How a Country of 144 Million Ran Out of Workers
Daily Story Brief di Jill & Joe
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How does a country of 144 million people run out of workers? In this episode of Daily Story Brief, we unpack how Russia’s labour crisis became one of the most dangerous threats to its economy and long-term stability.
Russia’s demographic crisis didn’t start with the war in Ukraine—it started with the collapse of the Soviet Union. When the USSR fell in 1991, a brutal economic shock sent birth rates plunging and death rates soaring, creating the infamous “Russian cross,” the point where the lines for births and deaths cross on a chart. From the early 1990s onward, deaths routinely outnumbered births, and Russia’s population began to shrink even in peacetime.
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