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USSR/Russian demographic developments of the century Calamitous population lossesCalamitous population losses Rapid urbanizationRapid urbanization Massive internal migrationsMassive internal migrations

Estimates of USSR/Russian Population calamities –WWI & Civil War -2 million –Epidemics million –Famines, human-induced -5.5 million –Forced collectivization - 10 million –Famines & Purges of the 1930s - 15 million –World War II - Direct losses millionDirect losses million Population indirect effects -birth deficits - 15 millionPopulation indirect effects -birth deficits - 15 million –Total population deficits including “echo effects total ~ 150 million by 1991

Population of Former Soviet Republics

Population of Largest Cities

Population Density & Cities

Fig 7.1 Former USSR distribution of population

Languages of the former USSR

Table 7.1 Russia: birth rates, death rates & rates of natural increase per 1000,

Table 7.2 Russia: birth rates, death rates, rates of natural increase per 1000,

Table 7.3, Birth, death & natural increase rates per 1000 population by selected region, 1995

Table 7.4 Migration trends in selected Russian regions, (in thousands

Fig 7.5 Development of Russian housing fund (millions of square meters)

Table 7.6 Russia: total and urban population (millions)

Table 7.7 Levels of urbanization across Russian economic regions, 1996 (in%)

Table 7.8 Size distribution of Russian urban settlements, 1996

Table 7.9 Level of urban development of Russian economic regions, 1989

Population pyramids 1989

Russia: Age-Sex Structure, January 1, 2001

Figure 7.2 Stalin’s projects Source: Blinnikov, 2011, p. 85.

Age-Sex Structure comparison

Population Pyramid of Russia, 2010

Figure 10.3 Population pyramid for Russia in Source: Blinnikov, 2011, p. 143.

Projected population pyramid, 2050

Russia’s Largest 20 cities (2009 pop.) 1MoscowМоскваMoscow11,800,992 2Saint PetersburgСанкт-ПетербургSaint Petersburg4,900,520 3NovosibirskНовосибирскNovosibirsk1,397,191 4YekaterinburgЕкатеринбургSverdlovsk1,332,264 5Nizhny NovgorodНижний НовгородNizhny Novgorod1,272,527 6SamaraСамараSamara1, KazanКазаньTatarstan1, OmskОмскOmsk1,129,120 9ChelyabinskЧелябинскChelyabinsk1,093,699 10Rostov-on-DonРостов-на-ДонуRostov1,048,991 11UfaУфаBashkortostan1,024,842 12VolgogradВолгоградVolgograd1,021,200 13PermПермьPerm985,794 14KrasnoyarskКрасноярскKrasnoyarsk 947,801 15VoronezhВоронежVoronezh843,496 16SaratovСаратовSaratov830,953 17TolyattiТольяттиSamara720,346 18KrasnodarКраснодарKrasnodar710,686 19IzhevskИжевскUdmurtia611,043 20YaroslavlЯрославльYaroslavl606,336 Rosstat (2009)

Russia: total fertility rate

Russia: Marriage and Divorce rates,

Russia: Share of births outside Marriage,

Russia: Abortion rate and ratio,

Russia: Life Expectancy by Sex,

Male Death Rates by Cause in Russia & the EU,