Ways to improve Russia’s state migration policy, taking into account the current demographic situation in the country

The article analyzes new approaches to the implementation of Russia’s state migration policy during its demographic reform, which is associated with population decline and aging, leading to an imbalance in the labor market, a slowdown in economic growth, and a threat to the country’s national security. The global demographic situation is such that today, about a quarter of the world’s population lives in countries where population growth has stopped. In recent years, birth rates have decreased in almost all regions of the world, including Russia. Russia faces the challenge of overcoming the demographic crisis, achieving sustainable demographic growth, and improving the quality of its human capital. Russia’s state migration policy, as a tool for demographic development, contributes to partially compensating for the c As a result, a set of measures for Russia’s state migration policy is proposed to address economic challenges and ensure that priority sectors of the Russian economy are staffed by foreign workers during the period of continued shortage of national labor resources, recognizing that natural population growth should remain the primary source of replenishing Russia’s population and providing it with labor resources. country’s population decline, maintaining its age structure, and meeting the labor market’s demand for workers.

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