The demographic development of the Russia Arctic area’s cities

• Main Author: Sinitsa Arseniy
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: https://www.econ.msu.ru/sys/raw.php?o=28355&p=attachment

The issues of the development of the Arctic area of Russia that are linked with its importance for the economy of Russia provide the necessity to study its population. The Arctic area population is mostly an urban one, that’s why the special consideration to it should be taken. We examined the size, the age-sex structure and the natural movement of the urban population of the Russia’s Arctic area. As a result, the regions that belong to the Arctic area have the natural population increase, but its losses from the migratory movement are higher, so the population of the Russia’s Arctic area has been decreasing. At the conclusion different ways of the demographic development of the Russia’s Arctic area and some measures of the demographic policy encourage the population increase are discussed Russia’s Arctic area, Arctic cities of Russia, natural population movement, socioeconomic development, demographic policy.