Russia Sees Record Population Decline In 2021

Moscow Times: Russia Sees Record Population Decline As Excess Deaths Hit 1M  

Russia experienced its largest population decline in 2021 since the end of the Soviet Union. 

Russia recorded almost one million excess deaths between the start of the pandemic and the end of 2021, as the country also reported its sharpest annual fall in population since the end of the Soviet Union. 

Pushed down by record numbers of coronavirus fatalities and an already aging population, Russia's natural population, excluding the effects of migration, declined by more than one million people during 2021 alone, the Rosstat statistics agency reported Friday. 

It also said that more than 215,000 Russians died of all causes in December 2021 — 42% more than in the same month of 2019, before the outbreak of the coronavirus — and that some 662,000 people had succumbed to the disease since March 2020. 

That number is more than twice what has been reported by the government’s taskforce, which uses a different methodology and is reported daily by state media.  

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WNU Editor: Russia is not the only country experiencing excess deaths. Almost every country in the world is experiencing excess deaths .... Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries (Economist).  

Update: India is probably the worst hit country in the world .... India’s true Covid toll could be over 3 million: Study (Hindustan Times). The US is also experiencing shocking numbers .... As COVID-19 surges, deaths exceeded births in half of US states (WSWS).

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