AHC: Russian Population Matches US Population

Off topic but the collapse in the Irish birth rate post famine and the incredibly low (for the era) French birthrates really stand out.

Mostly because of the large scale emigration rate from Ireland of child-bearing age women during this period. Ireland was one of the few countries where slightly more women emigrated. For ethnic groups immigrating to the US between 1900 and 1910, women constituted 52.1% of all Irish immigrants. Compare this with 35.1% rate for all groups. The largest number of these women listed their profession as domestic servants, and the vast majority were of childbearing age. The only other groups to approach this parity were Jews with 43.4% of their immigrants being women.

At the other end of the spectrum for European immigrants from Bulgarians, Serbs, Montenegrins where women were a mere 4.3% of immigrants. Next were Greeks with 4.9%, Dalmatians, Bosnians and Herzegovenians with 7.7% being women, and Romanians 9%. A low number of women indicated a high number of temporary migrants. Consequently ethnic groups with a more even sex ratio (and higher numbers of young children), the more likely they were to remain permanently in their host countries. As a result, the Jews and Irish did have the lowest rate of return amongst ethnic groups.

As for France they were a unique case where their birth rate was already as low as 25 per 1,000 in 1881. They were the earliest country to experience a demographic transition, early in the 19th century. In addition, France had a very low rate of emigration, relying instead of large numbers of seasonal workers from Italy, Poland and Spain by 1914.
 
Mostly because of the large scale emigration rate from Ireland of child-bearing age women during this period. Ireland was one of the few countries where slightly more women emigrated. For ethnic groups immigrating to the US between 1900 and 1910, women constituted 52.1% of all Irish immigrants. Compare this with 35.1% rate for all groups. The largest number of these women listed their profession as domestic servants, and the vast majority were of childbearing age. The only other groups to approach this parity were Jews with 43.4% of their immigrants being women.

At the other end of the spectrum for European immigrants from Bulgarians, Serbs, Montenegrins where women were a mere 4.3% of immigrants. Next were Greeks with 4.9%, Dalmatians, Bosnians and Herzegovenians with 7.7% being women, and Romanians 9%. A low number of women indicated a high number of temporary migrants. Consequently ethnic groups with a more even sex ratio (and higher numbers of young children), the more likely they were to remain permanently in their host countries. As a result, the Jews and Irish did have the lowest rate of return amongst ethnic groups.

I think that's partly motivated by circumstances though. If you were a single Irish man looking to go away for a few years, earn some money and then go home you probably wouldn't bother with New York, you'd go to London or Liverpool while the migrants to the US/Australia/Canada tended to be family groups and they are much less likely to return home.
 
I think someone did a bit of a TL about this once, but have the guy who assassinated Pyotr Stolypin instead assassinate the Tsar in 1911; Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich is named co-regent for the new young tsar, along with the boy's mother. However, generally disinterested in politics and the administration of the state, the two regents appoint Stolypin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (this would be his second term), and as they retreat into high society, Stolypin increasingly finds himself able to enact his own personal will on the country. Under Stolypin, Russia withdraws from international politics into a sort of Glorious Isolation of its own, repairing relations with the *Central Powers but not creating the monolithic Entente of OTL. Russia is therefore able to avoid the disastrous Serbian War, in which France is again humiliated at the hands of the Germans, and Serbia annexed by Austria-Hungay. A massive demographic shift takes place throughout the 1910s as Stolypin's Siberian colonization policies begin to bear fruit. By 1930, Siberia's population is more than three times that of OTL, and Russia's population overall is already twice what it was in 1930. After Stolypin's death in 1935 and the coming of the young Tsar into his own, Alexei, as a student and admirer of Stolypin in his latter years, continues his policies; he is extremely harsh on dissent, creating a finely-tuned internal security service to hunt down would-be revolutionaries, but continues the creation of a powerful rural middle class dependent on the imperial state. At the same time, Russia's cities are growing at an incredible rate. St. Petersburg has twice the population of London in 1960. By 2014, though a slowing birth rate and growing immigration has near-stopped growth, Russia boasts an impressive 450 million in population, while with a much higher population in Siberia, Russian resources are more efficiently exploited. Imperial Russia is easily one of the world's strongest economies and strongest nations.

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Any chance that you remember the TL?
 
I can't for the life of me remember the title or the name of the author. I'll look around and let you know if I do, yeah? To be honest, I might write one myself...
 
I think someone did a bit of a TL about this once, but have the guy who assassinated Pyotr Stolypin instead assassinate the Tsar in 1911; Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich is named co-regent for the new young tsar, along with the boy's mother. However, generally disinterested in politics and the administration of the state, the two regents appoint Stolypin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (this would be his second term), and as they retreat into high society, Stolypin increasingly finds himself able to enact his own personal will on the country. Under Stolypin, Russia withdraws from international politics into a sort of Glorious Isolation of its own, repairing relations with the *Central Powers but not creating the monolithic Entente of OTL. Russia is therefore able to avoid the disastrous Serbian War, in which France is again humiliated at the hands of the Germans, and Serbia annexed by Austria-Hungay. A massive demographic shift takes place throughout the 1910s as Stolypin's Siberian colonization policies begin to bear fruit. By 1930, Siberia's population is more than three times that of OTL, and Russia's population overall is already twice what it was in 1930. After Stolypin's death in 1935 and the coming of the young Tsar into his own, Alexei, as a student and admirer of Stolypin in his latter years, continues his policies; he is extremely harsh on dissent, creating a finely-tuned internal security service to hunt down would-be revolutionaries, but continues the creation of a powerful rural middle class dependent on the imperial state. At the same time, Russia's cities are growing at an incredible rate. St. Petersburg has twice the population of London in 1960. By 2014, though a slowing birth rate and growing immigration has near-stopped growth, Russia boasts an impressive 450 million in population, while with a much higher population in Siberia, Russian resources are more efficiently exploited. Imperial Russia is easily one of the world's strongest economies and strongest nations.

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Do you have a link of the timeline?

How much of a world power is Russia compared to others such as the United States?
 
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