Abstract
The article analyzes differences in fertility rates among Moscow residents of different nationalities and with different levels of education. The analysis is based on 2020 Census data on responses to the question on the number of children born. Ethnic differences are considered differentially according to birth order. They were most evident in the proportion of those who gave birth to a third child among those who gave birth to a second. Among the most numerous nationalities in Moscow, Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians and Jews have the lowest average number of children born. On the other hand, among Kyrgyz and Chechens this indicator exceeds 2.0, even among those women who were 35–39 years old at the 2020 census. An analysis of educational differences in the average number of children born in real generations of women showed that in Moscow, unlike Russia as a whole, women with higher professional education have the largest, not the smallest, value of this indicator. Identifying the reasons for this requires additional research, but in any case, these data cast doubt on the thesis about the inevitability of lower fertility among women with higher education.
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