ABSTRACT
The database consists of the Soviet censuses of 1959, 1970, and 1979, and population projections of the Foreign Demographic Analysis Division (FDAD) of the US Bureau of the Census. The source provides valuable projections of Soviet population by constituent republic and major economic region through the year 2000. The equations can be applied in various ways: to each ethnic group in each republic in which it resides; to the entirety of each group in the Soviet Union, ignoring location; to combinations of groups, i.e., Slavs, Baits and Muslim-Turkic people, to the populations of republics or other geographic areas; or to the population of the USSR as a whole. Since population growth rates differ so substantially for each ethnic group in each republic, we believe that applying the equations to each group in each republic yields the best estimates of future population.
