State support measures to improve the demographic situation: views of student youth

Background. The negative demographic situation in Russia caused by the low birth rate gives rise to serious personnel problems. Measures aimed at stimulating the birth rate taken by the state do not bring the desired result. The purpose of the study is to identify the attitudes of student youth regarding the desire to have children, their number, opinions on the effectiveness of state measures to support families with children. Materials and methods. The study of the demographic situation in Russia and Penza region, as well as the attitude of young people to the unfavorable demographic situation and ways to overcome it, is based on a secondary analysis of data from all-Russian studies and the results of the au-thorʼs study conducted among student youth of Penza in 2024. Results. An analysis of the demographic situation in Russia and the Penza region was carried out. Based on the au-thorʼs study, the main factors influencing the planning of the number of children in the future; the level of satisfaction with the measures taken by the state to support families with children. Conclusions. Based on the fact that the overwhelming majority of young people participating in the survey plan to have only one or two children in the future, and also taking into account the long-term demographic forecast of Rosstat, there will be no fundamental change in the current demographic situation in the near future.