In 2024, births in Russia fell to 1.22 million — the lowest level since 1999 — while deaths increased by 3.3% annually, to ...

Russia also has relatively high mortality rates, with deaths exceeding births for several years now. Alcoholism and drugs are ...

Russia faces a significant worker shortage by 2030. Retirements and low birth rates are major factors. The Ukraine war has worsened the situation. The government is offering incentives to boost birth ...

“It [the birth rate] is now at a terribly low level—1.4 [births per woman]. This is comparable to European countries, Japan, and so on.” Russia has been tending toward a demographic crisis ...

Russia is paying schoolgirls to have babies in a bid to boost its plummeting birth rate, but experts say cash incentives ...

Russia’s dwindling birth rate has been one of Vladimir Putin’s main worries during his 25-year rule. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Rosstat, Russia's statistics agency, has not released data on deaths this year, according to an independent Russian outlet.

Russia recorded its lowest birth rate since 1999 in the first six months of this year, according to official data published on Monday, with births in June below 100,000, marking their first ...

Every part of that appears to be wrong. In reality, Thailand’s reported birth rate last year was 0.98, and preliminary 2025 ...

The country recorded its lowest birth rate in the past 25 years for the first six months of 2024, according to official data published in September. Births in Russia also declined for the first time ...