By 2030, the shortage of engineers in Russia may increase to 695 thousand people. This is more than six times the current shortage of 111,000 specialists, with a total number of employees in the industry of approximately 2.5 million people. The need for engineers will increase from 2.63 million to 3.13 million, and the number of available specialists will decrease to 2.44 million. As a result, the supply of personnel to organizations will drop from 95.8% to 77.8%, Forbes writes.