Russia population shrinks by half a million during COVID-19 pandemic: Report

population of Russia has shrunk for first time in past 15 years, country’s statistics ncy said on January 29. With pandemic pushing country into crisis, experts attributed decline primarily to COVID-19 induced deaths, low birth rate and increased migration. President Vlimir Putin has long called for measures to increase population and opined that low income was one of main cause for country’s diminishing population.

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‘Pandemic is main cause’

Russia has reported over 72,185 deaths solely due to coronavirus and over 3,813,048 cases of lethal infection. ncy revealed that re were 229,700 more deaths between January and vember 2020 than in same period previous year, an excess mortality rate of more than 13 per cent. total population of Russia stands at 146.2 million in 2021.

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Similar trends

Affected by ongoing coronavirus pandemic, London’s population is set to decline for first time in 30 years, a report by accountancy firm PwC revealed. With residents struggling to survive amid constant ecomic crisis resulting mass exodus to or locations, report stated that population of people living in British capital could fall by more than 300,000 from 9 million in 2020 to 8.7 million in 2021. It would mark city’s first annual drop in population since 1988. 

Poland is also on a similar trajectory. According to a forecast by country's Finance Ministry, country's population is expected to fall to 37.98 million from present 38.32 million by 2025.  demographic decline will shrink Poland's production- population (men of 18-64 years of and women of 18-59) by 0.8 million people by 2025, ministry said.

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Since its beginning in Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, coronavirus pandemic has killed over two million people across nations, In dendum, it has infected over 100 million with new mutations still arising. Earlier this month, Germany h confirmed that it h ordered 200,000 doses of experimental drug that treated former US President of infection. 

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