Actually, Russia's Population Isn't Shrinking

Japan's The Diplomat ^ | May 01, 2014 | Ankit Panda

[MinorityRepublican]

Russia has its problems, but they don’t include a negative population growth rate — contrary to common wisdom. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, birth rates among native Russians tanked and death rates began slowly climbing. Around 1992, deaths in Russia exceeded births.

Analysts of Russian affairs have ever since taken it for granted that Russia faces a demographic crisis that will slowly but surely thrust the country into a perilous state of affairs where its economy shrinks as population declines (Western sanctions over Crimea are a drop in the bucket in this picture).

The only problem with this hypothesis is that, while it was true for a majority of the 1990s and the early 2000s, the most recent data suggest that the trend has started reversing and Russia is headed towards positive population growth, with more births than deaths.

[RightFighter]

She loves it. Loves Putin. Most Russians do.

[1010RD]

She sounds like an Obama voter. No offense.

[cookcounty]

An even more egregious “common knowledge” falsehood is the cooked numbers the PLO uses to push the idea that demographics are on their side, so Israel should do business now with the Jew-haters or things will get worse.

The fact is, Israel's population is growing faster than the “Arab territories” and the baseline the Palestinians are working from is barely half of what is claimed.

Read Caroline Glick’s “Israel: the One State Solution.”

[cookcounty]

"Russia’s population may be growing, but the Russian population is not growing. Muslims in Russia are increasing in number."

Yes, but for now, their increase is (temporarily) overshadowed by millions of ethnic Russians migrating from Central Asian countries (former Soviet Republics Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc.) back to to Mother Russia.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Heim ins Reich?