The 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.

According to 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 million 523 646 people from 1 million 285 199 people in January-August 2020.

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

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.

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EIC "Invest-Proekt" published a study of the profitability of Russians and found out that the state earns on a conditional Russian twice as much as it spends on its maintenance. Quote:

“According to the calculations of the ECC“ Invest-Project ”, the average profitability of a conventional Russian for 2010-2020 was 186.2%.

For calculations, we took the consolidated budget expenditures of all levels (federal, regional and local) for each year and divided by the annual GDP per capita. The conventional Russian is profitable.

But as you can see from the graph above, over 10 years, the growth in profitability on an annualized basis happened only 3 times - in 2011, 2017 and 2018. At the same time, it is curious to note that the conventional Russian gave the highest profitability in 2018 (202.2%), which just coincided with the increase in VAT. The lowest level of profitability for this decade is expected at the end of 2020 - 176.2%.

Thus, the profitability per conditional Russian can be called one of the key targets for the effectiveness of socio-economic development "

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes the country has roughly two weeks to prepare for another pandemic strike.

"We see what is happening in the world. This suggests that we have at least a couple of weeks to get ready," the head of state said on Wednesday at a meeting with members of the government. So he reacted to the report of Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova on the situation with the spread of coronavirus and its new strain "omicron".

Putin considers it necessary to properly prepare for a possible new wave of covid in all regions of the country. "In order to work effectively, we need to mobilize institutions of various kinds - both federal institutions and regional, local, sectoral ones. We need to work with everyone and be ready for a possible impact of this virus on a new round," the president stressed.

The St. Petersburg Department of Rospotrebnadzor by its decree introduced a ban on the provision of planned assistance and medical examinations in the city on the Neva.

The document dated January 21 states that due to the deterioration of the situation due to the “omicron”, from now until further notice, a ban is introduced on preventive medical examinations and medical examinations of certain groups of the population, as well as medical examinations of children.