The population of Russia is predicted to drop by 352,500 people this year, and could be reduced by a total of 1.2 million come 2024.
The latest figures are a major revision of the 2020 dip of only 158,000 projected in August.
According to Moscow daily Izvestia, which obtained a government forecast, the reduction in Russian residents will be much more severe than previously thought.
The only time the country saw a larger drop was 2006, when the figures fell by 373,900.
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WNU Editor: No one wanted children in Russia in the 1990s. But it was not only the economic crisis that discouraged families from having children. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, followed by reports of increases in child birth defects and health problems, put a real fear in many families to not have children. Two of my cousins had kids during this time (1989 and 1991), and both had health and immune problems for the first years of their lives.
