Does Russia have more people than Canada?
Yes. Russia has more people than Canada: about 144 million against 41.7 million (World Bank estimates for 2025), 3.4 times as many.
Russia is also more crowded: 8.8 people per km² of land against 4.7.
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Why it surprises
Russia and Canada are two of the largest countries in the world, both cold and northern, so they can seem like a natural pair. Their populations are very different. Russia has about 144 million people and Canada about 41.7 million in the World Bank’s 2025 estimates: Russia has about 3.4 times as many people, though only about 1.9 times as much land. Both are thinly populated on average, with about 9 people per km² of land in Russia and fewer than 5 in Canada, and in both, people cluster in a small part of the territory. In Canada the pattern is striking: in 2021 about two-thirds of Canadians lived within 100 km of the border with the United States. So Canada’s huge shape on the map says little about how many people live there.
Sources for this explanation
- World Bank: api.worldbank.org, checked 25 October 2026
- Statistics Canada: statcan.gc.ca, checked 25 October 2026
Where the numbers come from
Population and area: The World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0). Total population (SP.POP.TOTL) for 2025. Details: Russia and Canada.
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