Looking forward to when this shithole government finally collapses and Russians are freed. The demographic time bomb here will hopefully accelerate the process.
libertarianinus on
My friend from Russia said men die very early because of all the vodka they drink. 25 just died the other day from bad ethanol laced vodka. During the fall of communist USSR, they would pay them with vodka. It helped dull their sad, bleak lives, she said.
clintbriangrey on
The Soviet Union collapsed 34 years ago. It’s striking that that drastic economic change made people fearful enough to not have children, which is reflected almost perfectly in their population pyramid.
adamosity1 on
Severe drinking, heavy smoking, and a lifetime of misery will do that.
dayburner on
Anyone have any input on why there is a surplus of male youths?
HotSauceMakesITbetta on
They will need that surplus of young men. Maybe they don’t decide to become fertilizer in another country.
gordonjames62 on
It is hard to figure out exactly what this “population pyramid” conveys…
* The female surplus over age 55 or 60 suggests that men (born between 1950-1980) die at a young age or have left the country.
* The wide span around age 40 suggests that there was either a baby boom around 1980, or that the ages below that (1990-2015) have either died (war?) or fled the country to avoid war.
* The narrow base suggests that people are choosing birth control over having babies since 2015.
#Can anyone help me understand what other factors are at play here?
>The population pyramid of Russia is all sorts of messed up. It is almost entirely unique due to the number of people killed during World War II. Other population pyramids look like, well, pyramids. Growing populations have more youth at the bottom than aging people at the top. Stable populations look like pillars. Russia’s pyramid looks like a choppy wave. That is because every thirty years, the generation connected to World War II produces far fewer people than the generations around them. That is because there were so many young men and women killed during the war that there were far fewer people to marry and have children after it was over.
>The generation before the World War II generation’s children were too old to be affected, and so their children endured in greater numbers. This is why there is a dip that you can continue to see to this day in their pyramid.
calguy1955 on
I thought there would be a surplus of younger women due to the war.
White_Marble_1864 on
They are really working to combat that male surplus I heard.
Roquet_ on
Female surplus starting around 30 yo is expected, but why is there all male surplus below it?
eaglessoar on
15 year old males staring down the cliff
critsalot on
you can see putins policies making russias grow about a decade ago but then his recent failures have been fucking the economy and the repoduction rates
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Looking forward to when this shithole government finally collapses and Russians are freed. The demographic time bomb here will hopefully accelerate the process.
My friend from Russia said men die very early because of all the vodka they drink. 25 just died the other day from bad ethanol laced vodka. During the fall of communist USSR, they would pay them with vodka. It helped dull their sad, bleak lives, she said.
The Soviet Union collapsed 34 years ago. It’s striking that that drastic economic change made people fearful enough to not have children, which is reflected almost perfectly in their population pyramid.
Severe drinking, heavy smoking, and a lifetime of misery will do that.
Anyone have any input on why there is a surplus of male youths?
They will need that surplus of young men. Maybe they don’t decide to become fertilizer in another country.
It is hard to figure out exactly what this “population pyramid” conveys…
* The female surplus over age 55 or 60 suggests that men (born between 1950-1980) die at a young age or have left the country.
* The wide span around age 40 suggests that there was either a baby boom around 1980, or that the ages below that (1990-2015) have either died (war?) or fled the country to avoid war.
* The narrow base suggests that people are choosing birth control over having babies since 2015.
#Can anyone help me understand what other factors are at play here?
what happened 80ish years ago… oh yeah.
Russia has an interesting [population pyramid](https://grantpiperwriting.medium.com/wwii-killed-so-many-russians-you-can-still-see-it-in-their-population-pyramid-a68461abb5be) .
>The population pyramid of Russia is all sorts of messed up. It is almost entirely unique due to the number of people killed during World War II. Other population pyramids look like, well, pyramids. Growing populations have more youth at the bottom than aging people at the top. Stable populations look like pillars. Russia’s pyramid looks like a choppy wave. That is because every thirty years, the generation connected to World War II produces far fewer people than the generations around them. That is because there were so many young men and women killed during the war that there were far fewer people to marry and have children after it was over.
>The generation before the World War II generation’s children were too old to be affected, and so their children endured in greater numbers. This is why there is a dip that you can continue to see to this day in their pyramid.
I thought there would be a surplus of younger women due to the war.
They are really working to combat that male surplus I heard.
Female surplus starting around 30 yo is expected, but why is there all male surplus below it?
15 year old males staring down the cliff
you can see putins policies making russias grow about a decade ago but then his recent failures have been fucking the economy and the repoduction rates