The Results of Russia's Current Demographic Policy

Abstract

A survey of demographic trends in Russia, and the extent to which they can be influenced by governmental policies, shows that reducing mortality rates is more effective in stemming population decline than policies aimed at increasing birth rates.

Notes

English translation © 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text © 2014 “Narodonaselenie.” “Rezul'taty sovremennoi demograficheskoi politiki Rossii,” Narodonaselenie, 2014, no. 1, pp. 4–18. A publication of the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies of the Population (ISEPN), Russian Academy of Sciences.Leonid Leonidovich Rybakovskii is a doctor of economics and chief science associate at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences.Translated by Kim Braithwaite.

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Funding

The survey was carried out with financial support from the Russian Foundation for Humanities, Project No. 14-03-00420.