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For eight years, Primorye has become less by a whole city

In the eight years that have passed since the last census in 2002, the population of Primorsky Krai has decreased by about 100,000 people. This was announced to journalists by the head of Primorskstat Viktor Shapovalov. In Primorye...

In the eight years that have passed since the last census in 2002, the population of Primorsky Krai has decreased by about 100,000 people.

This was announced to journalists by the head of Primorskstat Viktor Shapovalov.

In Primorye, statisticians had at their disposal 1 million 887.3 thousand census forms, which is comparable to the current population (according to Viktor Fedorovich, a little more than 1% of Primorye residents refused to participate in the census, and about 3% could not be found at home). “The results will most likely be close to the current observations that we are making, which means that in the eight years that have passed since 2002, the population of Primorsky Krai has decreased by about 100,000 people,” Shapovalov said. At the time of the 2002 census, let us recall that the number of Primorye residents still exceeded the psychologically important two million bar, but now there are about 1.9 million people in the region. However, the official summing up ahead. As expected, only in April 2011 will be accurately determined the population in all of Russia, in each of its regions and in cities with a population of 50 thousand people. And in June 2012, other parameters will become clear - the national composition, sources of income, housing conditions, etc.