Zubarevich: Russia lost almost a million people in a year
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Last year, Russia lost about 750-780 thousand people, economist, professor at Moscow State University Natalia Zubarevich has calculated.
She noted that such an incidence of the population is not compensated by the circulation of flows in the country, which in 2021 amounted to about 250 thousand people.
According to Zubarevich, the reason for such a demographic failure is that “the echo of the socio-demographic catastrophe of the Second World War” has still been encountered in Russia. Now the “generation of the grandchildren of the war”, which was affected by the crisis of the 90s, is participating in an active economic life. This generation is rather small and is not expected to give birth to many children.
“The result is that by 2030 there will be 6.5 million people of young working age (Rosstat is between 20 and 40 years old),” she explained.
At the same time, “the presence of older able-bodied ages” will increase – workers of pre-retirement age, but there will be difficulties with entering the labor market of young people, the specialist predicts.
In particular, the issue of the number of jobs for the employment of young people is being decided on the basis of the economic situation.