Demographics of Belarus
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[edit] Demographic data from the CIA World Factbook
[edit] Population
- 10,293,011 (July 2006 est.) (NB the Belarus National Statistics Office estimate is considerably lower at 9,750,500 (end 2005) [1]).
[edit] Age structure
- 0-14 years: 15.7% (male 825,823/female 791,741)
- 15-64 years: 69.7% (male 3,490,442/female 3,682,950)
- 65 years and over: 14.6% (male 498,976/female 1,003,079) (2006 est.)
[edit] Median age
- Total: 37.2 years
- Male: 34.5 years
- Female: 39.9 years (2006 est.)
[edit] Population growth rate
- -0.06% (2006 est.)
[edit] Birth rate
- 11.16 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
- In 2007 103,425 children were born. [1]
[edit] Death rate
- 14.02 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
- In 2007 there were 132,855 deaths. [2]
[edit] Net migration rate
- 2.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)
[edit] Sex ratio
- At birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
- Under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
- 15-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female
- 65 years and over: 0.5 male(s)/female
- Total population: 0.88 male(s)/female (2006 est.)
[edit] Infant mortality rate
- Total: 13 deaths/1,000 live births
- Male: 13.92 deaths/1,000 live births
- Female: 12.03 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)
[edit] Life expectancy at birth
- Total population: 69.08 years
- Male: 63.47 years
- Female: 74.98 years (2006 est.)
[edit] Total fertility rate
- 1.22 children born/woman (2007 est.)
[edit] HIV/AIDS
- Adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2001 est.)
- People living with HIV/AIDS: 15,000 (2001 est.)
- Deaths: 1,000 (2001 est.)
[edit] Nationality
- Noun: Belarusian(s)
- Adjective: Belarusian
[edit] Ethnic groups
- Belarusians 81.2%, Russians 11.4%, Poles 3.9%, Ukrainians 2.4%, Jews 0.3%, Others (Lithuanians, Lipka Tatars) 0.8%
Prior to World War II, Jews were the third largest ethnic group in Belarus, and comprised more than 40 percent of the population in cities and towns, where Jews and Poles were the majority, while Belarusians mostly lived in rural areas. By 1989, Jews accounted for only 1.1% of the population. The decrease is mainly due to the Holocaust and emigration from the Soviet Union to the United States and Israel.[citation needed]
The Poles were the second largest ethnic group. After WW2 over 1 million Poles were forced to move to Poland. In exchange, the same number of Belarusians from the former Belastok Voblast, that remained Polish, were forced out to Belarus. Also many were killed or forced to Siberia and Kazakstan during the Stalin era; see Population transfer in the Soviet Union. Today there are about 500 thousands Poles in Belarus. Lipka Tatars count for about 5-10,000. Poles, Lipka Tatars and Lithuanians mostly reside in western Belarus.
[edit] Religions
In 1997, 80% of the religious population belong to the Russian Orthodox Church, other two main religions are Catholicism (which is most of the rest) and a small number adhering to Protestant Christianity. Besides that, there is a number of adherents of Islam and Judaism. During the times of the Soviet Union the majority of population was atheistic, and this situation did not change significantly with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, although the number of people declaring themselves religious grows. Catholics, Jews and Muslims mostly reside in western Belarus.
[edit] Languages
Official Belarusian and Russian others Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian
[edit] Literacy
- Definition: age 15 and over who can read and write
- Total population: 99.6%
- Male: 99.8%
- Female: 99.5% (2003 est.)
[edit] Cities
[edit] References
This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook (2006 edition) which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.
