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The UN is projecting that the decline that started in 2021 will continue, and if current demographic conditions persist, Russia's population will be 120 million in 50 years, a decline of about 17%. [39] [38] In January 2024, the Russian statistics agency Rosstat predicted that Russia's population could drop to 130 million by 2046. [40]
Russia at the end of the 19th century was a country with a young population: the number of children significantly exceeded the number of the elderly. Up to 1938, the population of the Soviet Union remained "demographically young", but later, since 1959, began its demographic ageing: the proportion of young age began to decline, and the elderly started to increase, which was the result of lower ...
Stamp depicting Russian soldier killed in Ukraine. The war in that country has further exacerbated Russia's demographic crisis. [89] The decline in Russia's total population is among the largest in numbers, but not in percentage. After having peaked at 148,689,000 in 1991, the population then decreased, falling to 142,737,196 by 2008. [90]
The demographic trend spells trouble for Russia's economy, which is already dealing with a severe worker shortage. At the end of 2023, Russia was short a record 5 million workers, according to an ...
Russia has now been at war with Ukraine for two and a half years, causing mortality in the country to spike and exacerbating its population crisis. The invasion has also prompted a mass exodus ...
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The contemporary population of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania numbered 3.6 million, with Ruthenians constituting the majority (see Demographic history of Poland). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] As the population of Muscovy was growing the size of the average peasant allotment declined (though there were significant regional variations) and the wages declined as ...
(Bloomberg) -- President Vladimir Putin spent years racing against Russia’s demographic clock, only to order an invasion of Ukraine that’s consigning his country’s population to a historic ...