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.
Russia's population peaked in the early 1990s (at the time of the end of the Soviet Union) with about 148 million people in the country. Today, Russia's population is approximately 143 million. The United States Census Bureau estimates that Russia's population will decline from the current 143 million to a mere 111 million by 2050, a loss of more than 30 million people and a decrease of more than 20%.