The Russian Federation consists of republics, krais, oblasts and cities, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs. Federal subjects shall have their own constitution/charter and legislation. Every subject of the Russian Federation has its own president/governor/head as executive branch, regional parliament as legislative branch and regional constitutional/charter court as higher judicial branch in a region.

Geographically, Russia consists of two parts, European Russia and Asian Russia. Regions of Russia is divided into Central, European North, North-West, European South (Northern Caucasus), the Volga region and the Ural region as part of European Russia. Asian Russia consists of Western Siberia, Eastern Siberia and the Far East. Asian Russia is larger than European Russia, but the population is small. In European Russia area is smaller but larger proportion of population.

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