Over the decades since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation has been in the grip of an unrelenting demographic crisis.

AEI's Henry Wendt Scholar Nicholas Eberstadt wins the prestigious Bradley Prize

Since 1992, Russia's human numbers have been progressively dwindling.

Modern Russia is in the throes of a prolonged depopulation which qualifies as nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe.

Since the time of the Black Plague, the world’s population has headed in only one direction: up. But within a few decades, writes Ben J. Wattenberg in his new book Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future (Ivan R. Dee, October 2004), the number...

Are subreplacement fertility and the ongoing Western "flight from marriage" bad for business? Please join us as we host a panel to explore the interaction between birth rates, marriage and economic growth.

Barring the unimaginable, just 30 years from now, Japan will be a far smaller and vastly more aged country than the one we know today. On the cusp of a monumental demographic transformation, Japan is gradually but relentlessly evolving into a society whose contours and workings are the stuff of science fiction.

The Russian Federation has exhibited features which have resulted in a demographic crisis and less progressive depopulation in the last two decades.