The demographic situation in the Komi Republic is difficult, the region must be saved before it becomes deserted, said Andrei Klimushev, deputy of the Komi State Council, chairman of the permanent commission on health, physical culture and sports, BNK agency reports in March. 2.
On March 2, in Syktyvkar, the Komi State Council organized a round table on the issue of abortion. Its participants were members of the region’s government, deputies of the Council of State, doctors, religious and public figures. Here the demographic situation of the region was also discussed. They considered it difficult.
So, Klimushev cited data on the number of births and deaths in Komi. In 2022, 6,498 babies were born there. This number decreased by 851 people from the previous year. At the same time, 10,481 people died.
“[Естественная убыль] there are 4 thousand people. If the demographic indicators remain the same, then the math is simple: we will take 800 thousand people in 2021, with the loss of 4 thousand people annually, we have 200 years left, there will be no republic.emphasized.
In turn, the chief physician of the Republican Perinatal Center Olga Lebedeva spoke about the decrease in the number of women of reproductive age (from 15 to 49 years). “In five years, their number has decreased by more than 13,000. The sad thing is that the indicators of the republic are one and a half to two times worse than in the Russian Federation as a whole. Now there are 183,000 women of childbearing age in Komi.”– she said.
According to her, many factors influenced this situation. One of them is the declining birth rate in the 1990s. “Echoes of War” also played a role then. “But there has never been such a critical drop in the birth rate in the history of the republic”emphasized.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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