Getting out of the demographic hole: Sverdlovsk region authorities save the situation.
The regional government approved an updated plan to increase the birth rate until 2030. The document directly admits: the population continues to decrease, and life expectancy lags behind the Russian average. During the last nine years alone, the population decrease in the region amounted to 108,219 people.
Experts agree that the root of the problem is not only on the economic level. Immigration will not save the situation. Officials rely on IVF subsidies and payments to student parents. Whether it will help us get out of the demographic hole is an open question.
How the situation will develop in the near future and whether any breakthrough is possible is in our material.