The natural decline in the population of the Russian Federation in January-August grew by 72%

Natural population decline (excess of the number of deaths over the number of births) in Russia in January-August 2021 increased by 71.6% compared to January-August 2020.

How informs Rosstat, the natural decline for this period amounted to 595.3 thousand people against 346.9 thousand people a year earlier. At the same time, the number of births in January-August 2021 decreased by 1.1% – to 928,184 children from 938,295 in January-August 2020.

The number of deaths in the Russian Federation in January-August 2021 increased by 18.5% – to 1,523,646 people from 1,285,199 people in January-August 2020. 250 thousand people have died since the beginning of the year from COVID-19. At the same time, over the entire past year, 163.3 thousand residents of Russia died from coronavirus.

The government calculated that for the entire 2021 natural loss will be 522 thousand. This forecast is contained in the September version of the unified plan for achieving national development goals, writes RBC.

The natural population decline in the Russian Federation in 2020 more than doubled – up to 688.7 thousand people from 316.2 thousand people in 2019. This indicator became the maximum since 2005 – then the natural population decline amounted to 846.6 thousand people.

According to Rosstat, the population of Russia in 2020 decreased by more than 0.5 million people (due to positive migration, the population decreased slightly less than the natural decline rate), to 146.17 million.

According to Rosstat, the resident population of the Russian Federation as of August 1, 2021 amounted to 145.8 million people.