Who's who in Moscow? Those whose forbears back to their great-grandparents were also muscovites account for only 2% of the capital's population. Moscow has grown 10-fold in the last century, to 10.5 million. By 2020 the population is expected to grow to 16 million, of which Russians will comprise 80% and Moscow-born inhabitants less than 50% (this is in line with European norms: 80% of londoners are British, 72% of parisians are French) (ru_anti_moscow, in Russian).