Is Russia endengered by a demographic threat?

[Aziel]

Is Russia endangered by a demographic threat? It seems that soon non-Russian citizens will be the majority in Russia as the ethnic-Russian population shrinks slowly. Life expectancy is low (65), median age is 37 and population growth is -0.4% per year. To the 1st of June, 2008, the Russian population was 141,888,900, while in 1992 it was 148,300,000~. More people died in 2007 than born, thus creating a situation where the Russian population shrinks in 1 million per year. So, do you think that Russia is endangered by a demographic threat, leading it to a situation where it will become from a Slavic country to a Muslim-Turkish country?


Data is from the UN website and Wikipedia:
http://unstats.un.org/pop/dVariables/DRetrieval.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...ing_population

[attilavolciak07]

Interesting. Isn't America in a somewhat similar situation? :hmmm:

[Aziel]

Interesting. Isn't America in a somewhat similar situation? :hmmm:

No, because there is no such thing as "Ethnic American". Americans are a people that exist regardless of ethnicity, religion and race. You might refer to a research which claimed that at 2042 the "whites" (excluding the Hispanics) will not be the majority in America anymore.

[Big War Bird]

Interesting. Isn't America in a somewhat similar situation? :hmmm:

No, while our population is aging, it is also growing.

But yes the USA as well as most Western countries do have a serious demographic problem. Their social programs are dependant on my workers supporting a relatively few retirees. However, as the population gets older there are few workers to support more retirees.

[Surgeon]

Maybe China will take over Russia and we'll have SUPER CHINA stretching from Europe down to Asia. Imagine all the cheap Chinese goods

[s.rwitt]

Is Russia endengered by a demographic threat?

I sure hope so.

[Aziel]

Hmm.. why?

[s.rwitt]

Because it will hinder them in their quest to reestablish the Soviet Union.

[Sharrow]

To arrest this the Russians will have to do what no Russian Govt has ever really bothered to do: invest in the comfort and well being of It's people - butter rather then guns.

[Andrew87]

Good.....



Let's see how they'll handle separatist regions with muslim-turkish "peacekeepers" in them.

[Delvecchio1975]

i wish all countries would evolve like this - imagine a world with around 50 million people! lots of green around, plenty of space and water for everyone! flower power!

[Forve]

i wish all countries would evolve like this - imagine a world with around 50 million people! lots of green around, plenty of space and water for everyone! flower power!

even 50 000 000 will find a way to everything around

[Delvecchio1975]

even 50 000 000 will find a way to everything around

that is true, and this seriously hampers my flower power utopia. i guess we also need to dumb down so we can't invent anything that that explodes or burns.

No, while our population is aging, it is also growing.

But yes the USA as well as most Western countries do have a serious demographic problem. Their social programs are dependant on my workers supporting a relatively few retirees. However, as the population gets older there are few workers to support more retirees.

the simple but painful solution is retire at a later age. my parents were so lucky. my dad, a college professor, retired at 55!!!!

[Panzerbear]

1) yes it is
2) Russian govt is doing everything in its power to stop it, introducing all sorts of incentives for couples having more than one child.
3) last september, more first graders entered schools than ever before. we have some encouraging signs... but it is too early to tell that the demographic problem stopped.

[Aziel]

What does the Russian government do in order to solve the problem of HIV in Russia?

[Panzerbear]

What does the Russian government do in order to solve the problem of HIV in Russia?

we dont really have an HIV problem in Russia (or it is vastly overblown by Western media since mid 90s). we have ~20 million people checking themselves for HIV per year (having population of 143 million). I myself have been checked 3 times during my highschool years.

40,000+ are diagnosed with HIV and most of them are druggies and all sorts of social outcasts anyway.

The world will finally have peace when the last Russian dies from old age, and the Russian culture with him.

you would love that, wouldnt you?

[Norge]

you would love that, wouldnt you?

I hope I live to see the day.

Russia has been a blemish on the European continent for centuries. The Holocaust pales in comparison to the atrocities of the Russians.

[Pallantides]

I hope I live to see the day.

Russia has been a blemish on the European continent for centuries. The Holocaust pales in comparison to the atrocities of the Russians.

I have never met a Norwegian with such a hatred for Russians!

[FirstManOnTheMoon]

I have never met a Norwegian with such a hatred for Russians!

They're just jealous...

No one. Ever seen what Russian women become in 10 years? I'd rather be with a sack of Potatoes than with Russian women any day of the week.

Is that why so many of your countrymen come to Crimea looking for sex and brides?

(I think a sack of potatoes is as close as you'll get to a wife, Sultan)

[Aetius]

Awesome.

All hail the return of the Golden Horde. Asian-Turkic Muslims.


Outdated weapons perhaps.



Look! They actually have a claim to Abzahkia!