Russia has moved to classify key demographic statistics following a dramatic collapse in its birth rate, which has plunged to levels not seen since the late 18th or early 19th century, according to a leading Russian demographer.
For decades, Russia has been experiencing a plunging birth rate and population decline, which appears to have worsened amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine—with high casualty rates and men fleeing the country to avoid being conscripted to fight.
Projections estimate that Russia’s population will fall to about 132 million in the next two decades. The United Nations has predicted that in a worst-case scenario, by the start of the next century, Russia’s population could almost halve to 83 million.
Population will fall to about 132 million in the next two decades
Which means that it already is that low. If you don’t count the parts of Ukraine that Russia thinks it owns and the hundreds of thousands of young people who fled the country earlier in the war.
it was 144mil a couple years ago.
2-3 millions are dead or have fled for what I know.
But a birthrate at 1.5? That’s bad news, 0.6 lower than the replacement level (2.1) so every new generation will be 30% smaller!
Military losses are not deaths. Deaths are only a fraction of losses.
…Wow.
So what’s the tankie angle to this? From that perspective, the war is objectively awful for Russia, even if all the stated war goals are true.
Tf does tankie even mean at this point? As a communist, I’m not on the side of any state, I’m on the side of the people dying needlessly in both countries. Anyone who identifies themselves as a communist and has more than 2 brain cells should know that this isn’t a football match where you root for your favorite team. Aside from the fact that russia isn’t the USSR anymore anyway, it’s just another capitalist country. Both governments suck but the Ukrainian one wasn’t at fault for this war at all.
