Arkhangelsk Oblast - Demographics

Demographics

Population: 1,227,626 (2010 Census); 1,336,539 (2002 Census); 1,570,256 (1989 Census).

Ethnic composition (2010):

• Russians: 95.6%
• Ukrainians: 1.4%
• Nenets: 0.6%
• Belarusians: 0.5%
• Komi: 0.4%
• Tatars: 0.2%
• Others: 1.3%
• 25,682 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.

Vital statistics for 2007 (see Total fertility rates by federal subjects of Russia#Natural Growth by Federal Subjects in 2007):

• Birth rate: 11.77 per 1000 (Average for Russia is 11.30)
• Death rate: 14.67 per 1000
• Net immigration: -3.7 per 1000
• NGR: -0.29% per Year
• PGR: -0.66% per Year
• Births (2008): 15,404
• Deaths (2008): 18,653

A notable subgroup of Russian population are the Pomors, who reside along the White Sea coast and in the valleys of major rivers, speak Pomor dialects and are in fact the descendants of the Novgorod population who colonized the Russian North in 12th–13th centuries. In 2002 Census, approximately 6500 residents of Arkhangelsk Oblast indicated their ethnicity as Pomors.