In Fifty Years, Russia’s Population Will Dip Below 100 million
Human evolution always finds a balance as Russia’s stupidity threatens to push the country to the brink of irrelevance
Take a look at that face. Yes, I was thinking the same thing: Grinch-like, right? He is similar in many ways to the Grinch, but that is not why I asked you to go against the natural impulse to avert your eyes from this demon. Look again, please. You are seeing the reason why Russia, by 2090, will be demographically irrelevant.
It is estimated that Russia’s population will fall to about 132 million in the next two decades. The United Nations has predicted that in a worst-case scenario, by the start of the next century, Russia’s population could almost halve to 83 million, Newsweek previously reported.
If you come from a country with a population under 20 million, for example, you think that 132 million, even 83 million, is a lot of people. I agree. If you put that amount of people into Estonia, then the tiny but feisty Baltic nation would quickly become Gaza-like in terms of population density. Russia has a landmass that spans 11 percent of the Earth’s surface or 17.1 million square kilometers. Estonia is 45,000 square kilometers.
