Soviet Census (1989)

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The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

[edit] Findings

The census officially recorded the population of the USSR at 286,717,000, making it the third most populous country in the world. Of the whole population, about 51% lived in the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, making it the most populous of the Soviet Rupublics. The only other republic to house a large percent of the Soviet population was the Ukrainian SSR, while the rest of the republics had less than 10% of the Soviet population occupying them. About 66% of the population was urban, a sharp increase from the 1970s.

[edit] References

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. 2005.