Population of Tyumen and Tyumen Oblast: Rosstat data by year

2026-10-16 · Население

As of 1 January 2024, 861,098 people lived in Tyumen. This is the latest published Rosstat estimate for the city; for 1 January 2025 and 2026 there are no city data on the website yet. Tyumen is 18th in Russia by number of residents and the fastest‑growing city in the Urals and Siberia, with more than half a million: since the 2002 census it has added 350 thousand people, a 68.5% increase. In the south of Tyumen Oblast, that is, excluding the Khanty‑Mansi and Yamalo‑Nenets districts, 1,626,809 people lived there on 1 January 2025, an increase of 11,355 over 2024.

Further below: Tyumen's population by year, its rank among cities, the population of the oblast and districts since 2012, reasons for growth and the national composition according to the census. All charts open on the website in interactive form.

How many people live in Tyumen

The census figures are marked in the row, the rest are Rosstat estimates as of 1 January.

In the eight years between the 2002 and 2010 censuses Tyumen grew by 71 thousand people. In the next eleven years it grew by 265 thousand, almost one and a half times. Currently, 53.3% of the south oblast's population lives in the city.

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Why the dip in 2022

The annual report lists 829 thousand for 1 January 2022, 18 thousand less than the census counted three months earlier. The city did not shrink in the autumn. At that time the estimate was still based on the 2010 census, and over ten years it lagged behind the actual growth. The census showed the difference, the calculation was corrected, and by 1 January 2023 the figure was already 856 thousand.

What place Tyumen holds among Russian cities

In the Rosstat bulletin as of 1 January 2024 there are 16 cities with a population of one million or more. The last of them, Volgograd, has 1,018,898 residents. In the group from 500 thousand to one million Tyumen is second, and in the overall list this is the 18th place.

Before Saratov there are 26,267 people, and the gap is narrowing. The average annual population of Saratov for 2023 was 889,632, and by 1 January it became lower. Tyumen, on the contrary: the average for the year was 858,358, and by the end of the year it was higher. In 2002 Saratov was larger than Tyumen by 362 thousand.

If we count people, since 2002 Tyumen has added more than any other city in the country, except Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar and Balashikha. Balashikha was expanded with new boundaries in 2015, so among cities with more than half a million, only Krasnodar grew faster than Tyumen: plus 76.3% versus 68.5%.

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The full list is discussed in the article "Largest cities of Russia by population".

Tyumen and Neighbours in the Urals and Siberia

Almost all major cities east of the Urals have grown since 2002, but in different ways. Tyumen outpaced even oil‑rich Surgut in growth rate. Omsk, which in 2002 was more than twice the size of Tyumen, has slightly decreased, and Kurgan lost one out of every eight residents.

How the capital of the neighbouring Urals is growing is examined in the article "Population of Yekaterinburg".

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Population of Tyumen Oblast by Year

Tyumen Oblast has three figures in the statistics, and they are easy to mix up. The Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets autonomous districts are part of it, but they are themselves subjects of the federation. Therefore Rosstat counts separately the whole oblast, each district, and “Tyumen Oblast without the autonomous districts”. The latter is the south with Tyumen, Tobolsk and Ishim.

Population as of January 1, thousand people.

From 2012 to 2025 the south of the oblast grew by 260.8 thousand people, or 19.1%. Until 2020 it added 23–30 thousand per year, then the growth slowed: in the last five years plus 47.9 thousand. Yugra over the same thirteen years grew by 14.1%, while Yamalo-Nenets lost residents from 2013 to 2021 and only then started to rise. The whole Tyumen Oblast together with the districts counted 3,931,696 people on January 1, 2025.

The population here is younger than the national average. People older than working age in the south of the oblast at the beginning of 2024 were 354 thousand, 21.9% of residents. In Russia it is 23.7%, in the neighboring Sverdlovsk Oblast 23.5%. In Yugra it is 16.0%, in Yamalo-Nenets 12.6%.

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Why the population of Tyumen Oblast is growing

In 2024, the south of the region grew by 11,355 people, or 0.70%. Almost all of the increase came from migration: plus 11,615 people. The number of deaths was 260 higher than births, i.e., natural growth was zero.

