How the EU can destroy Russia :
Just allow
1) Unlimited immigration of any ethnic Russian 18 to 40 with a college degree, with any minor childern.
AND
2) Allow immigration of any literate ethnic Russian 18 to 30 without children or a criminal record.
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The UK thought they would get about 13,000 people from Poland, they have about 300,000. in about 6 years.
If the whole EU could get about 600,000 a year for about 10 years, the Russians would have turn out the lights ;-)
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Let's look at some population data -
Russian Population data ....
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Population:
142,893,540 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure
0-14 years: 14.2% (male 10,441,151/female 9,921,102)
[ USA is 20.4% China 20.8% Brazil 25.8% ]
15-64 years: 71.3% (male 49,271,698/female 52,679,463)
65 years and over: 14.4% (male 6,500,814/female 14,079,312) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 38.4 years
[ USA 36.5 Brazil 28.2 ]
male: 35.2 years
female: 41.3 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.37% (2006 est.)
[ USA 0.8% China 0.59% Brazil 1.04% Poland -0.02% ]
Birth rate:
9.95 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
14.65 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
1.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.94 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.46 male(s)/female
total population: 0.86 male(s)/female (2006 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 15.13 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 17.43 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 12.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 67.08 years
male: 60.45 years
female: 74.1 years (2006 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.28 children born/woman (2006 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Russian(s)
adjective: Russian
Ethnic groups:
Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002 census)
Religions:
Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.)
note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule |
