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Since we were talking in another thread how Mitrofanov and his LDPR cronies are blaming lesbians for the drop of Russia's birth rate, here's the lastest numbers published last week (source EU Stats, numbers in thousands).
Russia
Population on 01-01-2005: 143 474.0
Natural change: -846.6
Migration: +125.9
Population on 01-01-2006: 142 753.3 (-720.7)
Lesbians or no lesbians, Russia continues to lose around 750,000 people every year (the population was 150 million in 2000).
The situation is even worse in Ukraine actually as the country is losing annually half as much as Russia for a population 3 times smaller.
Ukraine
Population on 01-01-2005: 47 100.5
Natural change: -355.9
Migration: +4.6
Population on 01-01-2006: 46 749.2 (-351.3)
The population was 50 million in 2000.
Both Russia and Ukraine have a birth rate below 1.3, low immigration, and low life expectancy, so their populations will continue to decline steeply for several decades.
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