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Demographic Barometer

• Morbidity rate in the population of Russia, 2022-2023
  • In 2022, morbidity increased in all major classes of diseases
  • In 2022, the number of cases of temporary disability increased by 11% compared to 2021, but the number of days of temporary disability decreased by 1.6%
  • According to data for January-October 2023, the number of cases of acute respiratory viral infections decreased by 17% compared to the same period in 2022
  • The number of cases of acute intestinal infections increased by 6%, (compared to the same period in 2022)
  • The incidence of tuberculosis and HIV infection remains relatively stable
  • In 2022, the prevalence of alcoholism in Russia continued to decrease, while the prevalence of drug addiction increased slightly

Q&A

• Fewer men willing to go on maternity leave instead of their wives
• Is family happiness in the hands of the employer?
• New Year gifts and benefits for the birth of a child: how employers support employees with children
• Emigration sentiments: monitoring by VTsIOM
• Wanderlust: one in four persons surveyed plans to change their place of residence

In the vastness of Russia

• The population of Russia at the beginning of the year was 146.15 million people
• Is Russia's goal to increase the population to 600 million people?
• Natural population decline in January increased by 21.9%
• Total fertility rate in 2023 decreased to 1.41
• Decline in total fertility rate in 2023 is insignificant
• Putin gives order to provide for sustainable increase in fertility by 2030
• State Duma proposes paying student families to have children
• Life expectancy in Russia has exceeded pre-Covid levels
• Russian Federation proposes introducing target life expectancy of 60 years
• Peskov calls demographic problem Russia’s Achilles heel
• Officials in Chuvashia threaten to fine families where grandmothers look after the children
• In Tatarstan, a proposal to use teenage labor in hazardous industries
• Should suburban settlements become the main type of settlement by 2050?
• Putin orders to change approaches to migration policy in Russia
• State Duma creating working group to analyze migration legislation
• Ministry of Internal Affairs completes work on bill to tighten migration control
• At the end of 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs recorded a decrease in the number of crimes committed by foreigners
• Moscow courts have made about 42 thousand rulings on the deportation of foreigners in past year
• Migrants will again be offered targeted recruitment
• Mortality from tuberculosis in the Russian Federation has decreased sixfold over 20 years
• First-time incidence of obesity has decreased in the Russian Federation

World News

• World's population will begin to decline for the first time since the plague
• The population of the Czech Republic has grown due to migration
• India's population could top 2.2 billion by mid-century
• Ukraine's population is predicted to decline by up to 25 million people
• Sweden records lowest fertility since 1749
• By 2050, fertility in more than 75% of countries will be below replacement level
• Within a quarter of a century, 204 countries will have significantly more elderly than young people
• Ukrainians can now get married via video link
• The number of Ukrainians registered in Germany has exceeded 1.6 million
• The number of refugees from Ukraine in Lithuania has decreased to 74 thousand
• Refugees from Ukraine are offered employment in Germany without knowledge of the language
• Pakistan may begin second round of deportation of Afghan immigrants
• Finland calls refugee crisis on Finnish-Russian border long-term
• Cyprus experiencing a migration crisis
• Kazakh citizens in Russia recommended to carry their papers with them
• Tajikistan Ministry of Labor records outflow of migrants from Russian Federation after terrorist attack
• Migrant training centers will open in Tajikistan
• Dutch scientists succeed in “cutting” HIV from a human cell
• The number of deaths from tuberculosis during the pandemic turned out to be 7 thousand more than predicted
• In Germany, the number of tuberculosis patients has been increasing in recent years.
• Mongolia will pay for hepatitis D treatment of its citizens in Russia
• Young people increasingly likely to get colorectal cancer
• Taliban decides to stone women to death for treason

The newspapers write about…

• TASS on Putin's instructions to government
• Kommersant on Putin’s instructions at Interior Ministry Collegium
• Novye Izvestia, RBK and Kommersant on the tightening of immigration legislation after the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall
• Novye Izvestia, Rossiyskaya Gazet, and Kommersant on migration policy and the need for migrants
• Kommersant on mass checks of migrants
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on labor migration in Russia
• Novye Izvestia on ban on migrant labor in Russian regions
• PRUFY on outflow of youth from Bashkortostan
• RBK on problem of population outflow from Siberia
• RBK on dispute around US migration law on expulsion of migrants
• RBK on fertility at the end of 2023
• RIA Novosti on decline in the world fertility
• Novye Izvestia on sperm bank of Special Military Operation participants
• Esli byt’ tochnym and Kommersant on the growing number of children with autism
• Forbes and Izvestia on the cost of supporting large families
• Gazeta.Ru and Kommersant on the controversy surrounding return of death penalty
• TASS on limiting alcohol sales
• Kommersant on increasing the time of pregnant women in prenatal consultations
• Kommersant on the growth of the paid medical services sector
• Novye Izvestia on the shortage of emergency doctors
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the drivers of labor productivity growth
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the increased speed of filling vacancies
• Novye Izvestia on teenagers working in hazardous industries
• RBK on the contribution of human capital to the Russian economy
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the promising growth of the middle class in China

Read books and magazines

• Global Youth Tobacco Survey in the Russian Federation: 2004-2021.
• China's labor market, 1950-2050
• Forecasts of demographic development of the Republic of Uzbekistan and its regions until 2050. Basic principles, premises and results of forecasts
• Children in Azerbaijan 2023
• World mental health report
• Through the pages of the journals Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Ekonomika Regiona (Economics of the Region)
• Contents of the Journal of Demographic Economics

Profession: researcher

• "Man from the Third Billion": an evening in memory of Anatoly Grigorievich Vishnevsky
• 245th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Gompertz
• 90 years since the birth of Gerard Kahlo