World population/Russia
Europe
Population of Russia
143,394,457
Growing by -0.01 people every second
#9
world rank
1.73%
of world population
-0.24%
yearly change
-350,335
people this year
1,213,374
births a year
1,868,411
deaths a year
How the figure for Russia is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Russia at 143,394,457 on 1 July 2026, and projects 143,044,122 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people lost every second.
That places Russia number 9 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 1.73 per cent of everyone alive, and among the largest of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 1,213,374 births and 1,868,411 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.