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Russia: Depopulation by low birth rates and high death ones. Or not.
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I’m a college professor. On bleaker days I wonder if my career will finish up with me sitting on a highway overpass, holding a sign that says “Will teach plant identification for food” or “Will teach you how to run a t-test for food.”
We hear so much stuff about how “X is the new exciting thing that will change education forever, and you must immediately adopt X.” and then when you talk to the students in your classes, you find out that most of them HATE X and just want you to provide well-organized lecture and discussion. Well, at least, the students I have who seem to be invested in their education tell me that.
Plant identification seems like a better field to be in than some other lines of study, though I wouldn’t know. I certainly wish you the best, though.
Russian demographics have a couple unusual features:
1) The birth rate among women in their 20’s is as high as anywhere else in the developed world. After 30, however, women almost entirely stop having children. No one has been able to explain why.
2) Almost all of the excess deaths are among men in their 50’s and 60’s.
1) That’s really interesting.
2) The average lifespan of Russians is truly staggering. Though for population purposes, that seems to be after they’ve done whatever part they’re going to do to boost the population.