Demographics
Population: 1,010,073 (2010 Census); 1,005,276 (2002 Census); 998,114 (1989 Census).
- Ethnic groups
According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition was:
- Russian 67.6%
- Kazakh 16.3%
- Tatar 6.6%
- Ukrainian 0.9%
- Nogay 0.8%
- Chechen 0.8%
- Azeri 0.9%
- Kalmyk 0.7%
- Armenian 0.6%
- Roma 0.6%
- Avar 0.5%
- Lezgin 0.5%
- Dargin 0.5%
- Belarusians 0.3%
- Others 2.4%
- 95,217 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 (2008): 14,200 (14.2 per 1000)
- Deaths (2008): 13,660 (13.6 per 1000)
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