Fertility of Urban and Rural Population in Post-Soviet Russia: Regional Trends

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	Regionalistica 2024 Volume 11 number 2 pages 5-26

Title of the article	Fertility of Urban and Rural Population in Post-Soviet Russia: Regional Trends
Pages	5-26
Author	Domnich Yegor Leonidovich candidate of sciences (economics), senior research fellow Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-1379-8053
Abstract	Fertility – a quantitative expression of the intensity of childbearing in a population – is one of the most important socio-economic parameters of the development of society. Its spatial and temporal characteristics have key importance for regional development. Based on an analysis of the total fertility rate for 79 regions of Russia during 1993–2022, the characteristics of the fertility of the urban and rural population, which are reproduced regardless of the territorial grouping of the regions, were identified. The total fertility rates were calculated for groups of regions allocated according to the administrative- territorial division of the Russian Federation and depending on the birth rate in real generations of women. Regardless of the grouping of regions, it was found that the birth rate of the urban population began to increase significantly already in the first period of growth (2000– 2006), associated with an improvement in the overall socio-economic level. The rate of its increase doubled during the second growth period (2007–2015), associated with the institution of maternity capital. At the same time, the birth rate of the rural population showed no signs of growth in general during the first period of growth but showed twice the rate of increase compared to the urban population during the second period of growth. The rate of decline in rural fertility in both the first recession period (1993–1999) and the second (2015–2022) was on average twice that of the urban population, indicating the distinctive vulnerability of rural fertility.
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DOI	10.14530/reg.2024.2.5
Keywords	fertility, total fertility rate, urban population, rural population, comparative analysis Russia, regions
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For citation	Domnich Y.L. Fertility of Urban and Rural Population in Post-Soviet Russia: Regional Trends. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2024. Vol. 11. No. 2. Pp. 5–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2024.2.5 (In Russian)
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