Paul Goble
Staunton, July 3 – Moscow is celebrating a decline in the number of abortions between 2024 and 2025, the result of a government campaign to cause women to have more children, but new statistics about the situation in the country as a whole show that in some places the number of abortions actually rose while in others it increased significantly.
This diversity in outcomes is especially clear in the case of the republics of the North Caucasus, a region which is often treated as far more homogenous in terms of demographic development than it is (nemoskva.net/2026/07/03/minzdrav-chislo-abortov-v-rossii-snizilos-na-5-v-2025-godu/ and fortanga.org/2026/07/ingushetiya-i-respubliki-severnogo-kavkaza-lidiruyut-po-rostu-chisla-abortov-v-rf-minzdrav/).
There, one republic, Karachayevo-Cherkessia, showed the largest decline in the number of abortions between 2024 and 2025 with the total falling 49.6 percent, while three others, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Dagestan were among those showing the largest increases in this metric.
In North Ossetia, in contrast, the number of abortions increased by 14.6 percent; in Ingushetia, by nine percent; in Kabardino-Balkaria by five percent; and in Dagestan, by 2.0 percent.
The decline in KChR likely reflects outright falsification of the data given that republic’s history of changing its reporting in order to make it appear more in line with what Moscow wants. The increases in the other, on the other hand, almost certainly reflects the increases in the number of women in prime childbearing cohorts, given higher birthrates there earlier.
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