[airgapstopgap]

Russian population decline has been compensated for with a great number of immigrants from Central Asia (plus occupied Crimea; that's not recognized internationally but is obviously a factor for their economy). It'd probably be more like 138 million modulo those and their children, perhaps less.

[aylmao]

That's an interesting point; Crimea has about 2 million people. This doesn't seem to show on the charts though, when in theory it should look like a spike around 2014, no?

[1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=R...

[airgapstopgap]

Well Russian charts do show it, because since 2015 Russia includes Crimea in internal stats. As you can see it's also growing in 2022, despite there being consistently more deaths than births for years on end. I suppose we can infer what this means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#After_W...