Editing Norilsk (section)

==Demographics==

===Population===
{{Historical populations|1939|13886|1959|109442|1970|135487|1979|180358|1989|174673|2002|134832|2010|175365|2021|174453|type=|source=Censuses<ref>{{cite web|title=(USSR) Urban population of the union republics, and their territorial units|url=https://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/census.php}}</ref><ref>{{ cite web | url = http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/1_TOM_01_04.xls | title = Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года. Том. 1, таблица 4. Численность населения России, федеральных округов, субъектов Российской Федерации, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов - райцентров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120203125040/http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/1_TOM_01_04.xls | url-status = dead | archivedate = 2012-02-03 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite web | url = http://krasstat.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/krasstat/resources/20d7bd804eba60379580f5263284271d/1.10.xlsx | title = Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Итоги по Красноярскому краю. 1.10 Численность населения гор.округов, мун.районов, гор. и сел. поселе | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20151222093629/http://krasstat.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/krasstat/resources/20d7bd804eba60379580f5263284271d/1.10.xlsx | url-status = dead | archivedate = 2015-12-22 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/tab-5_VPN-2020.xlsx | title = Таблица 5. Численность населения России, федеральных округов, субъектов Российской Федерации, городских округов, муниципальных районов, муниципальных округов, городских и сельских поселений, городских населенных пунктов, сельских населенных пунктов с населением 3000 человек и более - Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2021 года | accessdate = 2021-10-01 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20220901194902/https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/tab-5_VPN-2020.xlsx | url-status = dead | archivedate = 2022-09-01 }}</ref>}}The population of Norilsk as of 2021 is 174,453.<ref>{{cite web |title=Table 5. Population of Russia, federal districts, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, urban districts, municipal districts, municipal districts, urban and rural settlements, urban settlements, rural settlements with a population of 3000 people or more|url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/tab-5_VPN-2020.xlsx|language=ru|publisher=[[Rosstat]]|date=2022-09-01}}</ref> After the fall of the [[USSR]] the population dropped by 40,000, but this was offset by the subsequent merger of the towns of [[Kayerkan]] and [[Talnakh]] into Norilsk, maintaining a permanent population of 175,000. Including temporary residents, the population can reach up to 220,000.

Life expectancy for local residents is about 10 years less than average Russian life expectancy,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fiore |first=Victoria |date=November 8, 2017 |title=A Toxic, Closed-Off City on the Edge of the World |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/545228/my-deadly-beautiful-city-norilsk/ |access-date=2018-03-21 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}}</ref> which as of 2013 was around 69 years.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Walsh |first=Bryan |date=2013-11-04 |title=See the world's 10 most polluted places (and learn how they got that way...) |language=en-US |magazine=Time |url=https://science.time.com/2013/11/04/urban-wastelands-the-worlds-10-most-polluted-places/slide/norilsk-russia/ |access-date=2020-10-25 |issn=0040-781X}}</ref>

===Ethnic composition===
[[File:Dish Stroganina .jpg|right|thumb|[[Stroganina]], sliced raw fish, is one of the traditional foods eaten by Siberia's northern indigenous peoples.]]
The city has an ethnically diverse population. As of 2021, the predominant ethnic and cultural groups were Russians, Azerbaijanis, Ukrainians, Tatars, Bashkirs, Nogais, Lezgins, Kazakhs, Ossetians, Chuvash and Kyrgyz. The population of Norilsk consists almost entirely of people who moved to the city in the second half of the 20th century and their descendants, but many of the descendants of prisoners who were amnestied in 1953 still live in the city. There are very few representatives of indigenous ethnicities - [[Nenets people|Nenets]], [[Enets]], [[Nganasans]] and [[Dolgans]] - in the city.

There were 77 recognized ethnic groups in Norilsk as of 2021.<ref name=ethnic2021>{{cite web|title=Национальный состав населения|url=https://24.rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0%201.(25).xlsx|publisher=[[Federal State Statistics Service (Russia)|Federal State Statistics Service]]|accessdate=17 May 2023}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Ethnicity
!Population !! Percentage
|-
| [[Russians]]
|107,189 || 81.7%
|-
| [[Azerbaijanis]]
|4,694 || 3.6%
|-
| [[Ukrainians]]
|2,683 || 2.0%
|-
| [[Tatars]]
|1,792 || 1.4%
|-
| [[Bashkirs]]
|1,769 || 1.3%
|-
| [[Nogais]]
|1,748 || 1.3%
|-
| [[Lezgins]]
|1,588 || 1.2%
|-
| Others
|9,806 || 7.5%
|}

As of January 1, 2021, in terms of population, the city ranked 103rd out of 1,116 cities in the Russian Federation.

{| class="wikitable"
|
|'''2009'''
|'''2017'''
|'''2018'''
|'''2019'''
|'''2020'''
|-
|Born
|2,407
|2,478
|2,381
|2,120
|2,148
|-
|Died
|1,205
|1,055
|1,024
|841
|1,061
|-
|Natural population increase
|1,202
|1,423
|1,357
|1,279
|1,087
|-
|Migration inflow
|3,591
|13,395
|14,207
|12,585
|11,692
|-
|Migration outflow
|6,752
|13,233
|14,139
|13,024
|11,692
|-
|Increase/decrease due to migration
|<nowiki>-3,161</nowiki>
|162
|68
|<nowiki>-439</nowiki>
|<nowiki>-257</nowiki>
|}
<small>Source — FEDERAL SERVICE OF STATE STATISTICS<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gks.ru/dbscripts/munst/munst04/DBInet.cgi|title=База данных показателей муниципальных образований|website=gks.ru|access-date=2022-03-05}}</ref></small>

===Religion===
[[File:Nurd Kamal Mosque.jpg|thumb|[[Nord Kamal Mosque]] is the world's northernmost mosque.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 April 2007 |title=Arctic mosque stays open but Muslim numbers shrink |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-muslims-russia-arctic-idUSL1072493620070415}}</ref>]]
[[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]] is the main religion in Norilsk. There is a Russian Orthodox cathedral, several Russian Orthodox churches and a [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)|Ukrainian Orthodox church]]. There is also a mosque in Norilsk. Built in 1998 and belonging to the local [[Tatars|Tatar]] community, it is considered to be the northernmost Muslim prayer house in the world.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Paxton |first=Robin |date=2007-05-15 |title=Arctic mosque stays open but Muslim numbers shrink |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-muslims-russia-arctic-idUSL1072493620070415 |access-date=2015-02-28}}</ref>

Since 2014, the city has been the center of the newly formed Norilsk Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.