Editing Irkutsk Oblast (section)

==Demographics==
[[File:Центр Плавания "Спартак" г. Иркутск (чаша бассейна).jpg|thumb|right|Swimming Center "Spartak" Irkutsk in [[Novolenino]]. Opened to visitors on 14 November 2014. There is a kayaking school in the swimming center.]]
The oblast is very thinly populated, with a population density of 3 people per square kilometer, compared to a national average of 8.4. [[Irkutsk]] is the administrative center and largest city, with 612,973 residents. Other large cities are [[Bratsk]] (238,825 people), [[Angarsk]] (229,592 people), [[Ust-Ilimsk]] (83,635 people), and [[Usolye-Sibirskoye]] (80,331 people).

Most of the population are [[Russians|ethnic Russians]]. A minority group, the [[Buryats]], have a special [[Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug]] inside the oblast. Russians and other Slavic/Germanic groups make up 92.9% of the population, according to the 2021 Census, while Buryats are 3.6%. [[Tofalars]] number 659, a decrease from 722 in 1989.<ref name=census2021>{{cite web|title=Национальный состав населения|url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx|publisher=[[Federal State Statistics Service (Russia)|Federal State Statistics Service]]|accessdate=30 December 2022}}</ref>
{|
| valign="top" |
{| class="standard"
|-
!Ethnic group
!Population
!Percentage
|-
|Russians
| align="right" |1,917,265
| align="right" |92.2%
|-
|[[Buryats]]
| align="right" |74,746
| align="right" |3.6%
|-
|[[Tatars]]
| align="right" |12,130
| align="right" |0.6%
|-
|[[Ukrainians]]
| align="right" |9,506
| align="right" |0.5%
|-
|Other
| align="right" |65,640
| align="right" |3.2%
|-
|}
|}

One small ethnic group, concentrated in three villages (Pikhtinsk, Sredne-Pikhtinsk, and Dagnik) in [[Zalarinsky District]] is the so-called "Bug Hollanders": descendants of Polish-speaking [[Lutheran]] farmers who had moved to Siberia from the then Russian [[Volhynia]] in 1911–1912 in search of affordable land.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}  Although they had long lost German (or Dutch) language of their ancestors (even in the early twentieth century they spoke Ukrainian and read Polish), they were still considered [[History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union|ethnic Germans]], and during [[World War II]] were usually drafted for work in labor camps, instead of front-line military service.<ref>Olga Solovyova (Ольга Соловьева) [http://www.strana-oz.ru/?numid=27&article=1189 "Bug 'Hollanders'" (БУЖСКИЕ ГОЛЕНДРЫ)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003527/http://www.strana-oz.ru/?numid=27&article=1189 |date=September 27, 2007 }} {{in lang|ru}}</ref>

===Religion===
{{Bar box
|title=Religion in Irkutsk Oblast as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)<ref name="2012ArenaAtlas">[http://sreda.org/en/arena "Arena: Atlas of Religions and Nationalities in Russia"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922230056/http://sreda.org/en/arena |date=September 22, 2015 }}. Sreda, 2012.</ref><ref name="2012Arena-religion-maps">[http://c2.kommersant.ru/ISSUES.PHOTO/OGONIOK/2012/034/ogcyhjk2.jpg 2012 Arena Atlas Religion Maps]. "Ogonek", № 34 (5243), 27/08/2012. Retrieved 21/04/2017. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170421154615/http://c2.kommersant.ru/ISSUES.PHOTO/OGONIOK/2012/034/ogcyhjk2.jpg Archived].</ref>
|float=right
|bars=
{{Bar percent|[[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodoxy]]|DarkOrchid|28.1}}
{{Bar percent|Other [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]]|MediumOrchid|5.7}}
{{Bar percent|Other [[Christianity in Russia|Christians]]|DeepSkyBlue|6.7}}
{{Bar percent|[[Islam in Russia|Islam]]|Green|1.2}}
{{Bar percent|[[Rodnovery]] and other native faiths|Red|2.2}}
{{Bar percent|[[Spiritual but not religious]]|DarkSlateGray|37.2}}
{{Bar percent|[[Atheism]] and [[irreligion]]|Black|17.5}}
{{Bar percent|Other and undeclared|Gray|1.4}}
}}

