Modern demographic processes in the Russian Far East

Abstract

n the article, the author presents an analysis of demographic situation in the Far-Eastern federal district in its modern administrative boundaries, approved and formalized at the end of 2018. When compiling demographic portrait and analyzing the prevailing demographic processes in the Russian Far East, statistical materials were used, and the dynamics series were compiled on the studied population problems in the region. Demographic situation in the context of the Far-Eastern subjects is analyzed on the basis of the dynamics of total population, the processes of its natural movement - fertility, mortality, age composition, life expectancy and migration movement within the framework of intraregional, interregional and external flows (with CIS countries and far abroad). Their role in formation of population dynamics in the region is shown. Based on the available official information and conclusions of the Far-Eastern scientists, proposals have been formulated that provide for the growth of natural reproduction of population, attraction, adaptation and consolidation of population in the Russian Far East. The article contains a large amount of the state statistical information, author's calculations and analysis of the dynamics of natural and migration movement of the population in the context of the subjects of the Far-Eastern federal district. The article presents data based on the official statistics on the prospective population in the Far-Eastern region until 2035. The material of this article can be used as an information source in the regional administrative centers, in the educational processes of educational institutions – higher educational institutions of the region and schools.