As of the 2021 census, the population of Russia was 147.2 million. It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre. As of 2020, the overall life expectancy in Russia at birth was 71.54 years.
Thousands of abandoned villages are scattered across Russia.
Metallurg, a Soviet-era sanatorium in Sochi
Annunciation Cathedral in Voronezh
Moscow State University, the most prestigious educational institution in Russia.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, social and demographic changes in the Russian Federation, stemming from under the Soviet Union, led the country towards an aging population, often described in media as a "demographic crisis".
Thousands of abandoned villages are scattered across Russia.
Russian soldier killed in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has further exacerbated Russia's demographic crisis.