Population growth is registered in Sevastopol due to the Russian elderly, Sevastopolstat informs.
In particular, according to the statistics, population size in the city increased almost by 100 thousand people within 2 years after the annexation and reached a shade over 421 thousand people as of July 1, 2016. According to the statistics service staff, migration is the main reason of population growth.
At the same time, since spring 2014, the number of working-age population increased by 1.79%, the number of retirement-age population increased by 4.25% and the population over 75 year – by 10.15% mainly due to denizens of the Russian Federation.
As the reminder, in 2016, the migration gain decreased twofold compared to 2015 in Sevastopol.
