The Mansi. Demographics (Population Dynamics, Urban/Rural Population, Gender and Age Breakdown, Youth Cohort)

The total number of Mansi, according to the 2020 All-Russian Population Census, is 12,308 people (5,725 men and 6,583 women).

The 1979 census puts the number of the Mansi at 7.434 persons; in 1989 in the USSR there were 8.459 Mansi and 8.266 Mansi in the RSFSR. Urban population accounted for 45.7%, and rural population for 54.3%. Of them, 36.9 % called Mansi their native language: 25.1 % of the Mansi urban population and 46.5 % of the rural Mansi population. More than 60 % of the Mansi called Russian their native language: 74.3 % of the urban Mansi and 52.9 % of the rural Mansi. The Khanty-Mansi autonomous area had 6.600 Mansi (about 80 %). The 2002 Census put the number of Mansi at 11.432 persons, their number increased by 35% since 1989. According to the 2010 census, the Mansi population was at 12.269 persons. Around 80% of the Mansi live in The Khanty-Mansi autonomous area. Mostly they live in three districts of the area: the Beryozovo, Kondinsky, and Oktyabrskoye districts. 

Accelerating urbanization is another important feature of the indigenous population’s demographics. The following cities have high shares of indigenous peoples of the North: Khanty-Mansiysk, Nizhnevartovsk, Nefteyugansk, and Surgut. In 2010, 49.1% of the Mansi in the Khanty-Mansi autonomous area – Yugra lived in cities and 50.9% in rural areas. Every third Khanty and every second Mansi lives in a city.

Out of the 155 Mansi living in the Sverdlovsk region, 86 live in forest settlements, or yurts with one to eight families in each. The most famous ones are the Anyamov Yurt (Treskolye village), the Bakhtnyarov Yurt, the Pakin Yurt (Poma village), the Samindalov Yurt (Suevat village), the Kurikov Yurt (Paul village), etc. Other Ivdel (Lozva-Pelym) Mansi are dispersed through the villages of Vizhiy, Burmantovo, Khorpia, and the city of Ivdel.