Smolny has already prepared draft amendments to the city's development strategy to increase the city's population by 170,000 compared to the 2024 target. Moreover, as the press service noted, last year's population was already almost 200,000 higher than planned.
Over the past five years, the city's birth rate has declined slightly—from 1.35 to 1.25 children per woman. But officials want to reverse this trend and increase it to 1.5 children per woman by 2035. Furthermore, the administration plans to carefully manage migration to gradually but steadily increase the city's population, rosbalt.ru reports.
It's worth noting that in St. Petersburg, the number of large families (about 64,500) and single-parent families (60,000) is almost equal. These facts were announced by Elena Fidrikova, head of the Social Policy Committee.
It was previously announced that social support for St. Petersburg residents will exceed 5 trillion rubles for the first time.