President: Mr. Vladimir Putin
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Area: total: 17,098,242 sq km
land: 16,377,742 sq km
water: 720,500 sq km
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Land Boundaries: 1. total: 22,408 km
border countries
(14): Azerbaijan 338 km, Belarus 1,312
km, China (southeast) 4,133
km, China (south) 46 km, Estonia 324 km, Finland 1,309
km, Georgia 894 km, Kazakhstan 7,644 km, North Korea 18 km, Latvia 332 km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad
Oblast) 261 km, Mongolia 3,452
km, Norway 191 km, Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) 210 km, Ukraine 1,944 km
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Natural Resources: Wide natural resource base including major deposits of
oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, reserves of rare earth
elements, timber
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Population & its structure: Population: 142,355,415 (July 2016 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 16.94% (male 12,385,281/female 11,726,473) 15-24 years: 9.71% (male 7,071,489/female 6,754,928) 25-54 years: 45.16% (male 31,528,258/female 32,753,350) 55-64 years: 14.27% (male 8,727,233/female 11,591,221) 65 years and over: 13.92% (male 6,152,252/female 13,664,930) (2016 est.)
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Median age: total: 39.3 years male: 36.4 years female: 42.3 years (2016 est.)
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Birth rate: 1.
11.3 births/1,000 population (2016
est.)
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Death rate: 1.
13.6 deaths/1,000 population (2016
est.)
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Net migration rate: 1.
1.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016
est.)
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