Aging of Russia

President Vladimir Putin's plan to overturn the stagnation was announced in 2017 in response to the downward trend.

However the plan only partially helped in their demographic crisis and was hindered by the Pandemic, despite showing signs of recovery.

[16] In March 2023, The Economist reported that "Over the past three years the country has lost around 2 million more people than it would ordinarily have done, as a result of war [in Ukraine], disease and exodus.

[20][17] In January 2024, the Russian statistics agency Rosstat predicted that Russia’s population could drop to 130 million by 2046.

[22] Many Russian politicians have called for the reinstating of the Childless tax in Russia that it used to have from the 1940s until the 1990s, due to declining birth rates.