Posted on 06/25/2008 1:25:54 PM PDT by GOPGuide
The birth rate in Russia in the first four months of 2008 increased by 12 percent from the same period of 2007.
In the first four months of this year, 547,100 children were born, an increase of 58,400 from the same period of 2007, the Ministry of Health and Social Development said.
“The number of applications for maternity capital certificates is also growing,” the ministry said.
According to the Pension Fund, 218,032 maternity capital certificates had been issued by June 7, and 17,569 applications are under consideration.
As the birth rate grows, the natural decrease situation is also improving. In the first four months of the year, the natural decrease in the population slowed down by 18.1 percent from the same period of 2007.
The natural decrease ratio in the first four months of 2008 was 3.8 per 1,000 people compared to 4.6 in 2007.
The permanent population of the country decreased 96,000 (or 0.07 percent) in the first four months of this year, according to report of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service quoted by the Prime-Tass business news agency earlier this week.
As of May 1, 2008, the country’s population was 141.9 million.
In the first four months of the year, 547,100 births and 725,200 deaths were reported.
In the same period, the birth rate increased by 58,400, while the death rate grew by 19,000.
The natural decrease calculated as a difference between the number of deaths and births was 178,100 in January-April 2008 as compared to 217,500 in the same months of 2007.
In the first four months of 2008, the number of marriages decreased by 20,000 to 282,700, while the number of divorces grew by 13,400 to reach 236,000.
The growth of births was registered in 81 Russian regions, and the growth of deaths was registered in 71 Russian regions.
The natural decrease in the population was 23.1 percent in the country as a whole, and 50-60 percent in ten Russian regions. It was reported in 18 Russian regions.
In the first four months of the year, the number of migrants inside Russia increased by 20,200 people (or 3.4 percent) as compared to the same period of last year, and the migration growth rate was 18.1 percent (12,600 people).
The total number of registered immigrants increased by 11,300 people (13.7 percent), including immigrants from former Soviet republics, representing an increase of 14.2 percent (or 11,300 people).
At the same time, the number of those who left Russia decreased by 1,300 (9.9 percent), including the number of emigrants to non-CIS countries went down by 700 (15.3 percent).
Wonderful news; hopefully the trend will continue.
How many of them are Muslims?
Are they rushin’ into things?
You can verify it from the stats in the article.
For every three Russians born four Russians die.
Russia has a huge demographic problem - its population is dying off. Average lifespan of a Russian man is something like 56.
To fix this problem, Putin introduced “maternity capital certificates” - essentially, paying women to have a second child. The going rate is 250,000 Rubles (about $10.5k).
This isn’t a cash payment, but a certificate that can be applied “to pay for accomodation for her family, to cover some education costs for her child(ren), or put into her pension account.”
So now we know that half a million Russian women are desperate enough for money to have a second child.
I do not believe this will turn the population problem around in itself. Multiple kids are a liability in Russia because the average women ends up divorced and with the kids. Hundreds of thousands of kids end up in state run orphanages each year. We adopted one. It is bleak there.
No nation can stay great or become great while its population dies off. Japan is facing the same issue and is closing thousands of elementary schools each year.
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The birth rate in Russia in the first four months of 2008 increased by 12 percent from the same period of 2007.
Wow. And to think that I was only there for 5 weeks.
well Japan isn’t in quite the trouble Russia is in. Japan is incresingly moving towards mechanizing their economy to offset labor shortages and making plans to deal with an aging population, they’re in a much better position to deal with an low birthrate.
Russia on the other hand is just a mess. A country with such a massive and rich territory shouldn’t be suffering population decline. Particularly when you’ve got a crowded and ambitious country bordering an enormous and underpopulated territory.
There will be a move by Japanese to move to the Philippines
or “import” Philippine workers to Japan to care for their aging population.
Mechanization can only carry you so far. Once you dive below the replacement rate, you are simply not producing enough offspring to maintain your population. Japan doesn’t allow much in the way of immigration either...
But Russia is a mess.
Chechnyans sp?
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