Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said reviving the nation's birth rate is one of Russia's "top priorities."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29962667

Russia has moved to classify key demographic statistics following a dramatic collapse in its birth rate, which has plunged to levels not seen since the late 18th or early 19th century, according to a leading Russian demographer.

For decades, Russia has been experiencing a plunging birth rate and population decline, which appears to have worsened amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine—with high casualty rates and men fleeing the country to avoid being conscripted to fight.

Projections estimate that Russia’s population will fall to about 132 million in the next two decades. The United Nations has predicted that in a worst-case scenario, by the start of the next century, Russia’s population could almost halve to 83 million.

  • doo@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Fighting age, men, healthy or at least not late stage alcoholics or other drug addicts. And you need somebody to stay behind and work in the factories. And then even ruzzians have to maintain tooth-to-tail ratio, even if it’s as low as 1:3.