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The war provoked two large waves of emigration from Russia. The exact number of those who left and did not return was not disclosed by the authorities. According to the minimum estimates of The Bell, more than 500 thousand people left their homeland.
According to the state statistics agency, in 2020 and 2021 combined the country’s population declined by 1.3m and deaths outstripped births by 1.7m. (The un also shows a fall but it is shallower). The decline was largest among ethnic Russians whose number, the census of 2021 said, fell by 5.4m in 2010-21. Their share of the population fell from 78% to 72%. If you add pandemic mortality to the casualties of war and the flight from mobilisation, Russia lost between 1.9m and 2.8m people in 2020-23 on top of its normal demographic deterioration. That would be even worse than during the disastrous early 2000s when the population was falling by roughly half amn a year.
Life expectancy in Russia is expected to reach 73.18 years in 2023, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Monday. According to the health minister, life expectancy in Russia rose to 72.6 years in 2022, up by 2.5 years on the 2021 level. The forecasted figure for 2022 had been 71.1 years.
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