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Russia has been tending toward a demographic crisis for several years now. The Kremlin has tried to intervene to boost birth rates by offering tax breaks and expanding childcare for low-income ...
Russia's birth rate hit a 25-year low in the first half of 2024, with 599,600 births. The demographic crisis worsened due to the Ukraine war, causing many to delay having children.
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 ...
From 1992 to 2012, and again since 2016, Russia's death rate has exceeded its birth rate, which has been called a demographic crisis by analysts. [20] In 2009, Russia recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years; during the mid-2010s, Russia had seen increased population growth due to declining death rates , increased ...
The pilot census was conducted from October 1 to October 31, 2018. The main purpose was the development and testing of software and methodological, organizational and technological issues of the 2020 Census, taking into account the use of new methods of collecting information. [9]
The UN is projecting that the decline that started in 2021 will continue, and if current demographic conditions persist, Russia's population would be 120 million in fifty years, a decline of about 17%. [33], [94] The UN's 2024 scenarios project Russia's population to be between 74 million and 112 million in 2100, a decline of 25 to 50%. [98]
Russia was in a demographic crisis even before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. More than 300,000 Russian troops died or were injured in the Ukraine war by the end of 2023, US ...
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 ...