That population pyramid above is from 2020, before Russia invaded Ukraine. If Russia had had as many babies in the 1990s that it had in the 1980s, there would be about 4 million more Russian men ...

The continuing decline of the Russian population since 1991 is becoming an issue in the run-up to protracted fighting in Ukraine. In July, the number of births fell back to 1945 levels.

Freshly married to a policeman, office manager Angelina Alexeyeva has been motivated by President Vladimir Putin's plea for ...

The shape of "Russia's population pyramid" means "the birthrate is almost destined to decline," Brent Peabody wrote at Foreign Policy in January. Putin has said he's haunted by that fact, ...

In his recent state of the nation address, President Vladimir Putin said the most urgent problem facing Russia is its demographic crisis. The country's population is declining by at least 700,000 ...

Russia has moved to classify key demographic statistics following a dramatic collapse in its birth rate, which has plunged to levels not seen since the late 18th or early 19th century, according ...

Russia is in the midst of a historic population decline as it continues to grapple with infertility, high emigration, poor health statistics and the deadly war in Ukraine in what some have called ...

Russia is looking to grow the size of its armed forces to 1.5 million by the end of 2026. According to the Russian population census of 2020–2021, the number of men 18–26 years old in Russia ...

Russia's economy has a dire demographic problem on its hands, and the nation could see its population slashed in half by the end of the century, an Atlantic Council report says.

According to the authoritative statistical agency Rosstat, Russia had a population of 146,447,424 (including annexed Crimea) on January 1 – less than in 1999. Restrictive recommendations.