Explanation: The population of Russia is Shrinking by about 750,000 per year. This is because of Low birth rates and abnormally high death rates. The overall life expectancy in Russia at birth is 72.4 years (66.9 years for males and 77.6 years for females).
In the Arab world, enslaved people were often European. Roughly 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured between the 16th and 19th centuries by Barbary corsairs and sold as slaves.
