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Tuesday, 12.04.2011
Russia's population shrinks, Moscow is growing
Moscow. The Russian population in total is shrinking, albeit slower than expected. Meanwhile, more and more people move to Moscow. This is the result of the 2010 official census, which was published in the end of March.
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Compared to the figures of the census in 2002, Russian population has decreased by only 1.6 percent to 142,904 million people. Between 1989 and 2002 the population had shrunk by 1.8 percent.
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In the meantime, Moscow grew by 10.9 percent during the period of 2002 and 2010. The official figure of people permanently living in Moscow in 2010 is 11,514 million. This is approximately eight percent of the total Russian population, not taken into account the Moscow region.
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According to the statisticians there are 4,848 million, or 3,4 percent of the total population, living in St Petersburg. The population of St Petersburg rose by 3,4 percent since 2002. In the case of St Petersburg, it is also necessary to add the population of the St Petersburg region, in order to assess the importance of this for the whole of Russia.
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High costs - many refuse census
In reality, the census data (at a cost of 17 billion rubels, ˆ425 million)is relatively inaccurate, as accross all regions there were many objections. Up to 20 percent of the population refused to provide their data.
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Enormous exodus from Siberia
While the population rate around Moscow and St Petersburs and the European part of russia is still relatively stable, there is a mass exodus from the Urals, sibiria and the Far East.
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In the Ural region, the population decreased by 2.4 percent to 12,08 million, in Siberia by 4 percent to 19.25 million and in the Russian Far East even by 6 percent, so that now only 6,29 million people are living in the vicinity of Japan, Korea and China.
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Population growth in the Caucasus
Meanwhile, the population in the predominantly Muslim North Caucasus has, due to a babyboom, increased by 6,3 percent to 9,49 million in 2010.
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Fewer Women, more men
In the last eight years, the relationship between women and men barely changed throughout Russia. In 2010 there were 46.3 percent men (2002 - 46.6 percent) and 53.7 percent women (2002 - 53.4 percent)
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