Demographer declared children most profitable investment in economy

Children are the most profitable investments in the country’s economy, told Lente.ru Demographer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of Demography, Migration and Regional Development, Yuri Krupnov.

The country needs children, and do not look at them from the point of view of infinite irrevocable costs, but to go to an investment and economic look, the demographer noted. “The better the child is raised, the better education he has, the more he will contribute to GDP. This is an absolutely investment format, when investing in children, on average estimates, we get 5 million dollars of net profit from each child,” the largests emphasized .

Also, according to the demographer, now there would be no conversation about the lack of workers’ hands and the fall in the number of economically occupied population, if 20-30 years ago, a sufficient number of children was born.

According to him, if the situation with demographics in the near future will not change the radically, by the end of the century, only half of the population of Russia will remain. “That is, conditionally, 70 million per seventh of the world sushi – for Russia, this means that we simply cease to exist, this is the problem of security, survival of the people and us, as civilizations,” sat down.

Previously, the State Duma Deputy Ivan Sukharev proposed to provide large-owned parents engaged in housework, labor experience and average for the region wages.

/Media reports.