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Rossiiskaya Gazeta
No. 247
December 20, 2001
[translation from RIA Novosti for personal use only]
RUSSIAN POPULATION CONTINUES TO DIMINISH
From January to October 2001, Russia's population decreased by 711,900 people, or 0.5 percent, the State Statistics Committee reported yesterday. As of November 1, 2001, the Russian population stood at 144,100,000 people.
Compared to last year, in 2001 the population has been decreasing faster: over the first ten months of 2000, it decreased by 611,200 people, or 0.4 percent.
In January-October 2001, immigration compensated for the natural loss of the population by only 7.7 percent. This correlation, "despite a decrease in the natural loss, resulted from a marked reduction (compared to January-October 2000) in the number of immigrants," the State Statistics Committee's report said.
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