Russia has moved to the classification of the main demographic statistics after a significant collapse in the birth rate, which has decreased to levels that have not been seen since the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, according to Russian pioneer.
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Why do it matter
For decades, Russia was suffering The continuous invasion of Ukraine– With high injuries and men It escapes from the country To avoid recruitment to fight.
Expectations are estimated that the population of Russia will decrease to about 132 million in the next two decades. the United Nations I expected that in the worst scenario, by the beginning of next century, the population of Russia It can almost half To 83 million.
What do you know
The agency’s demography, who previously worked with the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (ROSSTAT), said the agency recently stopped publishing detailed demographic data.
Raksha said that in his monthly report published on May 16, Rosstat deleted birth and death numbers for a period of newer reports, as well as monthly data on marriages and divorce.
Among the five demographic tables previously published Rossatat, only one remained in the latest report. He said that he provided data on births, deaths, marriage and divorce only as a total cumulative since the beginning of the year.
“In fact, since March 2025, there have been no demographic statistics available to the audience in Russia,” Karakha wrote.
“The level of demographic panic within the government has reached epic dimensions.”
In March, Raksha said that Russia may see its lowest birth rates since the late eighteenth century. The births fell 6 to 7 percent in February and reached 3 to 4 percent in March.
In the first quarter of 2025, between 293,000 and 294,000 births in Russia – by 2.4 percent for the first quarter of last year.
Raksha wrote on Telegram: “March 2025 is likely to record the lowest number of births on the territory of the Russian Federation today from the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century,” Raksha wrote on Telegram.
Demographic said that the average number of children for each woman has been almost as it is in the first quarter, as it decreased from 1.432 to 1.431.
The Russian authorities are restricting the access to miscarriage and birth control, and pregnant women have offered batches in an attempt to encourage residents to have children. In 2023, Valerie Celesniev, a member of the Russian state always, He suggested launching women Dragicon charges of prisons so that they can get pregnant.
Last year, the Secretary of Kermlin, the journalist Dmitry Peskov He said that reviving the birth rate in the country was one of the “priorities of Russia.” The situation called “catastrophic”.
What people say
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in July: “We live in the largest country in the world. Our numbers decrease every year. This can only be dealt with by increasing the average birth rate.”
What happens after that
In addition to classifying population data, Russia plans to The “child’s ideology” prohibited. On September 1, Roskomnadzor, a Russian communications organizer, was set to implement something that could affect media such as game of thronesand Sex and city and Harry Potter privilege.
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