Posted on 10/22/2005 8:08:20 AM PDT by george76
Russia's population has shrunk by more than half a million people this year...
Russia's population the largest in Europe has been declining steadily since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, with increased poverty, alcoholism, emigration and degradation of the health care system blamed for reducing birth rates and life expectancy.
Demographers predicted that Russia's population will fall to 100 million by 2050, and could even drop to 80 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
What was that book from seventies "Population Explosion" -- yeah, right.
However, it could be repopulated by Chechens if Putin doesn't get his act together.
Wow. Incredible.
Gloria Stienem is in extasy.
Haven't read this yet but the title compelled me to say:
I am not surprised. All their women are finding husbands anywhere but Russia. Leaving - running off - splitting the scene for what they believe will be better lives. People forget that when the women leave, all the children they will have are gone too. Plays hell with the population numbers. :)
Of course, nearly 80 years of mostly unrestricted abortion had nothing to do with their population decline.
China is cheering at such good news. One day China will pull a Mexico on Russia.
They mention reduced life expectancy but do not give stats. Anyone have them for Russia?
Russia also has one of the highest rates of abortion. It is the most popular form of birth control.
too bad China cant catch this.....
And what is it that is fueling the population explosion in some other world countries such as mexico?
Amazing what 74 years of communism will do for your national psychology.
China has a huge surplus of men and they are looking for some place to send them. Also a large slice of Siberia actually belongs to China.
Russia has no WTO brokered "free trade" agreements. All they have to do is sign up, and the third world will begin to pour in, using the GATTs Mode 4 rule "free movement of persons", to get in.
That rule, and "free trade" are precisely the reason we have unchallenged illegal immigration in this country.
OECD data from last year had male life expectancy hovering at less than 56 years.
I remember that it was already shrinking. Communists states were the first to push systematic distribution of birth control devises and to authorize abortions. One reason for the rapid decrease in the population of Germany was the annexation of the former DDR, where the policy was abortion on demand. Of course, consumerism has also contributed. Over all a prfound pessimism dominates the modern world view. Children are regarded as threats.
There was another thread on the Rusisan demographic implosion just the other day, a Mark Steyn article. One of the points mentioned: 70% of Russian women have had at least one abortion.
Duh, does it start with an 'M'???
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