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Yet one more reason why people in the US are not having kids.
What’s your excuse, Russia?
Not saying it is for similar reasons, but Russia is, as far as I know, quite comparable to European countries in this regard. They're losing much more young men, so the demographic will be very different in the future but I don't think birth rate is actually that far off and not nearly as dramatic as south-korea's is for example.
Economic decline and young men dying in a war
How about loosing 27 million people 80 years ago fighting the Nazis? If that didn't happen we could be counting the offspring of another 10-15 million Russians. Then the famine, loosing their country, and building a new state. The 1990s, early 2000s must have been the complete opposite in Russia than in the USA. Also, in the 1980s the USSR was already collapsing.