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.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 hours ago

    step 1: send your men to a pointless war
    step 2: potential mothers realize their sons would only be meat in the meat grinder
    step 3: nobody wants to have children anymore
    step 4: be confused??

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      8 hours ago

      Don’t forget removing any relief for people having kids. And dissolve their quality of life. That always goes over so well in completely diminishing any chance of population growth. Just ask Kim jung un

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        But if your child dies in a pointless war we can offer you a satchel of potatoes. Is good, yes?