December 29, 2007

BARE IN THE WOODS:

Russian population dropped this year (Calibre, December 29, 2007)

Russia lost more than 200,000 people this year, the statistics service said Saturday.

The population decline of 0.15 percent was slightly smaller than in 2006, RIA Novosti reported. The country's population was estimated at 142 million as of Nov. 1, the Russian news agency said.

While the death rate continued to exceed the birth rate, the number of immigrants was up 87 percent. [...]

United Nations demographers say if current trends continue, Russia's population will be one-third smaller than it is now in 2050.


Fear of Russia is second only to fear of the debt as an indicator of innumeracy.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 29, 2007 10:00 PM
Comments

The estimated numbers are an open joke too. I don't think they'll recover from WWII.

Posted by: Robert Mitchell Jr. at December 30, 2007 1:12 AM

The comsymps told us that they had . . ."seen the future, and it works," and the Devil laughed.

Posted by: Lou Gots at December 30, 2007 5:38 AM

They must have meant, "works for us, not them."

Posted by: erp at December 30, 2007 10:51 AM

Kind of like all those talented kids and faculty at VMI being afraid of a loser like Cho Seung-Hui. I mean, the guy was a total putz, a social loser, and an academic twit, certainly compared to the rest of them.

Why in the world be afraid of someone like that??

Posted by: Andrew X at December 30, 2007 12:50 PM

Exactly. He's dead and the institution unscathed. Suicide attacks are for losers.

Posted by: oj at December 30, 2007 3:46 PM
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