Russia's birth rates have been falling for decades, and the war in Ukraine has made it worse.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging Russians to have more children. 
"Large families must become the norm," Putin said in a speech Tuesday. 
Russian birth rates are falling amid war in Ukraine and a deepening economic crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging women to have as many as eight children as the number of dead Russian soldiers continues to rise in his war with Ukraine, worsening the country’s population crisis.

Addressing the World Russian People’s Council in Moscow on Tuesday, Putin said the country must return to a time when large families were the norm.

“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, had seven, eight, or even more children,” Putin said.

  • Rouxibeau@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    10 months ago

    Let’s keep going until there’s a 1:39 male to female ratio. That’d be ideal. Not strange at all.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      Let’s keep going until there’s a 1:39 male to female ratio. That’d be ideal. Not strange at all.

      It’s not about the ratio, it’s about a total amount of bodies, regardless of gender, available to run/work the country, in the future generations.

      They already took a big hit in World War II, and they’re taking another hit now, and most nations taking two pop hits in a row don’t recover well.