Editing Yakutsk (section)

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
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|footnote = Sources: Census data, estimate<ref name=2025estimate>{{cite web|title=Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2025 года|url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Сhisl_MO_01-01-2025.xlsx|publisher=[[Federal State Statistics Service (Russia)|Federal State Statistics Service]]|accessdate=27 April 2025}}</ref>
|[[Russian_Empire_census|1897]] | 6535
|[[1926 Soviet census|1926]] | 10558
|[[1939 Soviet census|1939]] | 52882
|[[1959 Soviet census|1959]] | 74330
|[[1970 Soviet census|1970]] | 107617
|[[1979 Soviet census|1979]] | 152368
|[[1989 Soviet census|1989]] | 186626
|[[2002 Russian census|2002]] | 210642
|[[2010 Russian census|2010]] | 269601
|[[2021 Russian census|2021]] | 355443
|2025 | 372801
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According to [[Rosstat]] estimates for 2025, the population of Yakutsk is 372,801 in the city proper and 390,236 in the city's urban area, which is more than one third of the total population of [[Sakha Republic|Sakha]].<ref name=2025estimate/>

In the [[Russian Census 2021|2021 Census]], the following ethnic groups were listed:<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 7, 2023 |title=Город Якутск: жители сквозь призму статистики |trans-title=City of Yakutsk: residents through the prism of statistics |url=https://якутск.рф/press-tsentr/gorod-yakutsk-zhiteli-skvoz-prizmu-statistiki/ |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410110935/https://%D1%8F%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA.%D1%80%D1%84/press-tsentr/gorod-yakutsk-zhiteli-skvoz-prizmu-statistiki/ |archive-date=2023-04-10 |access-date=2023-08-01 |website=District administration of the city of Yakutsk |language=Russian}}</ref>
* [[Yakuts]]: 59.2%
* [[Russians]]: 26.4%
* [[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]]: 3.4%
* [[Evenks]]: 1.9%
* [[Tajiks]]: 1.7%
* [[Chinese people|Chinese]]: 1.4%
* [[Armenians]]: 1.1%
* Other ethnicities: 4.9%