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Russia sees historic population drop spurring demographic crisis amid war in Ukraine
Fox News ^ | April 18, 2023 | Caitlin McFall

Posted on 04/23/2023 6:42:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Russia is in the midst of a historic population decline as it continues to grapple with low birth rates, high emigration, staggering health statistics and a deadly war in Ukraine. The growing crisis has been described by some as a "silent war" against its own human capital.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has listed Russia’s declining population as a matter of national security, but his recent war in Ukraine has not only led to hundreds of thousands of additional deaths among fighting-age men but has pushed a mass exodus among Russia's younger populations.

Western defense officials have estimated that as many as 250,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine, and some reporting has suggested that up to 1 million people have fled Russia since the war began – particularly following Putin’s conscription order in September 2022.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: declining; demographics; failedinvasion; lousyleader; putinslegacy; russia
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1 posted on 04/23/2023 6:42:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I do not think that the Ukraine war is too popular in Russia.


2 posted on 04/23/2023 6:45:24 PM PDT by Parley Baer (WI)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is 250k correct or not?


3 posted on 04/23/2023 6:45:35 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: MinorityRepublican

Name a white country not in serious demographic decline...


4 posted on 04/23/2023 6:49:55 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“hundreds of thousands of additional deaths among fighting-age men”

That is some strong copium/hopium, Fox News. Just how active has The Ghost of Keev been? Did she get rebooted or something?


5 posted on 04/23/2023 6:54:21 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Russia has less population than Bangladesh.

I don’t see how they can keep up this war based on their population and size of their economy.


6 posted on 04/23/2023 6:57:24 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: Paladin2

The classified US docs that the young USAF Airman released in chats indicated numbers in the 50k range IIRC. Or at least something substantially less than 250k.

The only thing we are sure of, is that in war, the first casualty is the truth.


7 posted on 04/23/2023 6:58:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: cdcdawg

Russia has AAAA problems:

* Aging population
* AIDS ridden
* Abortion rampant
* Alcoholism everywhere

Any one of those could bring a society to its knees. Russia must solve all four to survive.


8 posted on 04/23/2023 6:58:14 PM PDT by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: Renfrew

Sounds like a familiar set of problems. Are they also doing child trannies and fentanyl? If so, it should be a race for solutions.


9 posted on 04/23/2023 7:01:03 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: MinorityRepublican
According to the latest data compiled by Statista, the number of abortions recorded in Russia reached over 2 million in 2000 and dropped to over 550,000 in 2020. The abortion rate has been steadily decreasing since 2020, although it remains high overall. - https://www.newsweek.com/abortion-legal-russia-how-us-compares-other-nations-1702904
In 2013 1 million abortions were performed, 28 abortions per 1000 women aged 15–49.[40] In 2021 the number had reached approx. 400k, decreasing by a factor of 10 since 1990, with the rate per 1000 women aged 15–49 dropping to 12.[36] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Russia#Statistics

Then there is contraceptive use:

httpswww.un.orgdevelopmentdesapdsiteswww.un.org.development.desa.pdfilesfilesdocuments2020Janun_2019_contraceptiveusebymethod_databooklet.pdf
https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/files/documents/2020/Jan/un_2019_contraceptiveusebymethod_databooklet.pdf

The pill is popular in Western Europe, Australia, several countries in Africa, and the southern part of South America. Male condoms are the top method in Russia, much of Eastern Europe, and some countries in Africa, among others. Injectables are the top choice in parts of Africa

10 posted on 04/23/2023 7:04:39 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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It wouldn’t be the first time. Russia lost millions in WWI, more millions in the Red/White civil war, more millions in the 1930s purges, and more millions in WWII—and no rise in population during the postwar era under Stalin & Khrushchev. What is amazing is that the population is so low, but that it is as high as it is.


11 posted on 04/23/2023 7:05:00 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What a slop Putler has been for his Russia & probably too naive to see it.


12 posted on 04/23/2023 7:05:10 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: 2banana
Name a white country not in serious demographic decline...

Ireland's fertility rate has fallen off a cliff, but it's still the leader in the West at 1.65 children per woman in 2022, well short of the 2.1 replacement rate.

13 posted on 04/23/2023 7:10:40 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Paladin2

It is a good thing that the 250,000 dead misstatement is about Russians, because if Fox accidentally said that 250,000 Ukrainians had been killed, then the pro-Russia posters would be stating it as fact for months to come.


14 posted on 04/23/2023 7:10:44 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: existentially_kuffer
What a slop Putler has been for his Russia

of course, and that's the definition of a "lousy leader", someone who drags his country down, thru selfishness and/or stupidity

and yet, there's still no shortage of apologists for this stupid gangster here on FR every day ...


15 posted on 04/23/2023 7:16:02 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: 2banana

Japan and China decided to emulate the West.

In the next few years India will overtake China in population and it’s on the way to becoming #3 in GDP.


16 posted on 04/23/2023 7:28:59 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: MinorityRepublican
The ongoing phenomenon of reproduction rates falling below the replacement rate is happening in Japan, Western Europe, China and in the US - if not for immigration, our population would be falling. It seems to correlate with prosperity - as societies become wealthier, people have smaller numbers of children.

But I don't know if that's what's going on in Russia - seems more like a case of national emotional depression.
17 posted on 04/23/2023 7:45:44 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: MinorityRepublican

I mentioned on another thread that my wife’s relatives in Philippines are seeing an influx of Russian (mostly young) families.


18 posted on 04/23/2023 7:51:57 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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But I don't know if that's what's going on in Russia - seems more like a case of national emotional depression.

Russia is a nation of serfs. World Wars. Revolution. Communism. They haven't recovered from all of that.

19 posted on 04/23/2023 7:53:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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I wonder exactly when China will invade Russia.


20 posted on 04/23/2023 7:59:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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