Age structure of the population of Moscow and St. Petersburg: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Gayane L. Safarova () and Anna A. Safarova ()
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Gayane L. Safarova: Institute of Regional Economic Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Anna A. Safarova: Institute of Regional Economic Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Population and Economics, 2019, vol. 3, issue 3, 23-42

Abstract: The article analyzes the dynamics of the aggregate age structure of the population of Moscow and St. Petersburg between 1990 and 2015, as well as in the long term up to 2045 in accordance with a number of scenarios of changes in the indicators of major demographic processes. Besides, the population pyramids of St. Petersburg and Moscow according to the following population censuses are considered: the First Census of Population of the Russian Empire of 1897, the All-Union population censuses of 1926, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, 1989, the All-Russian population censuses of 2002 and 2010, and a quantitative evaluation of their similarities and differences is given.

Keywords: population ageing; age structure of the population; comparative analysis; perspective calculations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.3897/popecon.3.e47234

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