Russia Could Pay Students Who Have a Child, Amid Birth Rate Crisis
The current Russian birth rate is 1.5 children per woman, compared with 1.8 per woman in the U.S. A birth rate of 2.1 is needed to sustain a population. The compensation for having a child differs in various Russian regions, with the payment for giving birth to one child as high as £8,500 (nearly $11,000) for a firstborn in the city of Chelyabinsk.