Like Japan, Russia is in a demographic crisis. The men are dying too young; the women aren’t having enough kids; the country has more immigrants than it knows what to do with; and it’s running out of working-age people to support everybody else. Plus: vodka. According to World Health Organization data cited by Quartz’s Matt Phillips, a staggering 30% of Russian deaths in 2012 were some how related to drinking, from liver failure to car accidents. All that adds up to a “perfect demographic storm,” according to former United Nation demographers Joseph Chamie and Barry Mirkin. In …read more
Source: Business Insider
