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I guess you could try the russian approach to fertility: make music videos encouraging the populace to get knocked up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSf1UcFR

I guess you could try the russian approach to fertility: make music videos encouraging the populace to get knocked up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSf1UcFRq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSf1UcFRq0

somenameforme 3y ago
Hahaha, you know - it seems pretty funny, but I think it's not a bad idea at all! They are also doing other things like offering substantial payments to married couples have who have children. They have an abnormal fertility issue going on thanks to the 90s. When the USSR collapsed Russia economically collapsed and fell into borderline anarchy, to say nothing of rampant alcoholism and drug use, which sent fertility rates plummeting even below Japan. It's getting much better now, but they lost the better part of a generation, and they're still below where they should be. Their population pyramid is here [1] where you can see it all too clearly. That huge gaping maw that peaks at around 28 years old is due to fertility collapse in the 90s. I think it's also reasonable evidence for my 'vicious cycle' hypothesis. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media/File:Russia_Population_Pyramid.svg https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media...
- 082349872349872 3y ago
  The trough at 80 must be WWII, but I wonder what the trough at 57 might be? Rampant alcoholism would easily explain the gender imbalance at the older end: male and alcoholic tends to end poorly, especially if tobacco is involved on top.
  - somenameforme 3y ago
    Really interesting point on the trough at 57. I have no idea! That's really quite visible, and would've been around 1967. But there were, to my knowledge, no particularly major events around then, in the USSR, that could easily explain it. On the gender imbalance, men just tend to die younger than women. As a funny (?) factoid, evolution/nature also somehow optimizes for this. There's about 107 boys born for every 100 girls. [1] But after we get done getting ourselves killed in all sorts of creative ways, you end up with a sex ratio that's almost exactly 50:50 across all ages; at older ages you end with a sex ratio skewed towards women. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio

somenameforme 3y ago

Hahaha, you know - it seems pretty funny, but I think it's not a bad idea at all! They are also doing other things like offering substantial payments to married couples have who have children. They have an abnormal fertility issue going on thanks to the 90s. When the USSR collapsed Russia economically collapsed and fell into borderline anarchy, to say nothing of rampant alcoholism and drug use, which sent fertility rates plummeting even below Japan. It's getting much better now, but they lost the better part of a generation, and they're still below where they should be. Their population pyramid is here [1] where you can see it all too clearly. That huge gaping maw that peaks at around 28 years old is due to fertility collapse in the 90s. I think it's also reasonable evidence for my 'vicious cycle' hypothesis. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media/File:Russia_Population_Pyramid.svg https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media...

082349872349872 3y ago
The trough at 80 must be WWII, but I wonder what the trough at 57 might be? Rampant alcoholism would easily explain the gender imbalance at the older end: male and alcoholic tends to end poorly, especially if tobacco is involved on top.
- somenameforme 3y ago
  Really interesting point on the trough at 57. I have no idea! That's really quite visible, and would've been around 1967. But there were, to my knowledge, no particularly major events around then, in the USSR, that could easily explain it. On the gender imbalance, men just tend to die younger than women. As a funny (?) factoid, evolution/nature also somehow optimizes for this. There's about 107 boys born for every 100 girls. [1] But after we get done getting ourselves killed in all sorts of creative ways, you end up with a sex ratio that's almost exactly 50:50 across all ages; at older ages you end with a sex ratio skewed towards women. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio