Country Sheet : Russia

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Last Update on 8th July 2024

RUSSIA

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Geography

Area : 17,098,242 km²

Borders : 22,408 km (Kazakhstan 7,644 km, China 4,133 km, Mongolia 3,452 km, Ukraine 1,944 km, Belarus 1,312 km, Finland 1,309 km, Georgia 894 km, Azerbaijan 338 km, Latvia 332 km, Estonia 324 km, Norway 191 km, North Korea 18 km; Borders with Oblast Kaliningrad: Lithuania 261 km, Poland 210 km)

Coastline : 37,653 Km (Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Caspian Sea, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Sea of Japan, Black Sea, Baltic Sea)

Capital : Moscow

Official language : Russian

Source : The CIA World Factbook

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Population

Population : 141,698,923 (2023 est.)

Crude natural change rate : -0.2‰ (2023 est.)

Population repartition: 15 years old: 16.9% , 65 years old: 17.2% (2023)

Crude net migration rate: 0.8‰ (2023 est.)

Life expectancy: men 67.2 years, women 78.5 years (2023 est.)

Religions: Orthodox 41%, theists without any particular religion 25%, atheists 13%, Muslims 6.5%, other Christians 7.6%, Buddhists 0.5%, Other 1.5% (Sreda Arena Atlas 2012 on the 2010 census)

Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% (2010 est.)

Source : The CIA World Factbook

Economy

Currency: Russian ruble (RUB) (exchange rate in December 2023: €1 = 99.69 RUB)

GDP: $ 2,060 billion (2024)

GDP per capita (PPS): $ 14,390 (2024)

GDP growth : 3.2% (2024)

Inflation: 6.9% (2024)

Public debt: 16.1% of GDP (June 2023)

Unemployment: 3.1% (2024)

Stock of foreign direct investment from the entire world: $ 521 876 millions (2021)

Performance sectors: mining and extraction industries (coal, oil, gas, chemical products, metals), construction of machine tools, of ships, of agricultural machines, military and industrial complex, textile, agribusiness, craft industry

Budget balance: -2.3% of GDP (December 2022)

Source : World Bank, OCDE, Trading Economics, CEIC, Statista

Political system

Federal Presidential Republic (the Russian Federation, Constitution adopted on December 12th 1993) Head of State Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin between 1999 and 2008 and again since May 7th, 2012. He was re elected on 7th May 2018 and 17th March 2024.

Head of government Mikhail Mishustin was appointed Prime Minister on January 16th 2020 after the resigantion of Dmitri Medvedev's government.

The Federation Council (Sovet Federatsii) is the upper house of the Federal Assembly. It comprises 170 members appointed by the top executive and legislative officials in each of the 89 federal administrative units;

The State Duma a (Gosudarstvennaya Duma, is composed of 450 deputies directly elected for a 5 years-term with a proportional representation.