Location:
Northern Asia (that part west of the Urals
is sometimes included with Europe),
bordering the Arctic Ocean,
between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean
Area:
total area:
17,075,200 sq km
land area:
16,995,800 sq km
comparative area:
slightly more than 1.8 times the size of the US
Land boundaries:
total 20,139 km ;
Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus 959 km,
China ( southeast ) 3,605 km, China ( south ) 40 km,
Estonia 290 km, Finland 1,313 km, Georgia 723 km,
Kazakhstan 6,846 km, North Korea 19 km, Latvia 217 km,
Lithuania ( Kaliningrad Oblast ) 227 km, Mongolia 3,441 km,
Norway 167 km, Poland ( KaliningradOblast ) 432 km,
Ukraine 1,576 km
Coastline: 37,653 km
Population: 149,909,089 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
22% (female 16,208,640; male 16,784,017)
15-64 years:
66% (female 50,711,209; male 48,247,101)
65 years and over:
12% (female 12,557,447; male 5,400,675)
Population growth rate: 0.2% (1995 est.)
Birth rate: 12.64 births/1,000 population
Death rate: 11.36 deaths/1,000 population
Net migration rate: 0.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate: 26.4 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
69.1 years
male:
64.1 years
female:
74.35 years
Total fertility rate: 1.82 children born/woman
Ethnic divisions:
Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%,
Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%,
Byelorussian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1%
Religions: Russian Orthodox, Muslim, other
Languages: Russian, other
Literacy:
age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population:
98%
male:
100%
female:
97%
Names:
conventional long form:
Russian Federation
conventional short form:
Russia
Type: federation
Capital: Moscow
Independence: 24 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)
Constitution: adopted 12 December 1993
National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $721.2 billion
National product real growth rate: -15%
National product per capita: $4,820
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10%
Unemployment rate: 7.1%
Electricity:
capacity:
213,100,000 KW
production:
876 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
5,800 kWh
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