Where you could be born / Europe / Eastern Europe
Born in Russia
About 1 in 102 people born in 2023 started life in Russia. A boy can expect to live 67 years and a girl 79, up from 51 and 59 in 1950. Most people live in cities, and nearly everyone has basic drinking water.
Life and health
Life lasts about 18 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 161 in every 1,000 births to 4.4.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 2.9 children on average in 1950. Now it is 1.4, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Money and work
If every 100 coins of income were shared out, the richest fifth would hold 41 and the poorest fifth 8.
Daily life
The largest city is Moscow, with 10.4 million people.
Cities and regions
Every state, province and large city with a page.
Largest regions
Sourced: GeoNames Population of each state, province or region.
Large cities
- Moscow10.4 million
- Saint Petersburg5.4 million
- Novosibirsk1.6 million
- Yekaterinburg1.5 million
- Nizhniy Novgorod1.3 million
- Kazan1.2 million
- Chelyabinsk1.2 million
- Omsk1.2 million
- Samara1.2 million
- Rostov-on-Don1.1 million
- Ufa1.1 million
- Krasnoyarsk1.1 million
- Voronezh1.0 million
- Volgograd1.0 million
Sourced: GeoNames Cities with a page: a million people or more.
All 60 regions
- Moscow11.4 million
- St.-Petersburg5.9 million
- Moscow Oblast5.1 million
- Sverdlovsk Oblast3.7 million
- Krasnodar Krai3.5 million
- Rostov2.9 million
- Chelyabinsk2.8 million
- Tatarstan Republic2.8 million
- Bashkortostan Republic2.6 million
- Samara Oblast2.5 million
- Kuzbass2.4 million
- Nizhny Novgorod Oblast2.2 million
- Krasnoyarsk Krai2.2 million
- Novosibirsk Oblast2.1 million
- Perm Krai1.8 million
- Volgograd Oblast1.8 million
- Irkutsk Oblast1.8 million
- Stavropol Kray1.8 million
- Saratov Oblast1.7 million
- Voronezh Oblast1.6 million
- Primorye1.4 million
- Orenburg Oblast1.4 million
- Altai Krai1.3 million
- Khanty-Mansia1.3 million
- Omsk Oblast1.2 million
- Dagestan1.2 million
- Tula Oblast1.1 million
- Khabarovsk1.1 million
- Udmurtiya Republic1.1 million
- Vladimir Oblast1.0 million
- Tyumen Oblast1.0 million
- Yaroslavl Oblast1.0 million
- Leningradskaya Oblast'887,776
- Belgorod Oblast874,807
- Penza Oblast857,598
- Arkhangelskaya853,310
- Tver Oblast826,105
- Ulyanovsk814,189
- Tomsk Oblast783,576
- Kirov Oblast759,692
- Chuvash Republic748,061
- Ivanovo Oblast747,796
- Vologda Oblast740,304
- Lipetsk Oblast738,629
- Ryazan Oblast706,712
- Bryansk Oblast697,524
- Komi670,273
- Kaliningrad Oblast664,545
- Kursk Oblast652,938
- Astrakhan Oblast644,812
- Murmansk637,382
- Kaluga Oblast627,417
- Smolensk Oblast602,532
- Tambov Oblast572,270
- Chechnya496,508
- Zabaykalskiy (Transbaikal) Kray486,311
- Amur Oblast482,102
- Ingushetiya Republic462,275
- Kabardino-Balkariya Republic451,258
- Kurgan Oblast440,818
People on the move
About 6.3% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Ukraine, Germany, Uzbekistan.
Safety nets
100% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 62%.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in Russia, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Europe
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