REFLECTION OF DEMOGRAPHIC POLICY IN FERTILITY RATES IN RUSSIA

Abstract

Since 2018, a new package of demographic policy measures has been introduced in Russia, including direct financial support for families with children, a preferential mortgage lending program, expanded use of maternity funds, and the development of infrastructure aimed at facilitating childcare. In 2019-2020, the measures taken were adjusted and supplemented. The article attempts to answer the question of whether the introduction of a package of pro-natalist measures affects the fertility rate; the possible impact of new measures of demographic policy, its timing and nature is considered. The article presents a detailed analysis of the main parameters of fertility, such as the dynamics of age-specific fertility rates by five-year age groups for first second and third births; transformation of the age profile of fertility; dynamics of the total fertility rate. The contribution of structural (change in the number of women of reproductive age for each age group) and demographic (change in age-specific fertility rates) factors to the change in the number of births has been determined. The groups of regions are formed according to the age profiles of the first-born fertility. The author applies methods of comparative analysis of fertility rates by age groups, by birth order, by region, methods of retrospective analysis, classification, and grouping. The research results can be used in the development of measures to improve population policy.