At the end of 2021, the population of Russia fell from 146.2 million to 145.5 million.

APA reports quoting Rosstat that as of January 1, 2022, the population of the Russian Federation was 145,478,097.

As of January 1, 2021, 146,171,015 people lived in the Federation.

The natural population decline was 1.04 million: 1.4 million children were born and 2.44 million died during the year.

In 2021, 923.6 thousand marriages were registered and 644.2 thousand divorces were registered.

One of the reasons for the increase in deaths in the federation is Covid-19 disease.