OREANDA-NEWS   The birth rate in Russia has decreased as a result of the entry into the reproductive age of women born in the 1990s, when there was a decline in statistics in the country. This was stated by Alla Ivanova, head of the Department of Health and Self-preservation Behavior of the Institute of Demographic Research of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the air of the radio station "Moscow Speaks".

Earlier, Rosstat revealed that over the year the population of Russia has decreased by more than 550 thousand people. As of January 1, 2023, there were 146,424,729 people living in the country.

Ivanova explained that the population decline in Russia began before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. "This is due to a drop in the number of births and an increase in the number of deaths. This all happened against the background of an increase in life expectancy and an increase in the intensity of births, that is, the number of children born to one woman," the demographer explained.