Leningrad Oblast - Demographics

Demographics

Population: 1,716,868 (2010 Census); 1,669,205 (2002 Census); 1,661,173 (1989 Census).

For the first half of 2007, the birth rate was 8.1 per 1000

Ethnic groups: according to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition was:

• Russian 92.7%
• Ukrainian 2%
• Belarusians 1.1%
• Tatar 0.5%
• Armenian 0.4%
• Uzbek 0.4%
• Azeri 0.3%
• Finnish 0.3%
• Roma 0.2%
• Tajik 0.2%
• Moldovan 0.2%
• Veps 0.1%
• others 1.6%
• 114,747 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.