Krasnoyarsk Krai - Demographics

Demographics

Population (including former Taymyr and Evenk Autonomous Okrugs): 2,828,187 (2010 Census); 3,023,525 (2002 Census); 3,596,260 (1989 Census).

Ethnic groups: The population of the krai mostly consists of Russians, and some other peoples of the former Soviet Union. The indigenous Siberian peoples make up no more than 1% of the population.

The 2010 Census reported the following ethnic composition:

• Russians: 91.3%
• Ukrainians: 1.4%
• Tatars: 1.3%
• Germans: 0.8%
• Azeri: 0.6%
• Belarusians: 0.4%
• Chuvash: 0.4%
• others: 2.5%
• 100,621 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 (Jan-Aug 2009): 25,520 (13.3 per 1000)
• Deaths (Jan-Aug 2009): 25,183 (13.1 per 1000)

As of August 2009, Krasnoyarsk Krai recorded a natural growth of population for the first time in 16 years.