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[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Russia has a decreasing population.

It doesn't matter what titles you give people, if people don't see a good future ahead in their country they won't have kids.

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Russia has a slightly declining population, and they're young-people-heavy compared to Europe

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009271/population-size-russia/

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w54HufM7s6g/maxresdefault.jpg

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Because the life expectancy is lower so the boomer generation is dying off there already.

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it's like 10% shorter, not nearly enough to explain the graph