Posted on 02/08/2014 12:17:57 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Sochi Olympics are now officially underway, and I’ll be pivoting to cover that shortly, but the end of the year results from Rosstat are in and it’s official: Russia just recorded the first natural population growth since the Soviet Union collapsed. It’s true that the amount of growth wasn’t a particularly large: a total of 23,000, which amounts to an annual rate of about 0.016%. But when you look at how this compares to Russia’s recent performance you see that it’s a pretty astounding turnaround.
Will the momentum of recent years last forever? No. The generation born during the economic chaos and dislocation of the 1990′s is simply too small to maintain the recent increase in the birth rate. Barring an unprecedented increase in fertility, at some point over the next 3-5 years Russia will reenter negative natural population growth.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Illegal problems starting up over there already?
Discouraging buggery and placing value on real families will do that.
I am always happy to see people stepping up to the plate
Blame Putin for putting pride back into being a Russian.
What if half of them are named Mohamhead and the other half are Fatimah?
One can confidently conclude homos didn’t have anything to do with birthrate increase.
Maybe little Russia version of Marvin Gaye may have help LOL! or Barry White
What the graph shows is the birth rate declined steeply with the turmoil of the break-up of the Soviet Union, but as the price of oil went up, and Russia is an exporter, the economic conditions improved and birth rate recovered.
It must be those shirtless pictures of Putin provided to Russians for their homes for “motivation” ....
Yeah but the birth rate will drop soon due to a small cohort that was born in the ‘90s.
SO Vlady is Russia version of Barry White LOL!
‘Be fruitfful and multiply’- it’s not just good advice!
One would think the cold weather would be enough encouragement. ;-)
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