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Results from studying socio-demographic security of the regions of the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts are presented. It is shown that most of the subjects forming part of the regions, according to the integral indicator, are steadily located at the level of tension. Two regions: the Republic of Tyva and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast - during the study period (2000-2019) belonged to the zone with a crisis level. Among the main threats affecting the decrease in the security indicator are low life expectancy, low birth rate, population migration, low per capita incomes of the population, and high crime. It was found that, according to separate indicators, among the regions of the Siberian and Far Eastern Districts, there is some differentiation that changes over time. According to the life expectancy indicator in 2019, a crisis level of security was recorded in 19 out of 21 subjects, slightly higher than a critical indicator of Tomsk oblast and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). A stably crisis level of security of the regions in terms of the birth rate was observed in Altai, Kamchatka, Primorskii and Khabarovsk krais and in Kemerovo, Amur and Magadan oblasts. According to this indicator, the Republic of Tyva is in the zone with the level of well-being. In terms of the indicator of personal security, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Amur and Magadan oblasts and the Republic of Tyva are in the crisis zone, where as the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Omsk oblast are in the zone of stability. It is determined that one of the chief reasons for migration from the eastern regions is a significant differentiation of the per capita incomes; therefore, Republic of Tuva, Altai, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Region and the Zabaikalskii krai have long occupied the leading positions according to this indicator.