Russia's population crisis is so dire, it's staring down a labor shortage of 11 million people by 2030, a minister told Putin

Business Insider ^ | Jul 15, 2025 | Huileng Tan

[BenLurkin]

Send them our illegals.

[Williams]

one of the reasons he wants Ukraine.
Wonder how war casualties have affected the numbers.

[TexasGator]

“Kotyakov said the number is required to replace 10.1 million people who will reach retirement age,”

Put8n has depleted the state retirement fund to pay for his two week war.

No problem. He moved the retirement age to 65. The average male has a life expectancy of 64!

[MinorityRepublican]

one of the reasons he wants Ukraine.

Wonder how war casualties have affected the numbers.

He thought he was going to take Kyiv in three days.

[Enterprise]

I hear that North Korea has people to spare.

[Westbrook]

Yes, so it makes sense that they should send tens, even hundreds, of thousands of their strongest young men to die in a meat grinder war.
/sarc

[kiryandil]

“Russia is spending so much money and manpower on defense that it’s draining the rest of the economy” - Huileng Tan, January 2024

Just like Blow Jogs [Joe Blogs], Huileng has Russher clapsing every week.

[kiryandil]

IATG

[Daveinyork]

Nah. They’d expect welfare.

[kiryandil]

He thought he was going to take Kyiv in three days.

Milley Vanilli thought The Putin was going to take Kyiv in three days, when Milley wasn't selling out to Xi.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

It's the quality of your citizens which matters most. Illegal aliens, “migrants”, criminals, and mud people don't make for a coherent society.

[Wayne07]

“Putin has made population growth a national priority, calling it a matter of “ethnic survival” and encouraging women to have as many as eight children.”

Russia birth rate is down 1.4. So much for Christian paradise Putin’s Freeper team promised.

[dforest]

That makes no sense at all.

[Phoenix8]

And this war isn’t helping things for the Slav either.

[PGR88]

Sun Tzu: If you can’t win a real war, at least you can win a propaganda war on the interweb.

[VAFreedom]

i read that they planned to add 1 million indian workers.

i mean if they are sending all their white russian pruebreds to be killed at the front line, they need to replace the workers with brown people to pick potatoes.

at least the norks are helping out with some of that.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

And this war isn’t helping things for the Slav either.

There is no shortage of the Slav:

| Year | Slavic Population | European Population | Slavic Fraction |
| 1000 | ~7.3 million | ~40 million | ~18.3% |
| 2002 | ~260 million | ~742 million | ~35.0% |
| 2025 | ~360 million | ~751 million | ~47.9% |

[ansel12]

With their huge Muslim population it seems like they would be helping Russia grow in population.

[jerod]

Hmm... Looks like we now have a place to resettle those squatters from the Gaza strip.

HAMAS... Welcome to Russia.