You state....”Russia has about 10 MILLION documented migrant workers plus millions of undocumented ones, they need every one of them. Because of a negative birthrate since ~1970.”....
Sounds like the same often being said about Our country....so that’s really nothing unusual for all the western nations let alone Russia.
—”Sounds like the same often being said about Our country....so that’s really nothing unusual for all the western nations let alone Russia.”
Russia has a serious population problem and they are well aware of it. Nothing new.
Some say demography is destiny.
Slight differences become huge over time.
And Russia has been going down for ~ 50 years.
Russia United States
Population growth rate -0.2% (2021 est.) 0.7% (2021 est.)
Birth rate 9.71 births/1,000 population (2021 est.) 12.33 births/1,000 population (2021 est.)
Death rate 13.4 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.) 8.35 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.)
Net migration rate 1.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.) 3.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.)
Better formating at the source:
Graph:
https://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=25
In the unlikely event, you wanted to read about Russian demographics...
https://jamestown.org/program/russias-demographic-collapse-is-accelerating/
What has mattered, Raksha says, are three other factors: the continuing trend among Russians to have fewer children; the government’s reduction in pro-natalist policies, or even their outright cancellation given financial exigencies; and fears among many Russians about the future given economic problems and the war. Not only are these driving down the fertility rate to lows not seen in peacetime before, but they are also combining to reduce the future number of women who might bear children in the future, thus limiting the ability of the country to escape these problems. The number in this cohort is now declining at a rate of 3 percent annually.