Magadan Oblast - Demographics

Demographics

Population: 156,996 (2010 Census); 182,726 (2002 Census); 542,868 (1989 Census).

• Total Fertility Rate: 1.344 children per women (2008)
• Urban TFR: 1.300 children per women (2008)
• Rural TFR: 5.879 children per women (2008)
• Infant Mortality Rate: 14.2 per 1000 births (2007)
• Urban Infant Mortality Rate: 12.9 per 1000 births (2007)
• Rural Infant Mortality Rate: 34.8 per 1000 births (2007) (highest in all of Russia).

Ethnic groups: According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition was:

• 127,936 Russians (84.1%);
• 9,857 Ukrainians (6.5%);
• 2,635 Evens (1.7%);
• 1,415 Tatars (0.9%);
• 1,121 Belarusians (0.8%);
• 4,930 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.