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Russian Federation: Population

Millions of people · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · pop

2025
144 millionpeople
Change on 2024
−0.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
−0.1%a year

Population

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
2031141.1Forecast
2030141.5Forecast
2029141.5Forecast
2028142.5Forecast
2027142.5Forecast
2026142.5Forecast
2025143.5
2024143.7
2023143.8
2022144.2
2021144.7
2020145.2
2019145.5
2018145.4
2017145.3
2016145.0

Sources

  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1800–1938
  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Flandreau & Zumer1885–1913
  • Maddison Project Database1950–2022
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1989–2025
  • Penn World Table1990–2019
  • United Nations1990–2024
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1992–2014
  • Gapminder (forecast)2023–2030
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Russian Federation documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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