Analysis on Russian Demographic Trends

attention. Moreover, a great deal of debate has developed on the factors of de-population in Russia. It is common knowledge that declining birth rates have long been a subject of debate in many countries, and falling birth rates have also been viewed as a serious issue in the former communist countries since the early 1990s, when they began their transition to capitalism, to the 21st century. At the same time, what is unique about Russia and other transitional economies compared with developed nations is that the problem they have faced has been their high mortality rates. Their infant mortality rate, which had been declining since World War II, stopped falling in the 1970s. Moreover, mean life expectancy at birth increased much more slowly during the 1960s, and then actually began to decline. Factors affecting on low fertility and those on high mortality in Russia has been discussed for a long time: the questions, however, remain unsolved