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Russia’s population undergoes largest ever peacetime decline, analysis shows
The Guardian ^ | 10/13/2021 | Pjotr Sauer

Posted on 12/07/2021 6:54:04 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas

Russia’s natural population has undergone its largest peacetime decline in recorded history over the last 12 months, according to an analysis of official government statistics made by a prominent independent demographer, as the country battles a deadly fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The natural population, a number calculated from registered deaths and births, excluding the impact of migration, declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021, the demographer Alexei Raksha has calculated.

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At least one positive from the pandemic, Russia's population declined.

"Russia’s total population of about 145 million is lower than it was when Vladimir Putin first came to power in 2000."

F Russia!

1 posted on 12/07/2021 6:54:04 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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“At least one positive from the pandemic, Russia’s population declined.”

Russia’s Christian population will be replaced with Muslims. They will be the most heavily armed Muslim nation. The population decline will be exponential when the Muslims start converting or killing the remaining Russians.


2 posted on 12/07/2021 7:03:16 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud?)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

They better get hopping.


3 posted on 12/07/2021 7:04:35 AM PST by BusterDog
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“Russia’s Christian population will be replaced with Muslims.”

I hate Christian Russians and Muslim Russians.


4 posted on 12/07/2021 7:11:29 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Localization, not Globalization)
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Don’t they have a very high abortion rate there? Nothing like killing off the future of your nation.


5 posted on 12/07/2021 7:12:33 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: SpeedyInTexas

It’s pretty hard to beat the census of 1937.


6 posted on 12/07/2021 7:18:28 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: BusterDog

They can pick up an extra 40,000,000 in a couple weeks by invading Ukraine.


7 posted on 12/07/2021 7:19:42 AM PST by BushCountry (Fun Fact: Goods made in America do not get stuck on cargo ships.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Seventy years under oppressive communism, and that was succeeded by a kleptocratic autocracy. I can understand why your average Russian couple doesn’t want children. And all that is exclusive of the weather!


8 posted on 12/07/2021 7:22:57 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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“They can pick up an extra 40,000,000 in a couple weeks by invading Ukraine.”

*****

Not a bad idea.

https://www.bestkievguide.com/why-on-earth-ukrainian-women-are-so-beautiful/


9 posted on 12/07/2021 7:24:31 AM PST by BusterDog
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To: SpeedyInTexas

You hate Christians? How sweet.


10 posted on 12/07/2021 7:26:29 AM PST by CatHerd
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They can pick up an extra 40,000,000 in a couple weeks by invading Ukraine.

Over a million Ukraine residents have already fled to Russia since the puppet regime in Kiev took over.

11 posted on 12/07/2021 7:26:59 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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Well it would be pretty tough to match their war time population decline!


12 posted on 12/07/2021 7:27:31 AM PST by walkingdead (We are sacrificing American youth's future on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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The abortion rate has sharply declined since the 1990s:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034529/russia-total-number-of-abortions/

According to the posted article:


“It’s pretty simple, the deaths caused by Covid-19 are the biggest reason for the decline witnessed. Most other factors have stayed the same,” said Raksha, a demographic forecaster who left Russia’s state agency Rosstat last year after criticising the information centre’s coronavirus figures.

He pointed out that birth rates had not decreased over the last year, which indicated the decline was due to Russia’s increased death rate.



13 posted on 12/07/2021 7:31:49 AM PST by CatHerd (When someone asked him what avarice was, Abba Isaiah replied,"Not to believe that God cares for you")
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Alas, Mother Russia is still dying.

Vlad’s job was to save mother Russia, cure her ills, bring her back to health.

The problem is that Mother Russia is still fading. She just lacks the will to live


14 posted on 12/07/2021 7:34:13 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Free Republic has gone to hell is a Covid handbasket)
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“Not a bad idea.”

So, I guess you’re saying beautiful Ukraine women might equal more baby making?


15 posted on 12/07/2021 7:41:25 AM PST by BushCountry (Fun Fact: Goods made in America do not get stuck on cargo ships.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I have Soviet medals they’d give to mothers “mother heroes”. If they had 10 they’d get a fancy gold star one too. Maybe they should try that again?


16 posted on 12/07/2021 7:42:22 AM PST by Houserino
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More than four million, of them million are citizens now.

The article is misleading in the sense that before covid there has been about 12 million labor migrants in Russia. Some went home and got stuck due to covid restrictions.


17 posted on 12/07/2021 7:42:49 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I’m always amazed at the Russia lovers on FR.

If Russia invades Ukraine, we can bleed the Russian military and economy. Neighboring countries, Poland in particular, can provide safe haven for Ukrainian guerillas. The CIA can set up training camps in the neighboring countries. Stingers can bring those Russian planes down just as they did in Afghanistan.

Russia won’t have 40 million new citizens. It will have 40 million combatants.


18 posted on 12/07/2021 7:43:15 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Localization, not Globalization)
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Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

Kapitan Kolesnikov by DDT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaLk-LqR0pc


19 posted on 12/07/2021 7:43:54 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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The greatest disaster to ever befall Russia and the West for that matter (perhaps besides the concept of Communism) is the PILL!

When I look at my own family, the older generations usually had 4-6-9 kids. They were poor, but you know those kids grew up and had so much character and independence. Many joined the military and fought in wars, moved away and began families. Smaller families now with higher material wealth and quieter self absorbed children.

Quiet kids don’t become the type of adults who go out and challenge crime in the streets, they don’t challenge growing Muslim populations. Our grandparents were born with 6 competing siblings and learned to struggle for everything.

I know, I am an only child. (which is why I had 3 kids, 7 grandkids and regret not having 4-5 kids).


20 posted on 12/07/2021 7:45:39 AM PST by Phoenix8
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