page_title: Demographics of Russia
section_title: Natural increase
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of Russia / Total fertility rate issue / Natural increase
caption_attribution_description: English: Birth rate by regions in 2012.Русский: Рождаемость на 1000 в регионах России за 2012 год.
context_page_description: With a population of 142.8 million according to the 2010 census, which rose to 146.7 million as of 2020, Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous country in the world. Its population density stands at 9 inhabitants per square kilometre. The overall life expectancy in Russia at birth is 72.4 years. Since the 1990s, Russia's death rate has exceeded its birth rate. As of 2018, the total fertility rate across Russia was estimated to be 1.58 born per woman, one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, below the replacement rate of 2.1, and considerably below the high of 7.44 children born per woman in 1908. Consequently, the country has one of the oldest populations in the world, with an average age of 40.3 years.
  Russia is home to approximately 117 million ethnic Russians, and about 20 million ethnic Russians live outside of Russia in the former republics of the Soviet Union, mostly in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The 2010 census recorded 81% of the population as ethnically Russian, and 19% as other ethnicities: 3.7% Tatars; 1.4% Ukrainians; 1.1% Bashkirs; 1% Chuvashes; 11.8% others and unspecified.
context_section_description: Experts were puzzled in 2015 when a sharp increase in deaths coincided with a sharp increase in life expectancy. While they have found out that a decrease in potential mothers led to a decrease in births and a rapid rise in fertility.
  Data from Federal State Statistics Service in August 2020 showed:
  Number of births from January–June 2019 =  719,700
  Number of births from January–June 2020 =  681,000
  Number of deaths from January–June 2019 =  918,500
  Number of deaths from January–June 2020 =  946,500
  Natural increase between January–June 2019 =  –198,800
  Natural increase between January–June 2020 =  –265,500
caption: Birth rate by regions in 2012
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