Demographics
The Brest Voblast has a population of 1,462,900 (2004 estimate), about 14,7% of the national total. About 47.2% of the voblast's population are men, and the remaining 52.8% are women.
Of the major nationalities living in the Brest Voblast, 1,262,600 are Belarusians (85%), 128,700 (8.6%) are Russians, 57,100 (3.8%) are Ukrainians, and 27,100 (1.8%) are Poles.
Brest is the province with the highest birth rate in all of Belarus. As of 2008, the birth rate was 12.0 per 1000 and death rate was 13.4 per 1000.
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