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"We expect that the negative trend in natural population decline will begin to change in the years 2023-2024," she added.

According to Golikova, in the Pskov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver and Tula regions these figures were the highest - 7 people per 1 thousand inhabitants.

Earlier, Golikova said that the rate of decline in fertility in 2018 slowed down.