Key Points and Summary - War deaths, mass emigration, and a collapsing birth rate are converging into a historic Russian demographic shock. -Casualties concentrated among 30–39-year-old men, plus the ...

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 to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children attend a school ceremony in St. Petersburg. (Irina Motina—Xinhua/Getty Images) The Russian population is shrinking at an ...

In the next 50 years, Russia's population will decline by 25%, according to demographic forecasts. The main reason is the war, which has already cost Russia more than a million citizens, according to ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a federal law suspending part of the All-Russian Population Census. According to some sources, this measure is intended to hide Russian society from the ...