Posted on 01/30/2015 5:36:02 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Rosstat just released its latest tranche of demographic data, including its first estimate of Russia’s population as of January 1, 2015. When you subtract out Crimea, as I think is perfectly appropriate to do, the total population was just short of 144 million, or 143,975,923 if you want to be precise.
This represents an increase of about 275,000 on last January’s estimate of 143.7 million. That is decidedly lower growth than Russia recorded during 2013, but as the following chart shows it’s still a heck of a lot better than most of its post-Soviet history, when, even accounting for immigration, the country regularly lost more than 500,000 people a year. As bad as the demographic outlook might be at the moment, it was much worse in the not too distant past.
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145 million with the Republic Of Crimea included.
Russia is more populous than the leading European countries.
Russian demographic is cyclic, between baby booms and extinction events and the latter somehow sets a background.
Recent growth is an echo of a baby boom of mid to late 1980s, when most families started to have two or more children.
You should expect baby boomers’ children to contribute into a population growth some 19-24 years later.
The problem now that’s a turn for 1990s kids to start families but their era was a time of extinction event. Little to none people were born at the time and you can’t expect them to contribute as well.
2020-2030 should be a bad decade in Russia before their birth rate starts to rise again.
Germany’s population is now 80 million but they’re losing population fast.
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