5 Wacky Facts about Russia's People

Starting off for fact number one is Russia's population. Oh my had it not changed in the slightest. Since the collapse of the USSR, Russia's population has remained virtually the same, even decreasing. Currently their population stands at 142,257,519 people. This is less than the population of roughly 148.6 million people in 1991 (the year the USSR collapsed). I found this interesting because you would assume their population would grow after the collapse of the heavily in debt 1990's USSR. But it would appear that Russia is just trying to recover from the collapse and is having problems. Russia is a developed country though so it may just be falling to what other developed nations are experiencing. Going off of that we go onto fact number two. There are eleven births per one thousand of the population. But, there are thirteen and a half deaths per one thousand of the population. So, because of this the population is decreasing. But to quell this in a sense we have fact three. Immigration. Now, the immigration number isn't too high but still peaked my interest. From personal experience, I hear people trash on Russia and say it's a horrible nation, but they have a net migration of 1.7 per 1,000 people. It may not be a lot but people are at least interested in moving to this country and living there. Now onto fact number four, 74.4% of Russia's population is urban. This doesn't really connect to our lesson but I found it interesting either way because it has to do with one of our human geography questions, where are people distributed, and also because most of Russia is rural land and wilderness. Lastly, the age structure of Russia is interesting. There is a sharp decrease in the population in percentages with the age group of 15-24. While 17.12% of the population is 0-14, only 9.46%, but then nearly 50% of the population is 25-54 years old at 44.71%. It's interesting to me because you would think it be more gradually spread out but there are chunks and pieces and it might explain the population decrease. That is all, goodnight.