Among them, an almost equal number of men and women (approximately 7 million people).
Most of them are independently engaged in sports in Moscow (758.5 thousand), Bashkiria (572.9 thousand), Moscow Region (502.7 thousand), Sverdlovsk Region (477.2 thousand) and Tatarstan (473.8 thousand). .).
Least of all - in the Nenets Autonomous District (1.69 thousand), Chukotka (4.9 thousand), Magadan Region (9.7 thousand), Kalmykia (17 thousand) and the Jewish Autonomous Region (24.2 thousand).
The Rosstat press service specified to RT that these statistics include Russians who play sports at home, in the courtyard, in parks and recreational areas.
The study was conducted in 2019, and residents of all regions of the country (60 thousand households) took part in it. Statistics take into account Russians aged 3 to 79 years.
Earlier, Rosstat reported that the life expectancy of Russians will increase in the next 15 years.