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The 2010 census is underway in Russia,<\/a> and experts expect that the results will show the population is smaller than it was during the last count, in 2002. That census counted 145 million people; estimates for the current total are about 140 million to 142 million. The decline has been attributed to a combination of diminished migration, ill health and low birth rates (although government statistics indicate recent upticks in fertility). The census nearly was canceled<\/a> because of cost considerations.<\/p>\n\n

One challenge for the census is to have a correct count of the estimated 20% of the population who are ethnic minorities. The federal statistics service offers 1,840 possible categories for residents to choose from.<\/a> To persuade Russians to cooperate with census-takers, the country’s top leaders posed for photographs with enumerators<\/a>, and President Dmitry Medvedev recounted his own experiences as a census-taker.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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