Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it
- Russia’s population has fallen from 147.6 million in 1990 — the year before the USSR collapsed — to 146.1 million this year
- Since the 2015 peak, the number of births has fallen annually, and deaths are now outpacing births
- “You’ve got a much-diminished pool of potential fathers in a diminished pool of potential mothers,” says analyst