Russia is the largest country in the world by far, with a total area of just over 17 million square kilometers. After Antarctica, the next three countries are Canada, the U.S., and China; all between 9.5 and 10 million square kilometers. The figures given include internal water surface area (such as lakes or rivers) - if the figures were for land surface only then China would be the second largest country in the world, the U.S. third, and Canada (the country with more lakes than the rest of the world combined) fourth. Russia Russia has a population of around 145 million people, putting it in the top ten most populous countries in the world, and making it the most populous in Europe. However, it's vast size gives it a very low population density, ranked among the bottom 20 countries. Most of Russia's population is concentrated in the west, with around 75 percent of the population living in the European part, while around 75 percent of Russia's territory is in Asia; the Ural Mountains are considered the continental border. Elsewhere in the world Beyond Russia, the world's largest countries all have distinctive topographies and climates setting them apart. The United States, for example, has climates ranging from tundra in Alaska to tropical forests in Florida, with various mountain ranges, deserts, plains, and forests in between. Populations in these countries are often concentrated in urban areas, and are not evenly distributed across the country. For example, around 85 percent of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border; around 95 percent of China lives east of the Heihe–Tengchong Line that splits the country; and the majority of populations in large countries such as Australia or Brazil live near the coast.

Russia is the largest country in Europe, and also the largest in the world, its total size amounting to 17 million square kilometers (km2). It should be noted, however, that over three quarters of Russia is located in Asia, and the Ural mountains are often viewed as the meeting point of the two continents in Russia; nonetheless, European Russia is still significantly larger than any other European country. Ukraine, the second largest country on the continent, is only 603,000 km2, making it about 28 times smaller than its eastern neighbor, or seven times smaller than the European part of Russia. France is the third largest country in Europe, but the largest in the European Union. The Vatican City, often referred to as the Holy Sea, is both the smallest country in Europe and in the world, at just one km2. Population Russia is also the most populous country in Europe. It has around 144 million inhabitants across the country; in this case, around three quarters of the population live in the European part, which still gives it the largest population in Europe. Despite having the largest population, Russia is a very sparsely populated country due to its size and the harsh winters. Germany is the second most populous country in Europe, with 83 million inhabitants, while the Vatican has the smallest population. Worldwide, India and China are the most populous countries, with approximately 1.4 billion inhabitants each. Cities Moscow in Russia is ranked as the most populous city in Europe with around 13 million inhabitants, although figures vary, due to differences in the methodologies used by countries and sources. Some statistics include Istanbul in Turkey* as the largest city in Europe with its 15 million inhabitants, bit it has been excluded here as most of the country and parts of the city is located in Asia. Worldwide, Tokyo is the most populous city, with Jakarta the second largest and Delhi the third.

Russia was the largest country in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region, with a total area of over 17 million square kilometers in 2025. Furthermore, Russia was the largest country in the world, followed by Canada, the United States, and China. Ranking second among the CIS countries was Kazakhstan, whose land area comprised about 2.7 million square kilometers.

The average for 2021 based on 196 countries was 656013 sq. km. The highest value was in Russia: 16376870 sq. km and the lowest value was in Monaco: 2 sq. km. The indicator is available from 1961 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Russia is a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,191 square kilometres (6,612,073 sq mi), and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones, and has the most borders of any country in the world, with sixteen sovereign nations. It has a population of 146.2 million; and is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world. Moscow, the capital, is the largest city in Europe; while Saint Petersburg is the second-largest city and cultural centre. Russians are the largest Slavic and European nation; they speak Russian, the most spoken Slavic language, and the most spoken native language in Europe.

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Russia had the largest forest area in the world in 2021, amounting to around 815 million hectares, more than twice that of Canada, whose forest area amounted to 347 million hectares. The forestry industry in Canada With the third largest forest area in the world, Canada’s forestry industry is a significant contributor to the country’s gross domestic product. In 2021, the nominal GDP of Canada’s forest industry reached more than 34 billion Canadian dollars, with the wood product manufacturing sector alone contributing around 19.8 billion Canadian dollars in nominal GDP. A comparison of Canadian provinces shows that British Colombia has the largest forestry and logging industry in the country, followed by Quebec and Ontario. The Amazon rainforest in Brazil Brazil has the second largest forest area in the world after Russia, with total forest areas in the South American country amounting to approximately 494 million hectares in 2022. This is largely because around 62 percent of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil. The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest rainforest, what some call “the lungs of the planet”. However, in recent years, deforestation has been a salient issue in the Amazon, with illegal logging and wildfires raging across the rainforest have contributed to very high deforestation rates. Indeed, around 8,000 square kilometers were destroyed in the Brazilian Amazon in 2023. Deforestation and its impact on climate change has spurred opposition to the logging industry, which was the sector responsible for the most killings of environmental activists in 2021.

