However, the majority of compatriots has no idea of the scale of this disaster
25.05.2014 - 1:06
Demographic crisis that struck the peoples of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus as a result of the first phase of «European integration» — a widely known fact. However, the majority of compatriots has no idea of the scale of this disaster.
According to the 1989 census lived in the USSR 145.2 million Russian, 44.2 million Ukrainians, Belarusians 10.03 million. Given the number of foreign diasporas East Slavic peoples can be estimated as 147 million Russian, 47 million Ukrainians, Belarusians 10.4 million.
In the eighties, our nations grew at a rate of about 0.5% per year. Even with the slow decline in the birth rate in the first decade of the XXI century expected natural growth of 0.2–0.3%, and the increase in terms of life due to the growing capabilities of medicine allowed to retain the growth rate at the current level.
By sufficiently humble forecast expected that in 2014, 25 years after the last census of the Union, the Slavs in the world would be much larger. However, instead of growth we got a deep dip (see table).
World number of East Slavic peoples (million).