According to a 2012 survey<ref name="2012ArenaAtlas"/> 28.1% of the population of Irkutsk Oblast adheres to the [[Russian Orthodox Church]], 7% are [[nondenominational Christianity|unaffiliated]] generic [[Christians]], 6% are Orthodox Christian believers without belonging to any church or are members of other (non-Russian) [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox church]]es, 2% of the population adheres to the [[Slavic native faith]] (Rodnovery), and 1% to [[Islam]]. In addition, 37% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 17% is [[atheism|atheist]], and 1.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.<ref name="2012ArenaAtlas"/>

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===Population===
{{Historical populations
|type =
|footnote = Source: Census data, estimate<ref name=2025Estimate>{{cite web|title=Предварительная оценка численности постоянного населения  на 1 января 2025 года|url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/PrPopul2025_Site.xlsx|publisher=[[Federal State Statistics Service (Russia)|Federal State Statistics Service]]|accessdate=3 February 2025}}</ref>
|[[Russian_Empire_census|1897]] | 514267
|[[1959 Soviet census|1959]] | 1976453
|[[1970 Soviet census|1970]] | 2313410
|[[1979 Soviet census|1979]] | 2559522
|[[1989 Soviet census|1989]] | 2830641
|[[2002 Russian census|2002]] | 2581705
|[[2010 Russian census|2010]] | 2428750
|[[2021 Russian census|2021]] | 2370102
|2025 | 2316571
}}

Irkutsk Oblast registered natural population growth in 2008, the first time after 1993.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.irtel.ru/soc.php |title=Иркутскстат |access-date=2008-11-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303180717/http://www.stat.irtel.ru/soc.php |archive-date=March 3, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Still, the future prospects for population growth in Irkutsk seems bleak. In 2007, women in Irkutsk were having an average of 1.602 children each. Fertility rate was extremely low in urban areas, where women were having just 1.477 children each. In rural areas however, the fertility rate was slightly above replaceable levels. In rural areas of Irkutsk Oblast, women were having an average of 2.165 children each. (Figures are not available for 2008, although for Russia as a whole fertility rates for 2008 were approx. 6% higher than that in 2007, and for Irkutsk 9% higher).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gks.ru/doc_2008/family.zip |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-12-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723095742/http://www.gks.ru/doc_2008/family.zip |archive-date=July 23, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

'''Vital statistics for 2024:<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 February 2025 |title=Естественное движение населения в разрезе субъектов российской федерации за декабрь 2024 года |url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/EDN_12-2024.htm |url-status=live |access-date=25 February 2025 |website=Rosstat}}</ref>'''
*Births: 22,304 (9.6 per 1,000)
*Deaths: 32,158 (13.8 per 1,000)

'''Total fertility rate (2024):<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-25 |title=Рейтинг рождаемости в регионах: кто в лидерах, а кто в аутсайдерах {{!}} Москва |url=https://fedpress.ru/article/3365231 |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=ФедералПресс |language=ru-RU}}</ref>'''<br />
1.62 children per woman

'''Life expectancy (2021):'''<ref name="rosstat">{{cite web|url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/folder/210/document/13207 |title=Демографический ежегодник России |publisher=[[Federal State Statistics Service (Russia)|Federal State Statistics Service of Russia]] (Rosstat) |access-date=2022-06-01 |language=ru |trans-title=The Demographic Yearbook of Russia}}</ref>  <br />
Total — 66.80 years (male&nbsp;— 61.90, female&nbsp;— 71.69)

