Nevertheless, Russia is also suffering from a demographic crisis that will take Emerging Europe population levels back to the early 20 th century as the dent in the demographic curved cause by the crashing life expectance in the 1990s now hits the working age population. Thanks to the relative prosperity that Russian enjoyed following the end of the recession in the middle of this decade plus a pro-birth government policies as featured by bne IntelliNews’ Putin’s babies, Russian fertility rates recovered to 1.8 in 2023 – one of the highest in Europe – from record lows in the middle of the decade when the fertility rate fell to a record low 1.5. By contrast, a UN study found the populations in Central Asia are booming and are all expected to grow in the next few decades. Germany has a fertility rate of 1.6 in 2023. On top of that the fertility rate in 2022 was 1.4 births per woman - well below the replacement rate.Īs bne IntelliNews reported, Emerging Europe is already suffering from a demographic crisis that will take population levels back to the early 20 th century in the coming decade. As the poorest country in Europe, a fifth of the labour force had already left to seek better paid jobs in the EU and Russia. Ukraine was already suffering a demographic crisis before the war started. That made Uzbekistan the second biggest population in the former Soviet Union after Russia (146mn). With an average age of 29.1 as of January 2022 and an extraordinary 2.33 births per woman, the population grew by 1.6% between 20. Uzbekistan had 34.9mn people as of June according to the UN and by far the youngest and fastest growing population of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) states. Uzbekistan has overtaken Ukraine to become the second most populous country in the former Soviet Union as the war-torn countries population plummets.
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