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Russians moving into the country during Soviet rule and moving out after it seem to explain the graph pretty well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Russians
by air 13y ago
Russians moving into the country during Soviet rule and moving out after it seem to explain the graph pretty well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Russians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Russians :
The number of Russians in Latvia increased significantly during the Soviet occupation of Latvia when the size of the community grew from 10.5% of the total population in 1935 (206,499) to 34.0% in 1989 (905,515). It started to decrease in size again after Latvia re-gained independence in 1991 falling to 26.9% (557,119) in 2011.
- thesz 13y agoNo, it doesn't fully explain changes. Numbers don't match. Take a look at another statistics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Latvia#Vital_statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Latvia#Vital_st... Number of births per 1000 had fallen right after end of "Russian occupation" and never ever regained 14.2 right before Latvian independence.
- air 13y agoThe graph on the same page shows that there is no collapse in the amount of ethnic Latvians in Latvia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnic_groups_in_Latvia.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnic_groups_in_Latvia.pn...
- stdbrouw 13y agoYour point being that fertile people are happy people?
- thesz 13y agoDirectly answering your question - No. There's a point of time where Latvia went EU route, namely 1995. Nothing changed at that time. The trend started in 1991 (when USSR was split) continued until not very far past. The most important consequence of that trend is low fertility. I also would like to comment on your question. From what I saw in my life, happy people are fertile people. The people who feels support from all directions are fertile people. And also happy ones.