The population fell to Don.

Fertility in the Rostov region can in no way to defeat death - over the past year, the population decreased by 0.5%.

The urban population has declined by 14.4 thousand people, agriculture - by 7.2 thousand people.

number of deaths in the past year amounted to 63.8 thousand, exceeding the number of births to 1.5 times (born 43,6 thousand). At the same time in 2007, compared with the previous year, the number of births increased by 2.7 thousand and the mortality rate decreased by 2.8 thousand. On the decline of the population have a great influence migration. The outflow of people from the Rostov region exceeds the number of arrivals to the region to take up permanent residence. Last year, for these reasons that the population decreased by 1.3 tyssyachi people. Rostovchane migrate to other regions of Russia.

Rosstat estimated population of on-Don to the beginning of this year amounted to more than 4 miilionov 254 thousand people: the urban population - about 2 million 843 thousand people, or 66.8% and rural population - 1 million 411 thousand people, or 33,2%.