Agin-Buryat Okrug
Okrug of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
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Agin-Buryat Okrug
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| Coordinates: 51°00′N 114°30′E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Zabaykalsky Krai |
| Established | 2008 |
| Administrative center | Aginskoye |
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• Total | 19,600 km2 (7,600 sq mi) |
Agin-Buryat Okrug (Russian: Агинский Бурятский округ; Buryat: Агын Буряадай тойрог, romanized: Agiin Buryaadai toirog, IPA: [ɐˈɣɨɴ bʊˈrʲadæ ˈtœrəq]), or simply Aga Buryatia, is an administrative division of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.[1] It was a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Chita Oblast) until it merged with Chita Oblast to form Zabaykalsky Krai on 1 March 2008. Prior to the merger, it was called Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug (Агинский Бурятский автономный округ). Its administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Aginskoye. It is one of the two Buryat okrugs in Russia, the other one is Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug of Irkutsk Oblast.
- Area: 19,312.3 square kilometers (7,456.5 sq mi)
- Population: 77,167 (2010 census);[2] 72,213 (2002 census);[3] 77,032 (1989 Soviet census).[4]
Demographics
Vital statistics
| Average population (x 1000) | Live births | Deaths | Natural change | Crude birth rate (per 1000) | Crude death rate (per 1000) | Natural change (per 1000) | Fertility rates | |
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| 1970 | 66 | 1 699 | 451 | 1 248 | 25.7 | 6.8 | 18.9 | |
| 1975 | 68 | 1 881 | 541 | 1 340 | 27.7 | 8.0 | 19.7 | |
| 1980 | 70 | 2 035 | 686 | 1 349 | 29.1 | 9.8 | 19.3 | |
| 1985 | 75 | 2 259 | 638 | 1 621 | 30.1 | 8.5 | 21.6 | |
| 1990 | 71 | 1 868 | 604 | 1 264 | 26.5 | 8.6 | 17.9 | |
| 1991 | 71 | 1 647 | 591 | 1 056 | 23.1 | 8.3 | 14.8 | |
| 1992 | 72 | 1 518 | 655 | 863 | 20.9 | 9.0 | 11.9 | |
| 1993 | 73 | 1 435 | 759 | 676 | 19.6 | 10.4 | 9.2 | 2.76 |
| 1994 | 73 | 1 429 | 864 | 565 | 19.6 | 11.8 | 7.7 | 2.72 |
| 1995 | 72 | 1 338 | 738 | 600 | 18.5 | 10.2 | 8.3 | 2.57 |
| 1996 | 71 | 1 174 | 765 | 409 | 16.4 | 10.7 | 5.7 | 2.30 |
| 1997 | 71 | 1 115 | 698 | 417 | 15.7 | 9.8 | 5.9 | 2.19 |
| 1998 | 71 | 1 182 | 722 | 460 | 16.6 | 10.1 | 6.5 | 2.29 |
| 1999 | 71 | 1 163 | 771 | 392 | 16.3 | 10.8 | 5.5 | 2.22 |
| 2000 | 71 | 1 098 | 838 | 260 | 15.4 | 11.8 | 3.6 | 2.08 |
| 2001 | 71 | 1 171 | 841 | 330 | 16.4 | 11.8 | 4.6 | 2.21 |
| 2002 | 72 | 1 197 | 886 | 311 | 16.6 | 12.3 | 4.3 | 2.26 |
| 2003 | 73 | 1 229 | 840 | 389 | 16.9 | 11.6 | 5.4 | 2.28 |
| 2004 | 73 | 1 222 | 900 | 322 | 16.8 | 12.4 | 4.4 | 2.20 |
| 2005 | 73 | 1 234 | 901 | 333 | 16.9 | 12.3 | 4.6 | 2.12 |
| 2006 | 73 | 1 330 | 885 | 445 | 18.1 | 12.0 | 6.1 | 2.17 |
| 2007 | 74 | 1 543 | 817 | 726 | 20.9 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 2.43 |
| 2008 | 75 | 1 732 | 770 | 962 | 23.2 | 10.3 | 12.9 | 2.64 |
| 2009 | 76 | 1 739 | 729 | 1 010 | 23.0 | 9.6 | 13.3 | 2,63 |
| 2010 | 77 | 1 837 | 729 | 1 108 | 23.9 | 9.5 | 14.4 | 2.71 |
Ethnic groups
While residents of the autonomous okrug (as of the 2020 census) identified themselves as belonging to 54 different ethnic groups, most of them consider themselves either Buryats (65.3%) or ethnic Russians (33.2%), the Tatars at 390 (0.5%) ending up as a distant third most numerous group in the region.
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1959 census | 1970 census | 1979 census | 1989 census | 2002 census | 2010 census | 2020 census | |||||||
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| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Buryats | 23,374 | 47.6% | 33,117 | 50.4% | 35,868 | 52.0% | 42,362 | 54.9% | 45,149 | 62.5% | 50,125 | 65.1% | 45,242 | 65.3% |
| Russians | 23,857 | 48.6% | 28,966 | 44.0% | 29,098 | 42.1% | 31,473 | 40.8% | 25,366 | 35.1% | 25,079 | 32.5% | 22,988 | 33.2% |
| Others | 1,878 | 3.8% | 3,685 | 5.6% | 4,069 | 5.9% | 3,353 | 4.3% | 1,698 | 2.4% | 1,838 | 2.4% | 1,021 | 1.5% |