Posted on 07/15/2025 9:01:57 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Russia is staring down a long-term economic threat that could outlast both the war in Ukraine and Western sanctions: a deepening demographic crisis.
On Tuesday, Labor Minister Anton Kotyakov underscored the scale of the problem during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
"Today, according to our estimates, by 2030 we need to involve 10.9 million people in the economy," Kotyakov told Putin, according to a post from the Kremlin.
Kotyakov said the number is required to replace 10.1 million people who will reach retirement age, and 800,000 new jobs.
Kotyakov warned that if productivity growth falls short of the assumptions built into the current forecast, there could be "an additional shortage of personnel."
The remarks came during a Kremlin meeting focused on demographics and healthcare. Members of Putin's cabinet discussed efforts to boost birth rates, including financial incentives like cash payouts and tax breaks for large families.
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.
In 2024, births in Russia fell to 1.22 million — the lowest level since 1999 — while deaths increased by 3.3% to 1.82 million, according to official data. The country's population was about 146 million last year.
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But have you seen the waist size of Mexicans? Food is not abundant in Russian grocery stores for shop-lifting.
Of all the ugly slurs I have heard over the years, never heard the shoplifting one before. But then hating people doesn’t really accomplish anything anyway. Nothing good at least.
AI will take care of labor shortages.
I see shop lifting every day by people speaking Spanish at Walmart.
Let’s worry about the population crisis of the USA, where illegal third worlders are replacing our unconceived and aborted babies.
US Secretary Marco Rubio said July 10 that Russia lost 100,000 dead just in the last six months.
Anyone know what the slaughter and maiming rates of infants and children are in Russia compared to the rates here and in the UK and EU?
NO PROBLEM. OPEN borders to europeans who will soon be fleeing muslim hordes.
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