Population of Moscow

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• Population of Russia
• Moscow

Fertility and mortality in Moscow

Main article: Fertility and mortality in Moscow

Marriages and divorces

Main article: Marriages and divorces in Moscow

Migrants

Main article: Migrants in Moscow

2025: Most Muscovites begin to live separately from their parents at the age of 26

On average, Muscovites begin to live separately from their parents at the age of 26. The majority, 41% of them, move into a rented apartment, shared in March 2025 in SberStrakhovanie according to a survey conducted in 37 Russian cities with a population of over 500 thousand people.

At the same time, a quarter of respondents are sure that it is necessary to start living separately only when their own real estate appears. Another 15% are inclined to move out of their parents immediately after receiving higher education, and 4% immediately after adulthood. The same number, 4% of survey participants, see the point in leaving for their own or rented housing after the wedding, another 3% stressed that with this you can wait until your children appear in the family. Interestingly, 12% of Russians agreed that the move is not needed and it is worth living together. Also, 22% of respondents believe that each situation is individual.

41% of respondents who decided to live independently moved to rented housing. In their own real estate or given to them by parents - 36% of the survey participants, another 7% noted that they went to their apartment bought on a mortgage. Previously, young people from Tomsk, Irkutsk and Omsk begin to live separately from their parents - at the age of 24. Later than the rest - Penza, Orenburg and Naberezhnye Chelny - at the age of 28.

Parental support continues to play an important role in property acquisition. Thus, 76% of respondents consider a mortgage the most affordable option to acquire their own housing for a young family, while 53% of them emphasize the value of financial assistance from parents. 6% of respondents are inclined to save up for the purchase of their own housing without loans, and 5% to receive it from the state. The fact that it is not necessary to acquire your own real estate and you can always live in a rented apartment or house, said 3% of Russians.

According to Domklik, on average, Russians take the first mortgage at 37 years old. From the beginning of 2024 to the present, age cohorts of 31-35 years and 36-40 years account for about 45% of all mortgage applications in Russia. Borrowers aged 18 to 25 on average in the country make up less than a tenth (8.9%) of those who took out a mortgage, and at the age of 26-30 this figure increases to 15.3%.

If we consider the share of borrowers no older than 30 years by region, then the largest share of borrowers aged 18 to 25 years was noted in the Altai Territory, Orenburg, Kemerovo and Kurgan regions - 15%. About 14% of borrowers of this age are also in the Vladimir and Tambov regions, as well as the Komi Republic.

The region with the highest share of borrowers aged 26 to 30 years is the Tambov region (19%). A relatively high share is observed in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Republic of Mordovia (17% each), as well as the Volgograd Region and the Komi Republic (16% each).

Among those who are considering the possibility of registering a mortgage to buy the first home, 89% are guided by preferential mortgage programs, 11% are ready for a loan on general terms. On average, a comfortable mortgage payment for Russians is 38 thousand rubles. Residents of Yekaterinburg (57 thousand rubles), Perm (48 thousand) and Moscow (46 thousand) are ready for the largest monthly contributions.

2024

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced an increase in the life expectancy of Muscovites from 74 to 79 years

By the end of 2024, the average life expectancy of Muscovites increased to 79 years. For comparison: in 2010, the indicator was measured for 74 years. This was announced on December 25, 2024 by the mayor of the Russian capital Sergei Sobyanin.

According to him, as a result of large-scale systemic work, it was possible to reduce the mortality rate of Muscovites from the most common oncological, cardiovascular and other socially significant diseases. It is noted that large-scale projects are being implemented in Moscow to create a new framework for medical care. We are talking, in particular, about a comprehensive program for the modernization of clinics, which covers 340 facilities. By 2028, almost 50 new polyclinic buildings will be built.

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Earlier, the deputy mayor Moscow for social development Anastasia Rakova said that the Russian capital seeks to enter the club of world leaders, where "life expectancy is far over 80 years."

We are leading in the country and, along with such regions unlike us, regions of the south, such as Ingushetia and Dagestan, in general, we head the rating of leaders, the average life expectancy in Moscow is 79 years. And we will definitely step over the 80 bar in the near future, "Rakova emphasized.

According to Rosstat estimates, life expectancy at birth in Russia as a whole (excluding new regions) as of 2024 is 73.48 years with an average forecast. For men, this figure is 68.45 years, for women - 10 years more, 78.39 years.^[1]

The population of Moscow has grown to 13.15 million people. Breakdown by district

As of January 1, 2024, the population Moscow reached 13.15 million people. For comparison, a year earlier this figure was 13.1 million. Thus, an increase of 0.4% was recorded. Such data are given in the materials of the Office of the Federal Statistics Service state for the city and, To Moscow Moscow region with which TAdviser I got acquainted in mid-December 2024.

It is noted that the average annual population of the Russian capital in 2023 was recorded at 13,126,990 people. The number of residents in Moscow continues to grow, and by 2030 it can reach 14 million. The mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, notes that population growth is a necessary condition for development. However, at the same time, the load on various city services increases, including the transport system

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Today we are 13 million people, by 2030, according to forecasts, there will be approximately 14 million. Add to this 9 million residents of the Moscow region. In total, in just six to seven years, about 23 million people will live in the Moscow agglomeration, says Sobyanin.

Most people are concentrated in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow. In general, the breakdown by district is as follows (as of January 1, 2024):

• Eastern administrative district - 1,508,678 people;
• Western administrative district - 1,425,114;
• Zelenograd administrative district - 270 527;
• Northern administrative district - 1,217,909;
• Northeast administrative district - 1,455,811;
• Northwestern administrative district - 1,039,596;
• Central administrative district - 774,430;
• Southeast administrative district - 1,515,787;
• Southwestern administrative district - 1,435,550;
• Southern administrative district - 1,768,752;
• Novomoskovsky administrative district - 541 242;
• Troitsky administrative district - 196,407.^[2]

2022:750 people over the age of 100 live in Moscow

By the end of 2022, more than 750 people who are 100 years old live in Moscow. The oldest among them is 107 years old, said Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development. According to her, there are also about 3 million pensioners in the capital. Read more here.

2021: In Moscow - 40 thousand homeless people

As of 2021

2018:12% of Russia's population lives in Moscow

The share of the country's population living in the capital. Data at the end of 2018

1871:354 thousand men and only 248 thousand women live in Moscow

On December 12, 1871, the first one-day census was conducted. Initially, the city authorities allocated 6 thousand rubles for this event, but in the end they had to issue the same amount. To implement the plan, Moscow was divided into 10 sections. Homeowners were given a census form where they indicated everyone living in the house. Those involved in the census were called counters. According to the census, it turned out that much more men lived in Moscow than women (354 thousand against 248).

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