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  • Population......................................................................140,702,096 (July 2008 est.)
  • Population growth rate .............................................................-0.474% (2008 est.)
  • Birth rate.....................................................11.03 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Death rate................................................16.06 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................0.28 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Ethnic groups.......Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census)

Migration Dilemmas Haunt Post-Soviet Russia
As Russia enters the 21st century, it is confronting a set of migration issues unimaginable just a decade ago. Timothy Heleniak of the World Bank and Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies maps out the complex past and difficult present of the world's largest country.

Russia Beckons, But Diaspora Wary

Cross-Border Human Flows in Northeast Asia

Russia page on the World Migration Map

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Russia Russian State Committee for Statistics
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US Census Bureau International Data Base
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