Country scorecard
Russia
Europe · 144M people
ALPS
1.10
languages per person
#193 of 235 most multilingual
GLCI
6%
globally connected
Largely monolingual — the average person here speaks 1.1 languages.
Most connected partners
Where a random person from Russia is most likely to share a language — the pair GLCI.
- 🇧🇾 Belarus98%
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine78%
- 🇦🇲 Armenia70%
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania61%
- 🇱🇻 Latvia57%
What people speak
Share of the population with at least conversational (A2+) command.
- Russian99%
- English11%
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