Samara's 2025 population is now estimated at 1,153,710. In 1950, the population of Samara was 658,334. Samara experienced a decrease of -740 residents over the past year, marking an annual decline of -0.06%.These population estimates and projections come from the latest revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects. These estimates represent the Urban agglomeration of Samara, which typically includes Samara's population in addition to adjacent suburban areas.
| City | 2025 Pop. ↓ | Growth |
|---|---|---|
| Moscow | 12,737,400 | 0.2% |
| Saint Petersburg | 5,597,340 | 0.28% |
| Novosibirsk | 1,706,660 | 0.3% |
| Yekaterinburg | 1,537,000 | 0.26% |
| Kazan | 1,299,580 | 0.26% |
| Nizhniy Novgorod | 1,249,760 | -0.04% |
| Chelyabinsk | 1,246,210 | 0.19% |
| Omsk | 1,180,820 | 0.01% |
| Krasnoyarsk | 1,177,840 | 0.4% |
| Samara | 1,153,710 | -0.06% |
| Ufa | 1,148,400 | 0.14% |
| Rostov-on-Don | 1,140,390 | 0.07% |
| Voronezh | 1,086,000 | 0.21% |
| Perm | 1,085,990 | 0.17% |
| Krasnodar | 1,017,530 | 0.69% |
| Volgograd | 992,268 | -0.11% |
| Tyumen | 926,519 | 1.05% |
| Saratov | 837,323 | -0.04% |
| Tolyatti | 689,506 | -0.14% |
| Izhevsk | 652,790 | 0.05% |
| Irkutsk | 648,468 | 0.19% |
| Khabarovsk | 644,284 | 0.21% |
| Barnaul | 642,415 | 0.07% |
| Ulyanovsk | 622,745 | -0.01% |
| Yaroslavl | 613,355 | 0.04% |
| Tomsk | 611,949 | 0.32% |
| Vladivostok | 609,863 | 0.03% |
| Makhachkala | 602,853 | 0.08% |
| Kemerovo | 570,586 | 0.12% |
| Orenburg | 570,039 | 0.05% |
| Balashikha | 569,163 | 1.12% |
| Novokuznetsk | 546,951 | -0.05% |
| Ryazan | 540,326 | 0.03% |
| Naberezhnye Tchelny | 536,536 | 0.06% |
| Astrakhan | 534,778 | 0.02% |
| Penza | 520,546 | -0.03% |
| Kirov | 520,243 | 0.18% |
| Cheboksary | 517,136 | 0.27% |
| Lipetsk | 502,842 | -0.07% |
| Kaliningrad | 495,031 | 0.28% |
| Sochi | 481,033 | 0.75% |
| Kursk | 475,607 | 0.28% |
| Tula | 462,035 | -0.23% |
| Stavropol | 461,752 | 0.3% |
| Ulan-Ude | 451,894 | 0.22% |
| Tver | 427,338 | 0.09% |
| Magnitogorsk | 420,923 | 0.03% |
| Belgorod | 420,057 | 0.34% |
| Surgut | 413,754 | 0.66% |
| Ivanovo | 398,393 | -0.1% |
| Bryansk | 390,872 | -0.19% |
| Chita | 363,732 | 0.23% |
| Vladimir | 360,331 | 0.06% |
| Kaluga | 352,870 | 0.15% |
| Arkhangelsk | 347,819 | -0.05% |
| Nizhny Tagil | 343,700 | -0.16% |
| Podolsk | 343,650 | 0.66% |
| Yakutsk | 343,581 | 0.53% |
| Volzhsky | 331,799 | 0.08% |
| Smolensk | 326,841 | -0.04% |
| Saransk | 326,515 | 0.18% |
| Cherepovets | 319,500 | 0.01% |
| Vologda | 318,455 | 0.08% |
| Orel | 313,814 | -0.07% |
| Kurgan | 305,791 | -0.24% |
| Vladikavkaz | 297,145 | -0.15% |
