“Vedomosti”: the mortality rate for the year exceeded 2.4 million, this is the worst indicator since 1945
Mortality in Russia over the last year, from December 2020 to 2021, became a record and exceeded 2.4 million people. This is the worst indicator since the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Such an estimate of the number of deaths was given by Vedomosti.
Natural population decline, excluding migration, exceeded the mark of 990,000 thousand. The previous record for the number of deaths was recorded in 2003, when the number of deaths was 2.37 million.