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Today the population of the 15 former Soviet republics is around 299 million, with much of this growth attributed to the Central Asian states, which have increasing fertility, and in a smaller part Azerbaijan and Russia. Estonia, Belarus, Armenia and Georgia have also recorded some positive growth in
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the recent years. Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia and Lithuania are in continuous decline in population since early 1990s, although Ukraine's decline seemed to stabilise in early 2010s, before the Ukrainian crisis. Since 2019 Lithuania seems to appear some first signs of stabilisation around 2.8 million.
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The last two national censuses (held in 1979 and 1989) showed that the country had been experiencing an average annual increase of about 2.5 million people, although it was a slight decrease from a figure of around 3 million per year in the previous intercensal period, 1959–1970. This post-war
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In 1990, the Soviet Union was more populated than both the United States and Canada together, having some 40 million more inhabitants than the U.S. alone. However, after the
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of 1936–1938. The previous postwar censuses, conducted in 1959, 1970 and 1979, had enumerated 208,826,650, 241,720,134, and 262,436,227 inhabitants, respectively.
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that followed the dissolution, that have tended to reduce even more the already decreasing
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increase had contributed to the USSR's partial demographic recovery from the significant
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website (it includes the demographic evolution of the Soviet Union's population).
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In 1989, about half of the Soviet Union's total population lived in the
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Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year 1991, Soviet Union, page 720.
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stagnated at around 290 million inhabitants for the period 1995–2000.
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John C. Dewdney, "Population change in the Soviet Union, 1979-1989,"
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The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Largest cities of the USSR according to the 1989 census.
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in late 1991, the combined population of the 15 former
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This significant slowdown may in part be due to the
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2470:Central Bank 2388:Forced labor 2336:Spetsnaz GRU 2156:organisation 2064:Human rights 2013:Constitution 1896:Subdivisions 1774:Russian SFSR 1730:Soviet Union 1678: 1522: 1417: 1406: 1399: 1383:Demoscope.ru 1382: 1373: 1365: 1357: 1353: 1314: 1304: 1300: 1296: 1291: 1278:Soviet Union 1222: 1143:Azerbaijanis 1067:145,155,489 1051:285,742,511 1046: 1001: 996: 991: 986: 981:Soviet Union 971: 929: 887: 845: 803: 761: 719: 677: 635: 593: 551: 509: 467: 425: 383: 359:147,400,537 356:137,551,000 351:Russian SFSR 341: 275: 264: 253: 241:World War II 229: 221:Russian SFSR 218: 205:Soviet Union 185: 183: 159:Estonian SSR 138:Russian SFSR 101:Soviet Union 38: 2731:Phraseology 2676:Prohibition 2664:Linguistics 2649:Drug policy 2642:1989 census 2563:Cybernetics 2465:Agriculture 2378:Great Purge 2340:Soviet Navy 2332:Soviet Army 2204:(1989–1991) 2198:(1938–1991) 2192:(1922–1936) 2176:Secretariat 2047:Gun control 1954:Caspian Sea 1938:Closed city 1867:Dissolution 1852:Perestroika 1794:Great Purge 1227:35,292,310 1115:10,036,251 1111:Belarusians 1099:16,697,825 1083:44,186,006 1031:1989 Census 992:286,730,819 987:262,436,000 527:10,199,709 519:Byelorussia 485:16,536,511 482:14,684,000 443:19,905,158 440:15,391,000 401:51,706,742 398:49,755,000 319:1989 Census 310:1979 Census 271:birth rates 249:Great Purge 209:1990 census 141:147,400,537 87:Census Logo 2890:Categories 2771:Opposition 2761:Television 2741:Propaganda 2714:Literature 2588:Naukograds 2583:Sharashkas 2517:(currency) 2495:Inventions 2438:Censorship 2368:Red Terror 2052:Government 1926:Autonomous 1909:Autonomous 1842:Stagnation 1805:Evacuation 1409:, Ithaca: 1284:References 1211:3,981,045 1195:4,215,372 1179:4,623,232 1163:6,648,760 1147:6,770,403 1131:8,135,818 1079:Ukrainians 1037:Percentage 997:24,294,819 947:1,572,916 944:1,466,000 905:2,680,029 902:2,521,000 863:3,287,677 860:3,031,000 821:3,533,925 818:2,759,000 779:3,689,779 776:3,398,000 737:4,290,442 734:3,529,000 695:4,337,592 692:3,947,000 656:1,307,576 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Russian
lit.
Soviet Union
1990 census
Russian SFSR
Ukrainian SSR
population loss
Great Patriotic War
World War II
Stalin
Great Purge
dissolution of the Soviet Union
Soviet republics
remarkable socio-economic changes
birth rates
Largest cities of the USSR according to the 1989 census.
Russian SFSR
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Byelorussia
Azerbaijan
Georgia

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