Saratov Oblast - Demographics

Demographics

Population: 2,521,892 (2010 Census); 2,668,310 (2002 Census); 2,686,483 (1989 Census).

Ethnic groups: most of the ethnic Germans who used to live in the area have been repatriated. The German Consulate in Saratov closed in June 2004, stating that there were only 18,000 ethnic Germans left in the oblast (including 2,000 in the city of Saratov)

There were twenty recognized ethnic groups of more than two thousand persons each in Saratov Oblast at the time of the 2010 Census. The ethnic composition was reported to be:

• Russians:(87.6%);
• Kazakhs:(3.1%);
• Tatars:(2.2%);
• Ukrainians:(1.7%);
• Armenians:(1%);
• Azerbaijani:(0.6%);
• Chuvash:(0.5%);
• Mordovians:(0.4%);
• Germans:(0.3%);
• Belarusians:(0.3%);
• Chechens:(0.2%);
• 2.1% others.
• 64,878 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): 27,492 (10.7 per 1000)
• Deaths (2008): 39,291 (15.2 per 1000)