Declining population trajectories: Russia and Her Uralic Minorities
Journal: Uralica Helsingiensia
Year: 2025

In the early 1990s, Russia’s population entered a period of negative growth. Since then the number of deaths has almost uninterruptedly exceeded the number of births and net migration has mostly not been large enough to compensate for the natural decrease (excess of deaths over births). Taken together, the Uralic peoples form a nearly two-million-strong and internally heterogeneous fraction of the country’s population. Beginning from the first post-World War II census conducted in 1959, this pap