The Demographic Situation and Problems of Family Policy

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The difficult and unstable situation facing most Russian families in the present complex sociopolitical situation has had a major effect on the demographic dynamics of the last few years, reinforcing unfavorable tendencies that first became apparent from the sixties through the eighties. These include wavelike fluctuations in the birth rate, a long-term consequence of the war (the number of births, which before the war had exceeded 3.5 million, was almost halved in wartime, which a quarter of a century later made for a low birth rate in the late sixties [1.8-1.9 million people in 1967-70] and again at a quarter-century interval, a low number of births in the nineties [1.4 million in 1993-95]); the aging of the population—that is, an increase in the proportion of the population above working age (from 11.8 percent in 1959 to 19.9 percent in 1994)—and a decline in the proportion of persons below working age (from 29.8 percent in 1959 to 23 percent in 1994); a drop in the birth rate and a transition from fam...

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