In terms of growth rate in 2024, the south of Tyumen Oblast outpaces Chechnya, Moscow and Leningrad Oblasts, Ingushetia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Dagestan, Magadan Oblast and both autonomous districts. Yamalo‑Nenets grew by 1.38%, Yugra by 1.27%, and both births and migration were positive there. The rest of the Urals are shrinking: Sverdlovsk Oblast lost 1,243 people, Chelyabinsk 10,674, Kurgan 8,537.

Arrivals mainly go to cities. The urban population of the south received 9,226 people from migration and grew by 11,024. Villages received 2,389 people, enough to offset their natural decline, and the rural population added 331 people. As of 1 January 2025, 67.9% of the south’s residents live in cities. In the Ural district the share is 82.2%, in Russia 75.1%. Rural residents are more numerous in the district only in Kurgan Oblast.

Population size and its components of change for 2024 →

Births and deaths

In 2023, 17,183 children were born and 15,965 people died in the south of the region, i.e., 108 births per 100 deaths. Per thousand residents there were 10.7 births and 9.9 deaths, a gain of 0.8. In Russia the figures are 8.6 and 12.1, a loss of 3.5. In Yugra the gain is 4.6 per thousand, in Yamalo‑Nenets 7.4: the population in these districts is noticeably younger than in the south.

In January–February 2025, the birth rate in the south rose to 10.5 per thousand from 9.9 a year earlier, while mortality fell to 11.2 from 11.8. The loss narrowed from 1.9 to 0.7 per thousand; in Russia for the same months it was 5.0.

Births and deaths by region for January–February 2025 →

Causes of death in Tyumen Oblast

In 2023, 990.4 people per 100,000 residents died in the south of the region. In Russia the figure is 1,206.2, i.e., 17.9% lower. Part of the difference is explained by age: there are fewer elderly people here than the national average, and the overall rate is lower as a result.

Below‑average mortality is observed for almost all major causes, including tuberculosis. Deaths from diseases of the digestive system are 30.5% lower, from neoplasms 27.1% lower, from heart and vascular diseases 19.1% lower. Two categories are worse than average: infections, 23.7 deaths per 100,000 versus 18.4 in Russia (plus 28.8%), and traffic accidents, plus 9.4%.

How mortality is distributed across the country is discussed in the article "Mortality by regions of Russia". Average life expectancy in a region can be seen on the page expected life expectancy in Tyumen Oblast.

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Who lives in Tyumen Oblast: the 2020 Census

The 2020 Census counted 1,601,940 people in the south of the region: 861,867 women and 740,073 men, 1,165 women per thousand men. In cities lived 67.5% of the population.

Nationality was not indicated by 207,177 people, 12.9% of residents, and 94.6% of them were city dwellers. The shares below are calculated from 1,394,763 people who indicated it.

Tatars are the second most numerous nationality here, and half of them, 50.5%, live in rural areas. Among Russians, the share of rural residents is 35.9%. The villages are held even more strongly by Kazakhs (60.5% in rural areas) and Siberian Tatars, which the census counts separately from Tatars: 70.2%. And among Azerbaijanis and Armenians, more than 80% live in cities.

National composition of the south of Tyumen Oblast according to the census →

Questions and answers

How many people live in Tyumen in 2026?

The latest published estimate refers to 1 January 2024: 861,098 people. Data for cities for later dates are not yet available on the website.

What rank does Tyumen hold by population size?

18th in Russia on 1 January 2024, between Saratov and Tolyatti. Among cities with fewer than one million inhabitants, only Saratov is larger than Tyumen.

How many people live in Tyumen Oblast?

It depends on what you count. The south of the region without autonomous districts had 1,626,809 people on 1 January 2025, the whole region together with Yugra and Yamalo‑Nenets Autonomous Okrug 3,931,696.

Briefly

• In Tyumen on 1 January 2024 there lived 861,098 people, 18th place in Russia, second after Saratov among cities from half‑million to million.
• Since the 2002 census the city added 350 thousand residents, by 68.5%. Faster growth among cities over half‑million was only seen in Krasnodar, if the expanded Balashikha is not counted.
• The south of Tyumen Oblast has grown since 2012 by 19.1%, to 1,626,809 people on 1 January 2025.
• In 2024 the increase was 11,355 people, and almost all of it came from migration. Births and deaths balanced out.
• Mortality in the south of the region is 17.9% lower than the Russian average, but deaths from infections are 28.8% more frequent.

See also

• Average salary in Tyumen Oblast
• Population of Russia by regions
• Peoples of Russia: national composition
• Population of Russia in 2024