Other highlights of the report include age factors – Russians are rapidly aging – 18% of the population are people over 60 years of age. The most “senior” ethnicities are Jews, Ukranians and Belarusians with the ratio being around 40%.
Moskovskiy Komsomolets takes a look at the changes in the Russian demographics from the ethnic standpoint. According to the latest report issued by “Demoskop” publication, in the last twenty years the composition of the Russian population has drastically changed: so-called ‘ethnic Russians’ are dying out while ethnic minorities are rapidly growing. Since 1989, the number people who declared their nationality to be Russian was reduced by almost 9 million. Ethnicity growing most rapidly is Armenians – their population in Russia has more than doubled to 1.1 million people. The runner-up is Chechens with a 50% increase to 1.4 million people. Bashkirs, Avars, Azerbaijanis, Ossetians, Kabardin, Uzbeks, Tajiks and Turks ethnicities are also becoming more populous on the territory of the Russian Federation. Along with Russians, declining ethnicities include Ukrainians, Tatars, Chuvash, Belarusians, Germans and Jews. The authors highlight that these changes are not necessarily strictly demographic – they can be linked with national self-identifications. Specifically, people of various ethnicities are now more likely to identify themselves with their native roots than with the “Russian ethnicity”. Other highlights of the report include age factors – Russians are rapidly aging – 18% of the population are people over 60 years of age. The most “senior” ethnicities are Jews, Ukranians and Belarusians with the ratio being around 40%. Most of the ethnicities that grow rapidly are also, logically, the most “young” nationalities.
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