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.
As of 1 January 2017, the population of Russian Federation was estimated to be 146 389 999 people. This is an increase of 0.04 % (59 995 people) compared to population of 146 330 004 the year before. In 2016 the natural increase was negative, as the number of deaths exceeded the number of live births by 168 280.