|
Tsar-Russia
|
Soviet Union
|
1500
1550
1600
1650 |
6.0
11.0
13.0 - 15.0
15.0 |
1820
1830
1840
1850 |
48.6
56.1
62.4
68.5 |
1917
1926
1931
1939 |
184.6
147.0
161.0
170.5 |
1722
1750
before 1789 |
14.0
23.0
25.0 |
1860
1870
1880 |
74.1
84.5
97.7 |
1940
1950
1960 |
191.7
181.0
214.2 |
|
1795
1800
1810
1815 |
29.0
35.5
40.7
45.0 |
1890
1900
1910
|
117.8
132.9
160.7
|
1970
1980
1990
2000 |
242.8
265.5
288.6
(290.5) |
In this section Eastern Europe is defined as the territory of
old Tsar-Russia and the former Soviet Union. This Russia was a large but scarcely
populated country on the outskirts of Europe until the 18th century.
It was Peter the Great who transformed Russia into a major European power and he
and his successors expanded Russia to the west. But Russia did not have the largest
population in Europe at that time, it was the rapid population growth during the 19th
century that made Russia to the giant state that dominated Europe’s modern
history. The First World War ended in disaster with great losses of territory
and the communist revolution 1917 transformed the country into the Soviet Union.
This state re-conquered several of the lost territories during the Second World
War, but a chronic bad economy prompted its dissolution 1991. The Soviet Union
was then replaced by the considerably smaller Russian Federation.
|
|
Russian
Federation |
Belarus |
Ukraine |
Moldavia |
Transnistria |
1926
1931
1939
1960 |
93.5
111.2
109.3
118.9 |
5.0
5.2
5.6
8.1 |
29.0
31.4
40.0
41.9 |
3.4
2.9 |
|
1970
1979
1990 |
130.1
137.6
148.0 |
9.0
9.5
10.3 |
47.7
49.8
51.8 |
3.6
3.9
4.4 |
|
|
1990
2000
2010
2020 |
148.0
146.6
142.9
146.5* |
10.2
10.0
9.5
9.4 |
51.8
49.4
46.0
41.9* |
4.4
3.6
3.6
|
0.7
0.5
0.5 |
Figures in blue are
taken from "International Historical Statistics" by
B. R. Mitchell (1998). Figures in purple are
collected from English Wikipedia's
articles on each country's demography. Transnistria
is a break-away republic which is legally a part of Moldavia but is here listed
separately from the year 2000.
* =
The figures for 2020 count the 2.4
million inhabitants on the Crimean peninsula as a part of Russia
and not Ukraine because it has been under Russian occupation since 2014.
Russian Provinces and Soviet Republics
| |
1811 |
1838 |
1851 |
1863 |
1885 |
1897 |
1914 |
Bessarabia
Caucasus
Turkestan |
0.300 |
0.790 |
0.874
2.7 |
1.0
4.2 |
1.5
7.3
3.7 |
1.9
9.3
5.3 |
2.7
12.7
7.1 |
| |
1926 |
1931 |
1939 |
1960 |
1970 |
1979 |
1990 |
|
Georgia |
2.7 |
2.9 |
3.5 |
4.0 |
4.7 |
5.0 |
5.5 |
|
Armenia |
0.9 |
1.0 |
1.3 |
1.8 |
2.5 |
3.0 |
3.3 |
|
Azerbaijan |
2.3 |
2.5 |
3.2 |
3.7 |
5.1 |
6.0 |
7.1 |
|
Kazakhstan |
6.1 |
7.1 |
6.1 |
9.3 |
13.0 |
14.7 |
16.7 |
|
Uzbekistan |
4.6 |
4.7 |
6.3 |
8.1 |
11.8 |
15.4 |
20.3 |
|
Turkmenistan |
1.0 |
1.1 |
1.3 |
1.5 |
2.2 |
2.8 |
3.6 |
|
Kyrgyzstan |
1.0 |
1.1 |
1.5 |
2.1 |
2.9 |
3.5 |
4.4 |
|
Tajikistan |
1.0 |
1.2 |
1.5 |
2.0 |
2.9 |
3.8 |
5.3 |
Most of Bessarabia became the Soviet republic of Moldavia. Caucasus consisted of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Turkestan consisted of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Read about Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on this page.
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