The Baltic Demographic Disaster
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The Baltic Demographic Disaster
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#2So what happened in 2010? The article doesn't explain the most prominent feature of the charts...
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#3So what happened in 2010? The article doesn't explain the most prominent feature of the charts...
That might be this comment: "It’s true that the Baltics suffered a particularly rapid outflow after the popping of their respective economic bubbles".
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#4I'm interested in levels of ethnic Russian emigration from the Baltics. Has this happened, and if so, how much does it contribute to this picture?
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#5"over the past two decades, their populations have collapsed at a historically unprecedented rate."
I don't think it's completely unprecedented, but I doubt that people will take heart in being compared favorably to the Black Death.
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#6I'm interested in levels of ethnic Russian emigration from the Baltics. Has this happened, and if so, how much does it contribute to this picture?
Interestingly, according to http://im.kommersant.ru/ISSUES.PHOTO/CORP/2013/02/21/dsryu4...., the Baltics combined have the largest russian diaspora in the world, followed by USA, Germany and Israel. Probably due to the proximity and relative ease of emigration from Russia to the Baltic states.
If you read russian, here is a series of articles with advice on various emigration destinations. It's an interesting view into the current mindset there. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2132694
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#7"over the past two decades, their populations have collapsed at a historically unprecedented rate." I don't think it's completely unprecedented, but I doubt that people will take heart in being compared favorably to the Black Death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
And what if we narrow it down to population collapse as a result of emigration?
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#8I'm interested in levels of ethnic Russian emigration from the Baltics. Has this happened, and if so, how much does it contribute to this picture?
It didn't happen and it does not contribute to the picture at all. People emigrated to the west (mostly Great Britain, Ireland and Spain), including the Russian speaking part.
The jump in the graph happened when the most recent economic crisis hit Baltic countries and drove their GDP roughly 20% down in a year.
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#9This seems an overly simplistic discussion of a single chart.
Is it ethnic Russians leaving these countries?
Why the sudden drop in one year, which seems to represent a change of definitions?
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#10Forbes, yeesh. It may be trite to roll out the correlation-is-not-causation argument, but this is so incredibly blatant it turns my stomach.
The author's thesis could be summarized as: The Baltic population level has declined consistently since 1992, therefore Baltic economic policies must not be as desirable as some make them out to be.
Population migration and economic policy are two astoundingly broad topics. Any attempt to link the two requires at least some analysis of each. This article contains none.
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