Russia's total Imports in 2021 were valued at US$293.50 Billion, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Russia's main import partners were: China, Germany and the United States. The top three import commodities were: Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers; Electrical, electronic equipment and Vehicles other than railway, tramway. Total Exports were valued at US$492.31 Billion. In 2021, Russia had a trade surplus of US$198.82 Billion.

In 2025, India overtook China as the world's most populous country and now has almost 1.46 billion people. China now has the second-largest population in the world, still with just over 1.4 billion inhabitants, however, its population went into decline in 2023. Global population As of 2025, the world's population stands at almost 8.2 billion people and is expected to reach around 10.3 billion people in the 2080s, when it will then go into decline. Due to improved healthcare, sanitation, and general living conditions, the global population continues to increase; mortality rates (particularly among infants and children) are decreasing and the median age of the world population has steadily increased for decades. As for the average life expectancy in industrial and developing countries, the gap has narrowed significantly since the mid-20th century. Asia is the most populous continent on Earth; 11 of the 20 largest countries are located there. It leads the ranking of the global population by continent by far, reporting four times as many inhabitants as Africa. The Demographic Transition The population explosion over the past two centuries is part of a phenomenon known as the demographic transition. Simply put, this transition results from a drastic reduction in mortality, which then leads to a reduction in fertility, and increase in life expectancy; this interim period where death rates are low and birth rates are high is where this population explosion occurs, and population growth can remain high as the population ages. In today's most-developed countries, the transition generally began with industrialization in the 1800s, and growth has now stabilized as birth and mortality rates have re-balanced. Across less-developed countries, the stage of this transition varies; for example, China is at a later stage than India, which accounts for the change in which country is more populous - understanding the demographic transition can help understand the reason why China's population is now going into decline. The least-developed region is Sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility rates remain close to pre-industrial levels in some countries. As these countries transition, they will undergo significant rates of population growth.

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Abstract

The World Values Survey (www.worldvaluessurvey.org) is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars, with the WVS association and secretariat headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The survey, which started in 1981, seeks to use the most rigorous, high-quality research designs in each country. The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, using a common questionnaire. The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents. Moreover the WVS is the only academic study covering the full range of global variations, from very poor to very rich countries, in all of the world’s major cultural zones. The WVS seeks to help scientists and policy makers understand changes in the beliefs, values and motivations of people throughout the world. Thousands of political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists and economists have used these data to analyze such topics as economic development, democratization, religion, gender equality, social capital, and subjective well-being. These data have also been widely used by government officials, journalists and students, and groups at the World Bank have analyzed the linkages between cultural factors and economic development.

Geographic coverage

This survey covers the Russian Federation.

Analysis unit

• Household
• Individual

Universe

The WVS for the Russian Federation covers national population, aged 18 years and over, for both sexes.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The sample was designed to be representative of the entire adult population, i.e. 18 years and older, of your country. The lower age cut-off for the sample was 18 and there was not an upper age cut-off for the sample. Population: Total non-institutionalized population of the Russian Federation, 18 years and older, without citizens living in the Far North and in inaccessible regions of Siberia.

Five-stage area probability sample: (1) The country is divided into 4 strata. For each stratum the desired number of respondents is defined proportional to population size. (2) Within each stratum 50 primary sampling units (administrative districts) are selected at random proportional to size. (3) Within each primary sampling unit secondary sampling units (towns and rural Soviets as administrative subdistricts) are selected randomly (4) Within each secondary sampling unit third sampling units (voting districts in the towns, villages belonging to a rural Soviet in the rural areas) are randomly selected. The total number of third sampling units was 186. (5) Within each third sampling unit households were selected at random from a household register (fourth sampling unit). (6) Within each household the respondent is randomly selected using the "Kish-selection-grid": all adult family members are listed in a certain order, first males from the oldest to the youngest, than females from the oldest to the youngest; the respondent is selected by a selection key which is randomly composed for each possible type of household composition (fifth sampling unit). Selection is done: 41% Male and 59% Female. 75% Urban and 25% Rural. The sample size is N=2040.

