The population of Khakassia

The population of Khakassia according to Rosstat is 537 668 people (2017).

Population of Khakassia (wikipedia.org)

National composition

In total, in the Republic of Khakassia, according to the 2002 census, representatives of more than 100 nationalities lived. For comparison: according to the results of the First All-Union Population Census of 1926, Khakassians (50.0%) and Russians lived mainly in the Khakass District.

Although the number of Khakas in the republic has increased, as the 2002 census showed, the country's scale has decreased: in 1989, there were 79,000 Khakas in Russia, and in 2002 - 76,000. Reasons for the decline in numbers are a decrease in the birth rate and an increase in the mortality rate, and migration. In 2002, out of the total number of Khakassians, 25.1 thousand people. (38.3%) lived in urban settlements, 40.3 thousand people (61.7%) lived in rural areas. The majority of the indigenous population live in the Askiz region (31.6%), Abakan (28.2%), Tashtypsky district (11.9%), a smaller proportion of the Khakas live in the Bograd region (0.9%) (this is predominantly inhabited by Russians District), Sayanogorsk (1%), Chernogorsk (2%). According to the 2002 census, out of the total number of Russians, 333.2 thousand people live in urban settlements (76.0%), 105.2 thousand people live in rural areas.

National composition of Khakassia