Russia is dying at a rate of 1.5 thousand people a day, this is the largest jump in mortality since the 1947 famine.

The spiral of demographic catastrophe continues to unwind in Russia, despite the end of the pandemic, which brought the country a record jump in mortality since the 1947 famine..

According to the results of 2022, the number of permanent population of the Russian Federation decreased by another 566 thousand people.

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As of January 1, according to statistics, 146.424 million people lived in Russia. A year earlier, it was 146.98 million - a figure that Rosstat increased by 1.3 million people according to the results of the 2021 census..

For the first time since the early 2000s, official statistics have recorded a decrease in the population for the fifth year in a row: in 2018, the population in the country decreased by 100 thousand, in 2019 - by 100 thousand, in 2020 - by 500 thousand, and in 2021.

Although the surge in covid mortality is a thing of the past, and the number of deaths decreased by 22%, the number of children born was 1.5 times lower than the number of deaths, and the relative birth rate - 9.8 children per 100,000 population - fell to a minimum in 20 years.

As a result: another 543 thousand people lost Russia as a result of natural decline, which over the past four years has exceeded 2.5 million people.

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The number of births of children from 1.3 million last year will drop to 1.

2 million, and in 2024 - to 1 million, which will be the absolute minimum in the country's modern history (since World War II), follows from Efremov's estimates.

According to the UN forecast, by 2050 the population of the Russian Federation will decrease to 133 million - the level of the RSFSR of the early 1970s (130 million), or the Russian Empire in 1897 (129 million).

Recall that since February 24, 2022, Russian killers have lost 128,420 personnel in Ukraine..