Reproductive Activity Dynamics in Regions: Growth in the Rate of Large Families Amid the Decline in the Birth Rate
Monitoring of Russia's economic Outlook. Moscow. IEP. No. 14, pp. 15-18, 2019
4 Pages Posted: 24 Oct 2019
Date Written: October 15, 2019
Abstract
The final data for 2018 point simultaneously to the continued decline in the birth rate and growth in families having many children: the number of regions where the rate of birth of the third child and any subsequent one soared amid the decline in the birth rate of the first and second child has largely increased. The immediate consequence of this trend is growth in the number of families having many children and the share of children born in such families. A high rate of large families is typical of the regions with low socioeconomic indices. For this reason, the state support of large families is becoming a particularly relevant objective. However, in terms of the dynamics of families having many children, the leader-regions as regards growth in the number of large families vary by economic parameters. Most of them are situated in the following three geographic zones: the Far East, the North-West and the Central Federal District. The noticeable differences between constituent entities of the Russian Federation as regards observable growth in families having many children raise an issue about the expediency of regional birth rate support measures aimed at promoting the birth rate of the third child and any subsequent one. This issue has no common solution and requires the regional specifics to be taken into account.
Keywords: Birth Rate
JEL Classification: J11, J13
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