Universe: The universe includes the adult population of Russia residing in 89 regios and republics. The Far North and inaccessible regions of Siberia, military bases and prisons are not included. Primary sampling units: Administrative rayons in regions, krays and republics are used as the primary sampling units (PSUs). Each rayon is a geographically localized territory which in general contains both urban and rural settlements. Either a town or a rural settlement may be a center of rayon. Usually, but not always, it is the largest settlement in a rayon. If a rural settlement is the center of a rayon itself generally consists only of rural settlements and is referred to the category of rural rayhons. Separate towns which are considered by official statistical institutions as rayons are also included in the set of primary sampling units. These towns are not part of rayons though they are situated in the rayon's territory. Sometimes they may also include some suburbs. So separate towns and rural rayons may be considered as two poles of a scale which contains all various rayhons of Russia (primary sampling units, PSUs). On the continuum between these poles there are rayons of mixed type containing urban and rural sttlements of different sizes. Population size of different rayons may vary from 4-5 thousand to several hundred thousand or even several million of people in cities considered as separate rayons. If population size is less than 10.000 the rayon is linked to an adjacent one in a stratum. All PSUs are presented in the form of data base of more than 2.000 records with each record corresponding to one rayon or separate town (later referred to as rayons). The record for each rayon (PSU) contains the following data: - unique identification number and rayon title, - code and title of a region, - central town population size, - rayon population size All data are based on annual statistical reports (Chislennost RSFSR na 1 janvarya 1990) and 1989 census information. Primary sampling units stratification: PSUs stratification is based on two variables: geographical placement and status of the rayon center. All primary sampling units are grouped in strata consisting of homogeneous rayons. Strata are formed so that each stratum has approximately the same population size. They may consist of from one to several dozen PSUs depending on PSUs population size. In this sample the stratum population size is equal approximately 3.000 thousand (tab.1). Two cities in Russia Moscow and St. Petersburg have population size exceeding stratum population size. They form so called self-representing strata. The geographic placement of a rayon is defined by corresponding economic and geographic zone. According to statistical institutions Russia is divided into 11 economic and geopraphic regions. But for sample construction this division seems to be too fractional and can prevent forming strata of equal size in each zone. The main goal for using the geographic factor as a stratification variable is the uniform spreading of PSUs through Russia territory. For these reasons economic and geographic regions in Russia wre grouped in four zones:

• Zone 1 - North and Center of European part of Russia (unites Northern, North Western + Kaliningrad obl., Central and Volgo-´Vjatsky regions of Russia).

• Zone 2 - South of Wuropean part of Russia (unites Tsentralno-Chernozjemny, Povolzhsky and North- Caucasian regions of Russia).

• Zone 3 - Ural and West Siberia (two economic regions)

• Zone 4 - East Siberia and Far East (two economic regions). For economic and geographic division in Russia seven factors are used: nature and resources, population, industry, power engineering, area industry distribution, agriculture, transport and communicftions ( Economicheskaya geographiya SSSR. Moskva, Vishaya shkola, 1983). 11 regions were aggregated in four zones on the basis of two first factors: nature and resources and population. The second variable of PSUs stratification is the status of the rayon center. It is formed on officially accepted statistical classification by type and population size:

• rural settlement,

• urban settlement with populatiton size:

  • below 20.000
  • between 20.000 and 50.000
  • between 50.000 and 200.000
  • between 500.000 and 1000.000
  • more than 1000.000

Remarks about sampling: - Final numbers of clusters or sampling points: 186 - Sample unit from office sampling: Household

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The WVS questionnaire was in Russian. Some special variable labels have been included, such as: V56 Neighbours: Jews and V149 Institution: The European Union. Special categories labels are: V203/ V204: Geographical affinity, 1. Locality or town where you live, 2. Region of country where you live, 3. Own country as a whole, 4. Europe, 5. The world as whole. Country Specific variables included are: V208: Ethnic identification, 2. Ukranian, 3. Tatarian 4. Komi 5 Mordovia, 6 Karbardian 7 Balkarian; V209: Language at home: 2. Ukranian, 3. Tatarian 4. Komi 5 Mordovia, 6 Karbardian 7 Balkarian; The variables political parties V210 a V212; Region: V 234 and V206 Born in this country are also included as country specific variables. The ethnic group of the respondent was not asked in the interview. In the cases of Eastern Europe Countries where the ethnic group is missing the language chosen for interview is the only indicator available to control the ethnic composition of the samples. Nevertheless, native language indicated in the cesus of 1989 and language chosen for interview are not exactly the same, since the first is rather differentiated whereas for the last the alternatives to choose between where only the national language or Russian.

Response rate

The response rate for the Russian Federation is 74.9% and is calculated as follows: (2040/2723) x 100=74.9%

Sampling error estimates

+/- 2,2%

As of January 1, 2025, more than 146 million people were estimated to be residing on the Russian territory, down approximately 30,000 from the previous year. From the second half of the 20th century, the population steadily grew until 1995. Furthermore, the population size saw an increase from 2009, getting closer to the 1995 figures. In which regions do most Russians live? With some parts of Russia known for their harsh climate, most people choose regions which offer more comfortable conditions. The largest share of the Russian population, or 40 million, reside in the Central Federal District. Moscow, the capital, is particularly populated, counting nearly 13 million residents. Russia’s population projections Despite having the largest country area worldwide, Russia’s population was predicted to follow a negative trend under both low and medium expectation forecasts. Under the low expectation forecast, the country’s population was expected to drop from 146 million in 2022 to 134 million in 2036. The medium expectation scenario projected a milder drop to 143 million in 2036. The issues of low birth rates and high death rates in Russia are aggravated by the increasing desire to emigrate among young people. In 2023, more than 20 percent of the residents aged 18 to 24 years expressed their willingness to leave Russia.

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