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.
Throughout most of the second half of the 20th century, Russiaâs population increased. Whereas the Russian population was slightly more than 100 million in 1950, it peaked at nearly 149 million by the early 1990s. Since then, the population has declined, and official reports put it at around 144 million.