Russia had the
tenth-highest number of confirmed cases in the world, after the
United States,
India,
France,
Brazil,
Germany,
South Korea, the
United Kingdom,
Italy and
Japan. According to detailed data published by the
Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), 114,268 people with COVID-19 died between April and November 2020.
[5][6] However, over 300,000
excess deaths[7] were reported in the same time period, suggesting that the official pandemic death tally greatly underestimated the true number of COVID-19 related deaths.
[8][9]
Analysis of excess deaths from official government statistics, based on births and deaths and excluding migration, showed that Russia had its largest ever annual population drop in peacetime, with the population declining by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021, which demographer Alexei Raksha interpreted as being primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic.