Editing Demographics of Russia (section)

=== Fertility ===
[[File:Russia animated population pyramid.gif|thumb|Population age pyramid of Russia from 1946 to 2023]]
Between 1993 and 2008 there was a great [[Population decline|decrease in the country's population]] from 148 to 143 million.<ref name="intellinews">{{cite web|url=https://intellinews.com/russian-fertility-rates-fall-to-record-lows-on-the-back-of-a-deteriorating-economy-and-sanctions-pressure-243191/|title=Russian fertility rates fall to record lows on the back of a deteriorating economy and sanctions pressure|website=BNE Intellinews|date=4 May 2022|author=Ben Aris|location=Berlin}}</ref> There was a huge 50% decrease in the number of births per year from 2.5 million in 1987 to 1.2 million since 1997, but the current 1.42 fertility rate is still higher than that of the 1990s.<ref name="intellinews"/>

At the beginning of 2022, 320,400 babies were born between January and March, 16,600 fewer than January–March 2021. There were nearly twice as many deaths (584,700) as births.<ref name="intellinews"/> The crude birth rate – 8.9 per 100,000 inhabitants – was the lowest since the year 2000.<ref name="intellinews"/>

Russia has a low fertility rate with 1.42 children per woman in 2022, below 2.1 children per woman, which must be the number reached to maintain its population.<ref name="intellinews"/> As a result of their low fertility for decades, the Russian population is one of the oldest in the world with an average of 40.3 years.<ref name="intellinews"/>