From more Russians, with longer life expectancy

By Lisa Pollack

While its fellow BRICs have rapidly growing populations, Russia’s has only recently been bucking its trend of decline. Things are going in the right direction for the other 142,864,999 people who live in Russia too — they are living longer.

Getting to the economic impact, there has been a corresponding increase in the numbers of the economically active and employed.

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