Russia lost more than 113,000 inhabitants in January
Russia has lost more than 5 million inhabitants since 1991. Current poverty only worsens the situation, as does the Covid (illustrative image).
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Russia is losing more and more inhabitants.
It lost more than 113,000 last January, a figure twice as high as in January 2020. The reason is well known to the authorities who are facing an insolvent demographic problem since the fall of the USSR.
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With our correspondent in Moscow,
Paul Gogo
The data from the Russian statistics agency Rosstat are eagerly awaited every month by the authorities.
The demographic problem that the country is experiencing is recurrent, and Vladimir Putin has been confronted with it since coming to power in 2000.
Last January, Russia lost more than 113,000 inhabitants against more than 45,000 in January 2020. A particularly high figure at the start of the year which illustrates a Russian reality.
The country is suffering from a huge drop in the birth rate that occurred during the fall of the USSR.
Russia has lost more than 5 million inhabitants since 1991. Current poverty only worsens the situation, as does
the Covid.
28,500 people died from the virus in January in Russia.
Since coming to power, the Russian president has nevertheless been stepping up initiatives to reverse the trend.
Its objective: to increase
the country's fertility rate
from 1.5 to 1.7 children per woman.
Its main weapon is a whole range of grants and financial aid intended for large families as well as for those who wish to have their first child.
Initiatives which have, for the moment, little effect on the birth rate of the country.
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