Russia’s Birth Rate Plunges to 200-Year Low
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/russias-birth-rate-plunges-to-200-year-low-a88709
Russia’s Birth Rate Plunges to 200-Year Low
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/russias-birth-rate-plunges-to-200-year-low-a88709
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According to data released by the Russian state statistics agency Rosstat, 195,400 children were born in Russia during January and February 2025. This represents a 3% drop compared to the same period in 2024. The decline was even steeper in the month of February, with births falling 7.6% year-over-year to 90,500 = 7,400 fewer than in the same month last year.
According to demographer Alexei Raksha, the first quarter of 2025 likely saw the lowest number of births since the early 1800s, with February marking the lowest monthly figure in over 200 years. According to preliminary registry office data estimates, 95,000 to 96,000 children were born in March, bringing the total for the first quarter to around 293,000-294,000.
Huh, weird. Why aren’t more Russian women trying to make families to grow and send into a meat grinder? It would probably help if their husbands were back at home, or still had legs and faces.
Impossible,
Be country with
1. Best geological location in warming climate for the future
2. Have largest resources when combined
3. Enough land to make at least 20x more population
And just, invade other countries without a reason and instead of creating a crazy spiral for population and economy boom in a whole country give this money to some oligarchs which will send this money outside anyway… And pay for sabotage e.t.c.
It’s impossible how dumb russia is
Quite soon they will either outright lie about the stats (if they aren’t doing so already and probably are) or they’ll stop publishing them.
[China stopped publishing data about youth unemployment ](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-stop-releasing-youth-jobless-rate-data-aug-says-stats-bureau-2023-08-15/)when it got too embarrassing, and even then the ‘official’ figures were likely half of the real values.
They started again with ‘[new methods](https://apnews.com/article/china-youth-unemployment-slowdown-321cd96377ee066915fc39232b9477c3)’ that exclude people like students in order to make the figure look smaller but still likely a deliberate undercounting.
Low birth rates during war and baby booms after aren’t exactly groundbreaking news—just ask the boomers
Duh, that’s what happens when you have over a century of war and then on top of it murder your own population out of existence. Good job Russia. Good job.
So this is even worse than it sounds if you consider that human gestation takes on average 9 months.
That means that 9 months ago there was an overt effort to stop making babies!
If the war has continued to affect this, each upcoming month is going to get progressively WORSE!
How about the death rate? 50 year all time high? Russia is winning hard!