Rosstat called the regions with the highest and lowest fertility rates. This ratio indicates how many children born to women of childbearing age.
according to RT, in the whole country the birth rate is 1.5. The highest index in the Republic of Tuva – of 2.72. This means that in most families in the region brought two or three children.
In Chechnya, the odds of 2.58, in the Nenets Autonomous district – of 2.17, in the Altai Republic and 2.11. The top five leaders of the Sakhalin region with an index of 1.95.
And the lowest rate recorded in the Leningrad region, where the rate of 1.07. This can be explained by the characteristics of the region. In Leningrad region there is a significant population growth due to migration, that is, people move here from other regions and families often do not hurry with the birth of a child.
in addition, the feature of cities in Kudrovo or Murino that a significant number of residents here rent apartments and do not have a residence. Accordingly, they do not appear in the overall statistics.
In the future, the authorities of the Leningrad region plan to appeal to mobile operators to figure out how many people actually live in cities on the border with St. Petersburg.
Also among the regions which recorded the lowest fertility rate was of Mordovia with an index of 1.17, Smolensk oblast (index of 1.21), and also Penza and Tula region (index of 1.26).
