Of the 43.865 million pensioners at the beginning of 2019, 42.598 million remained in the country by April 2021. In annual terms, this reduced the Pension Fund’s expenses on payments by 240 billion rubles (with an average pension of 15778 rubles).
At the end of 2020, the total mortality rate in Russia increased by 17.9%, to 2.124 million people.
In the first quarter of 2021, another 583.7 thousand died. The increase in mortality – by 26.9% in annual terms – was a record since the mass famine of 1947.
Officially Russia had about 200k Covid related deaths. When there are suddenly 1.2 million pensioners less in just two years, it makes you think…
We could call it the “Sputnik shock”
Someone finally figured out the pension crisis, it seems.
This fixes the birthrate disparity between now and the early Soviet period, meaning the young generation will hold less of the burden of supporting a much older population that outnumbers them.
They won’t have the same issue as Japan and China in this regard.
Woah, didn’t think so many russian pensioners were in free fall. That’s peculiar.
It’s a win-win; fewer pensions to pay means more Corona parties for young people. /s
Thanks corona you’re economy saver
Well that’s putin’s solution to the pension crisis.
Well that happens when You have way too many open windows……
mainly due to pension reform (2018).
Corona coming in clutch to save the russian economy.
Is it true that pensioners, including babushkas in Russia will become minority in the future due to Covid?
Does this also affect the pensioners/workers ratio or not?
Putin and the ruling oligarchs are only happy about it, less money to be spent on people and more on themselves
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Of the 43.865 million pensioners at the beginning of 2019, 42.598 million remained in the country by April 2021. In annual terms, this reduced the Pension Fund’s expenses on payments by 240 billion rubles (with an average pension of 15778 rubles).
At the end of 2020, the total mortality rate in Russia increased by 17.9%, to 2.124 million people.
In the first quarter of 2021, another 583.7 thousand died. The increase in mortality – by 26.9% in annual terms – was a record since the mass famine of 1947.
Officially Russia had about 200k Covid related deaths. When there are suddenly 1.2 million pensioners less in just two years, it makes you think…
We could call it the “Sputnik shock”
Someone finally figured out the pension crisis, it seems.
This fixes the birthrate disparity between now and the early Soviet period, meaning the young generation will hold less of the burden of supporting a much older population that outnumbers them.
They won’t have the same issue as Japan and China in this regard.
Woah, didn’t think so many russian pensioners were in free fall. That’s peculiar.
It’s a win-win; fewer pensions to pay means more Corona parties for young people. /s
Thanks corona you’re economy saver
Well that’s putin’s solution to the pension crisis.
Well that happens when You have way too many open windows……
mainly due to pension reform (2018).
Corona coming in clutch to save the russian economy.
Is it true that pensioners, including babushkas in Russia will become minority in the future due to Covid?
Does this also affect the pensioners/workers ratio or not?
Putin and the ruling oligarchs are only happy about it, less money to be spent on people and more on themselves