In a number of regions, population decline has grown more than 50 times over the year

So, in St. Petersburg, the natural population decline soared 58 times - from 308 to 17.9 thousand people, RBC reports with reference to Rosstat data. In Tatarstan, the figure grew even more - 72 times - from 180 to 12.9 thousand people.

At the same time, Moscow is leading in terms of absolute population decline. In 2019, the population of the capital increased by 16.2 thousand people, and in 2020 it decreased by 24.6 thousand.

Also, the population decline increased more than the average for Russia, in the Astrakhan region (6 times), in Kamchatka (5.2 times), in the Trans-Baikal Territory (3.3 times) and the Tomsk region (3 times).

Earlier it was reported that for the first quarter 2021 natural population decline in Russia has increased by half compared with the same period of 2020 and amounted to 247 000 people. At the same time, the population of the country as of January 1 of this year has become the minimum since the beginning of 2014.