Rostovskaya T.K. and Natsak O.D. Demographic Development Issues of Tuva Based on the Materials of the National Demographic Report — 2024. New Research of Tuva, 2026, no. 1, pp. 275-291 (In Russ.). DOI: https: ...

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Abstract

The article presents an analysis of key demographic problems of Russian regions included in the National Demographic Report - 2024, as well as management measures undertaken by the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to improve the situation in the sphere of population reproduction. The authors identify positive and negative trends in the demographic development of the Republic of Tuva against the background of regional differentiation in the indicators of the main components of population reproduction, namely fertility, mortality, marriage, divorce, and migration. The demographic trends observed in Tuva are shown to be like those characteristics of most Russian regions. Positive trends include post-pandemic recovery in life expectancy at birth, an increase in the convergence of male and female mortality indicators, and a reduction in the rate of population decline. At the same time, a depopulation trend is also observed. In Tuva, population growth occurs exclusively due to natural increase amid net migration outflows. In all regions, gender disproportions persist in the population structure and in life expectancy indicators, as well as a decrease in the share of women of reproductive age and a decline in fertility. These trends are also typical for Tuva, even though it is one of the two Russian regions that ensures a fertility level exceeding natural population replacement. Tuva, as a region with a later demographic modernization, has contrasting characteristics: against the background of population ageing in other regions, it maintains a progressive age structure and an excess of births over deaths. However, specific features of the structural distribution of mortality, such as higher mortality of the rural population compared to the urban population, higher mortality among men compared to women, a decrease in the share of the rural population, and negative trends in the marriage and family structure, are typical for Tuva along with all other regions.