Russia is dying out at the rate of 3 thousand people a day | 12/31/21
Russia continues to accelerate in free fall into the demographic abyss.
At the end of November, 257.3 thousand deaths were recorded in the country, which is 17%, or 37 thousand more than in the same month a year earlier. reported on Thursday Rosstat.
The cumulative total for 11 months of 2021, the number of deaths reached 2.23 million (+348.8 thousand), and over the past year amounted to 2.47 million, rewriting the record for the entire period after World War II.
The relative mortality rate – 16.7 deaths per 1000 people of the population – exceeded the previous maximum of the post-Soviet period, set in 2003 (16.4).
The birth rate continued to decline, despite the national project “Demography” worth 4 trillion rubles and calls for having children, from officials all the way to the president.
For 11 months, according to Rosstat, 1.284 million children were born in the country – 21.5 thousand less than in the same period of 2020. The relative birth rate – 9.6 children per thousand of the population – has been the lowest since 2000.
For every person born in Russia, there were almost two deaths. As a result: in January-November, the natural population decline accelerated by another 1.6 times and reached 945.1 thousand people, and for the first time in the post-Soviet period it exceeded one million (1.059 million) accumulated over the past 12 months.
As a result of the excess of death rate over birth rate, the country lost 2.9 thousand people per day, 120 people per hour or two people per minute, it follows from statistics.
Every third death in November, according to Rosstat, was associated with Covid-19. 80,126 thousand deaths per month became a new record since the beginning of the pandemic, which is 220% higher than in November 2020.
In another 7.4 thousand deaths, the coronavirus was diagnosed, but was not named the cause of the main death. In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, Rosstat has counted 501.3 thousand victims of Covid-19 – 1.8 times more than the operational headquarters of the government gives in daily reports.
The forecast of the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation for 2022-24, which was prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development and on the basis of which the three-year budget was drawn up, provides for a further reduction in the country’s population.
In 2021, according to the calculations of the Ministry of Economic Development, the population of the Russian Federation will decrease from 146.5 to 145.9 million people, in 2022 to 145.4 million people, in 2023 to 145 million, and in 2024 to 144, 7 million people, the minimum since 2014, when the annexation of Crimea added 2.6 million people to the representatives of Russians.
The number of citizens over working age in the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development for four years is reduced by 2.4 million people – from 36.8 million last year to 34.4 million in 2024.