33 Countries of Origin’ Profiles

4 Population World Population Review The population of Russia represents 2.06 percent of the world´s total population which arguably means that one person in every 49 people on the planet is a resident of Russia. Also Russia is one of the few countries with a negative growth rate, and its 2016 population is estimated at 143.4 million, a decline from an estimated population of 146.3 million in 2015. It's currently the 9th most populous country on earth, d espite being the largest by area. Language Justin Dodge The official language of Russia i s Russian, which is a member of the eastern Slavic linguistic group. Russian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet and is most similar to Belarusian a nd Ukrainian. Like the various ethnic groups in Russia, many of them also have a unique language, many of which are either a Turkic language (related to many languages in Central Asia and in Turkey o r a Uralic language (related t o Hungarian, F innish, a nd other minor