page_title: Murmansk Oblast
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Murmansk Oblast / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Greenhouse of the botanical Garden in Kirovsk
context_page_description: Murmansk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country. Its administrative center is the city of Murmansk. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 795,409.
context_section_description: Population: 795,409 (2010 Census); 892,534 (2002 Census); 1,146,757 (1989 Census).
  The indigenous people of the area, the Saami, are only a tiny minority today. As of the 2002 Census, 92.2% of the oblast's population live in urban areas. The most populous city is the Oblast's administrative center, Murmansk, with 336,137 inhabitants.  Other large cities and towns include Severomorsk, Apatity, Kandalaksha, Monchegorsk, and Kirovsk.
  According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition of the oblast was as follows:
  Russians: 89%
  Ukrainians: 4.8%
  Belarusians: 1.7%
  Tatars: 0.8%
  Azeris: 0.5%
  Mordvins: 0.2%
  Karelians: 0.2%
  Komi: 0.2%
  Saami: 0.2%
  others: 2.4%
  73,484 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.
  Birth rate: 11.7 per 1000 (average for Russia is 13.30)
  Death rate: 11.2 per 1000
  Total fertility rate:
  In 2009, the urban areas were marked by natural population decline (−0.16% per year) and the rural areas were marked by natural population growth (+0.35% per year).
caption: The Polar Alpine Botanical Garden (Полярно-альпийский ботанический сад-институт) in Kirovsk
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