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 Russia is 144,498,215 excluding Crimea, whose annexation is not recognized by the overwhelming majority of the international community. Including Crimea and Sevastopol, the population was 146,804,372 on January 1, 2017. Around 77% of its population lives in European Russia, while the 23% lives in its Asian part. As of 2015, Russian TFR of 1.777 children per woman was the highest in Eastern, Southern and Central Europe.