The learned professor assumes that while a long-continued war had strengthened rather than weakened the instinct of paternal devotion , it had also dulled other humanitarian instincts , and raised to the first magnitude the law of the survival of the fittest , with the result that when the exodus took place the strong , the intelligent , and the ...
Yearly Population Growth Rate 1  (%) The current population of the Russian Federation is 143,387,960 as of Wednesday, April 19, 2017, based on the latest United Nations estimates. 2  Russia population is equivalent to 1.91% of the total world population. 3  Russia ranks number 9 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.
In total, 160 different ethnic groups live within the Russian Federation's borders. Russia's population density is 8.4 people per square kilometre (22 per square mile), making it one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. The population is most dense in the European part of the country, with milder climate, centering on Moscow and Saint Petersburg.