Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said reviving the nation's birth rate is one of Russia's "top priorities."

Russia has moved to classify key demographic statistics following a dramatic collapse in its birth rate, which has plunged to levels not seen since the late 18th or early 19th century, according to a leading Russian demographer.

For decades, Russia has been experiencing a plunging birth rate and population decline, which appears to have worsened amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine—with high casualty rates and men fleeing the country to avoid being conscripted to fight.

Projections estimate that Russia’s population will fall to about 132 million in the next two decades. The United Nations has predicted that in a worst-case scenario, by the start of the next century, Russia’s population could almost halve to 83 million.

      • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        9·
        7 months ago

        I hate to shit on your general point, but they absolutely do ask in this case.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        15·
        7 months ago

        Im 57, i tried to have a vasectomy at 18 and was refused here in Australia mutiple times over 2 years because “I would change mind” and I was told I would meet somone who would want to have kid with me and they’d be upset if i was unable to."

        I flew to Thailand in my late 20s and had it done at the end of a holiday there in a hospital in Bangkok, no pun intended.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
        111·
        7 months ago

        I’m a snipped man… there were a lot of questions.

        I don’t know who told you “no questions asked”, but that definitely doesn’t match my lived experience.

          • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
            10·
            7 months ago

            So I refute one specific point of your argument. Another commenter even says they were outright denied. And your sane and rational response is “well that doesn’t matter” and you downvote me even though I was adding to the topic/discussion that you brought up?

            Grow up dude.

            Unfortunately for your case, you’re still wrong. But that won’t change your mind regardless and I’m not interested in talking to someone who acts the way you are.

        • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
          6·
          7 months ago

          I was refused (tried a few tines from 18-20) and had it done overseas im my late 20s. Thay was decades ago though so it might have changed.

          Am Australian.

      • Alaik@lemmy.zipEnglish
        31·
        7 months ago

        It’s the false liability excuse. They think women will sue since it’s not as reversible. Really it’s management just justifying their jobs with bullshit policies.

        Start locking up management who try to dictate patient care for practicing medicine without a license, see how fast most things level out.

        That includes insurance groups, hospitals, and any other group who doesnt have an MD at the top level.