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Russia’s Working Population Dies Out
Russia’s non-working population will exceed the number of working-age citizens by 15 million people in 10 years, said Vladimir Iontsev, head of the Moscow State University’s demography and population department, on Friday during the round table devoted to Moscow’s development strategy up to 2025.
Beginning from 2007, Russia’s (and Moscow’s) employable population will become reducing, Iontsev said.
Moreover, the capital, as well as other regions of Russia, will suffer the “degradation of population’s quality”, he said, pointing out that a considerable part of children under age 14 are beer alcoholics. Thus, they will be unable to improve Russia’s demographics in future.
Statistics shows that Russia’s population has been decreasing steadily during the last 20 years. Thus, Russia’s permanent population reduced due to natural reasons by 380,400 people since early 2006, making up 142.4 million people as of August 1, 2006. Russia’s economically active population is 74.3 million people, or nearly 52 percent of the country’s total number of people. The Ministry of Regional Development estimated that Russia’s population will reduce by one third in 40-50 years, if the demographic situation is not improved.
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