Sverdlovsk Oblast - Demographics

Demographics

Population: 4,297,747 (2010 Census); 4,486,214 (2002 Census); 4,716,768 (1989 Census).

Ethnic groups

There were twenty-one recognized ethnic groups of more than two thousand persons each in the oblast. Residents identified themselves as belonging to a total of 148 different ethnic groups, including:

• 3,684,843 Russians:(90.6%);
• 143,803 Tatars:(3.5%);
• 35,563 Ukrainians:(0.9%);
• 31,183 Bashkirs:(0.8%);
• 23,801 Mari:(0.6%);
• 14,914 Germans:(0.4%);
• 14,215 Azeris:(0.3%);
• 13,789 Udmurts:(0.3%);
• 11,670 Belarusians:(0.3%);
• 11,510 Chuvash:(0.26%);
• 11,501 Armenians:(0.3%);
• 11,138 Tajiks:(0.3%);
• 9,702 Mordovians:(0.22%);
• 9,358 Uzbeks:(0.2%);
• 232,978 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.

• Births (2011): 58,054
• Deaths (2011): 60,740