The demographic situation in Russia is difficult, and the measures taken to improve it have not yet yielded results. TASS with reference to the official representative of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov.
According to Peskov, there is no “magic panacea” in this matter, so the improvement of the situation will not happen quickly. Note that the decline in the birth rate in Russia in February of this year was reported by the head of the department of health and self-preserving behavior of the Institute for Demographic Research of the Federal Scientific Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alla Ivanova.
The specialist noted that this happened due to the entry into the reproductive age of women born in the 1990s, when the country experienced a decline in statistics. According to Rosstat, the birth rate in the state has been slowing down since 2019.
That year it reached 8.1%, and for the first half of 2022, the numbers fell by 6.3%. Associate Professor at the Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics Vladimir Kozlov believes that the uncertainty of the situation with the coronavirus pandemic could have influenced this outcome of the situation.
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