Russia’s ‘weird’ campaign to boost its birth rate

The country’s fertility rate was 1.4 births per woman in 2023, according to the most recent UN statistics. That’s well below the 2.1 replacement rate and 20% lower than in 2015. And since then, an ...
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Russia’s population is shrinking rapidly. Putin is trying to put a stop to that

For a quarter of a century, Russian president Vladimir Putin has grappled with his country’s declining and ageing population. The demographic crisis pre-dates his ascent to power, with the nation ...
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Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it

For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia's shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged ...