Ulyanovsk Oblast - Demographics

Demographics

• Tatars

• Chuvash

• Erzya

Population: 1,292,799 (2010 Census); 1,382,811 (2002 Census); 1,400,806 (1989 Census).

55% of residents of Ulyanovsk Oblast live in two cities with population above 25,000—Ulyanovsk and Dimitrovgrad.

The ethnic composition is as follows:

• 73.6% Russian
• 12.2% Tatar
• 7.7% Chuvash
• 3.2% Mordva
• 3.3% others
• 67,890 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.

For the first half of 2007, the birth rate was 9.0 per 1000 The area population is reduced and for 20 years since 1991 has decreased on 200 thousand persons.