Daily reported trends New infections. How Russia compares There is no one perfect statistic to compare the outbreaks different countries have experienced during this pandemic.
Total infections and deaths Total per population Average daily reported Average change from last week. What it tells you Gives the true human toll of the virus on a country. Infections in Europe.
Infections, globally. From January to March , the number of births shrank by about 4,, while the number of deaths increased the same amount. Russia's natural change in population over the past twenty-five years has been fairly unstable, decreasing in the early 90s, leveling out and then climbing beginning in before leveling out again.
Moscow is the largest city in Russia with a population of Saint Petersburg is the second largest Russian city, with 5. Interestingly, Russia is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, in part due to its harsh climate. The country has a population density of just 8. Ten other Russian cities have a population of more than a million people. The Census results are probably the most reliable indicator, but other estimates of the Russia population are available.
Rosstat, the official Government statistics agency, suggested that the population of Russia in was As you can see from the graphic, almost half of all Russians live in just two areas: the Central and Volga federal districts.
The further east you go --to Siberia and beyond -- the less dense the population is. The graphic also demonstrates that Russia is a fairly ethnically diverse country. In total, there are more than different ethnic groups in Russia. Russian is the official language of the country and spoken by almost everyone.
There are a total of 35 official languages in Russia, and more than a hundred other languages that do not have official recognition. Some are close to extinction. The Russian state religion is Orthodox Christianity. The Russian population has been steadily declining for almost two decades now. When the Soviet Union collapsed in , the population of Russia was recorded at ,, Over the next decade, the population decreased at a fairly steady rate of a half percent per year.
The causes for this were twofold. Firstly the number of people dying increased due to a fall in living standards, and among men who were hit hardest, alcoholism. The average life expectancy for women held fairly steady at 75 years, but Russian male life expectancy dropped dramatically to 63 years. Combined with this, birth rates fell sharply as well.
In an indication of potential things to come in Moscow—the epicenter of the Russian pandemic—Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced an unpopular vaccine mandate for city workers and a new partial lockdown from October 28 to November 7, with all nonessential workers ordered to remain home and nonessential businesses required to be closed, including schools.
The city also claims that it will use facial recognition to help identify violators and levy fines against Muscovites who do not abide by mask mandates while using public transportation, shopping at food and drug stores, and spending time in other public places.
The rampant distrust of Sputnik V among the Russian public is the result of preexisting vaccine hesitancy and a skeptical outlook on authority. Russian experts debate whether inoculation rates would be higher if Russia had allowed foreign-made vaccines to be distributed, rather than just domestically produced ones. Indeed, a number of Russians have traveled to places like Serbia and Armenia to gain access to other vaccines. Yet Russian policy decisions have made a bad situation even worse.
First, the Kremlin rushed the Sputnik V vaccine to market in the second half of , a year before its developers finished the third phase of clinical trials. Combined with low levels of medical sophistication, limited trust in political leaders, and a notoriously corrupt public health system, the growing domestic confusion over inoculation and vaccine hesitancy has become toxic.
With about 33 percent of Russians fully inoculated as of October 27, the country is roughly on par with Suriname and far lower than Azerbaijan about 43 percent , Argentina about 56 percent , Mongolia about 66 percent , and China about 76 percent. Finally, confusing and often contradictory messaging has undercut local public health campaigns. Russia has been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Officially, its total number of fatalities in the country ranks among the top in terms of global COVID fatalities.
But the actual death toll is likely far higher. Russian COVID mortality statistics are fuzzy; they generally include only deaths in which the virus was the primary cause and not just a contributing factor. If those latter cases were included, the Russian state statistical agency claims the total COVID mortality figure would be closer to , as of August The overlay of popular distrust, fatalism, and complacency have only exacerbated this grim reality.
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