That first statistic, that it swiped right 353 times and got to talk to 160 women, is completely insane. I mean, that’s almost a 50% match rate, whereas estimates in general are 4% to 14%.
Given Russia’s fucked-up gender ratio (2.5 single women for every single man), I don’t think it’s that unreasonable!
Generally, the achievement of “guy finds a woman willing to accept a proposal” impresses me far less in Russia than it would in the USA. Let’s see if this replicates in a competitive dating pool.
The WWII generation is negligible in 2024. The actual effect is partly the inverted demographic pyramid (older population means more women than men even under normal circumstances), and partly that even young Russian men die horrifically often:
And for that, a major culprit is alcohol (leading to accidents and violence, but also literally drinking oneself to death).
Among the men who don’t self-destruct, I imagine a large fraction have already been taken, meaning that the gender ratio among singles has to be off the charts.