For the first time in many years, Russia overtook the United States for the birth rate
For the first time in 2012, Russia, according to the American Center for Control and Prevention of Diseases, exceeded the birth rate in the United States. As Mark Adomatis notes in the article for the Forbes website, and after all, the birth rate in the United States was not so distant in the USA than in Russia, by 75%. The speed and scale of the convergence of the two countries according to this criterion is impressive, notes the publication.