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
!'''District in 2007'''
!'''Type'''
!'''Birth Rate<ref>{{cite web |url=http://irkutskstat.gks.ru/digital/region1/default.aspx |title=Территориальный орган Федеральной службы государственной статистики по Иркутской области - Население |access-date=2009-05-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903040247/http://irkutskstat.gks.ru/digital/region1/default.aspx |archive-date=September 3, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>'''
!'''Death Rate'''
!'''NGR'''
|----
|'''Irkutsk Oblast'''
|'''Obl'''
|'''13.8'''
|'''14.0'''
|''' -0.02%'''
|----
|[[Bratsk]]
|Urb
|11.8
|13.0
| −0.12%
|----
|[[Zima (town)|Zima]]
|Urb
|17.4
|17.2
|0.02%
|----
|[[Irkutsk]]
|Urb
|13.5
|12.6
|0.09%
|----
|[[Sayansk]]
|Urb
|12.9
|11.8
|0.11%
|----
|[[Svirsk]]
|Urb
|14.3
|21.7
| −0.74%
|----
|[[Tulun]]
|Urb
|13.9
|15.3
| −0.14%
|----
|[[Usolye-Sibirskoye]]
|Urb
|13.1
|16.3
| −0.32%
|----
|[[Ust-Ilimsk]]
|Urb
|10.5
|9.4
|0.11%
|----
|[[Cheremkhovo]]
|Urb
|15.1
|20.6
| −0.55%
|----
|[[Angarsk|Angarsky]]
|Rur
|11.0
|13.5
| −0.25%
|----
|[[Balagansky]]
|Rur
|15.9
|14.1
|0.18%
|----
|[[Bodaybinsky District|Bodaybinsky]]
|Rur
|13.6
|13.9
| −0.03%
|----
|[[Bratsky District|Bratsky]]
|Rur
|13.5
|14.7
| −0.12%
|----
|[[Zhigalovsky]]
|Rur
|18.8
|16.7
|0.21%
|----
|[[Zalarinsky]]
|Rur
|16.0
|15.9
|0.01%
|----
|[[Ziminsky District|Ziminsky]]
|Rur
|14.7
|16.4
| −0.17%
|----
|[[Irkutsky District|Irkutsky]]
|Rur
|16.1
|13.1
|0.30%
|----
|[[Kazachinsko-Lensky]]
|Rur
|15.3
|11.8
|0.35%
|----
|[[Katangsky]]
|Rur
|12.8
|14.6
| −0.18%
|----
|[[Kachugsky]]
|Rur
|17.3
|15.4
|0.19%
|----
|[[Kirensky District|Kirensky]]
|Rur
|13.6
|14.7
| −0.11%
|----
|[[Kuytunsky]]
|Rur
|16.0
|17.0
| −0.10%
|----
|[[Mamsko-Chuysky]]
|Rur
|9.9
|19.3
| −0.94%
|----
|[[Nizhneilimsky]]
|Rur
|14.3
|15.0
| −0.07%
|----
|[[Nizhneudinsky District|Nizhneudinsky]]
|Rur
|14.2
|19.9
| −0.57%
|----
|[[Olkhonsky]]
|Rur
|18.6
|13.0
|0.56%
|----
|[[Slyudyansky District|Slyudyansky]]
|Rur
|16.4
|15.6
|0.08%
|----
|[[Tayshetsky District|Tayshetsky]]
|Rur
|13.6
|16.4
| −0.28%
|----
|[[Tulunsky]]
|Rur
|15.8
|15.9
| −0.01%
|----
|[[Usolsky]]
|Rur
|14.1
|14.0
|0.01%
|----
|[[Ust-Ilimsky]]
|Rur
|14.4
|12.3
|0.21%
|----
|[[Ust-Kutsky District|Ust-Kutsky]]
|Rur
|16.5
|14.5
|0.20%
|----
|[[Ust-Udinsky]]
|Rur
|19.0
|15.4
|0.36%
|----
|[[Cheremkhovsky]]
|Rur
|18.1
|16.1
|0.20%
|----
|[[Chunsky District|Chunsky]]
|Rur
|14.4
|16.4
| −0.20%
|----
|[[Shelekhovsky District|Shelekhovsky]]
|Rur
|13.7
|12.3
|0.14%
|----
|[[Alarsky]]
|OAO
|15.5
|11.7
|0.38%
|----
|[[Bayandayevsky]]
|OAO
|18.2
|14.0
|0.42%
|----
|[[Bokhansky]]
|OAO
|16.1
|12.9
|0.32%
|----
|[[Nukutsky]]
|OAO
|21.2
|12.6
|0.86%
|----
|[[Osinsky District, Irkutsk Oblast|Osinsky]]
|OAO
|17.9
|12.3
|0.56%
|----
|[[Ekhirit-Bulagatsky]]
|OAO
|20.8
|11.5
|0.93%
|----
|}