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Current topic: Life expectancy in Russia: restorative growth

• If the population didn’t grow old…

• Life expectancy has been increasing since 2003

• Increased life expectancy comes from children and the elderly

• Life expectancy and causes of death

• The influence of alcohol on mortality is weakening but not gone

• Instead of a conclusion: the increase in life expectancy was of a restorative nature

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

Mortality in the EU-28, 2002-2012

• Over the past 10 years, mortality in the EU-28 decreased in all age groups: the proportion of those living to age 85 increased from 36 to 44%

• The proportion of deaths from diseases of the circulatory system has dropped to 38%, but from cancer has risen to 26%

• The standardized mortality rate from cardiovascular diseases has decreased by 26%, from neoplasms - 8%

• Among those dying from diseases of the circulatory system, one in ten was younger than 65; among those dying of tumours, one in four

• Mortality from lung cancer is increasing, while cancer of the colon and rectum is decreasing

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The World Order through the prism of gerontology

• The quality of statistical data on causes of death in the Russian Federation

• A modification of the primary cause of death from diseases of the circulatory system

• Inaccessible happiness: what survey data say about the health of the Russian population

• Life expectancy of Australian men will exceed 80 years

Q&A

• Russians afraid of unemployment

• Most Russians for selling alcohol only to those over 21 years of age

• Regulating the circulation  of tobacco products and smoking

• The level of tolerance in Russia: going up, or down?

In the vastness of Russia

• The population of the Russian Federation, including Crimea and Sevastopol, will surpass 146 million people in 2014

• Life expectancy of Russians is 71.6 years

• The fate of 2 million citizens of the USSR and the Russian Federation missing in the wars of the 20^th and 21^st centuries is unknown

• In Moscow live 1.2 million people with disabilities

• Presidents proposes to extend “Accessible Environment” program to 2020

• Legislation introduced making discrimination based on disabilities inadmissible

• 15.7 million people in Russia below the poverty line

• The government will consider the issue of additional indexation of social payments

• Pensions in 2015 will be fully indexed

• Putin urges control of prices on drugs and food

• President demands elimination of discrimination against the non-state sector in the social sphere

• Maternity capital in the Crimea will be paid in full

• Problem with places in kindergartens for children 3-7 years old will be solved in 2015

• In Russia certification centers will be created for the assessment of the qualifications of workers

• State Duma introduces subsidies to employers to attract workers from Russia’s regions

• Ministry of Labor plans to bring unemployment compensation up to subsistence level in 2016

• Unemployment in October grew to 5.1%

• Unemployment level in Moscow remains one of the lowest in the Russian Federation

• The number of unemployed in the Crimea in February decreased by 20%

• 43 thousand people already fined for not declaring dual citizenship

• Over past year FMS unregistered 96 thousand people registered in “rubber apartments”

• Russian government proposes to limit quota for foreign labor in some sectors

• Patents for migrants working for individuals brought over 31 billion rubles into the budget

• More than 245 thousand citizens of Ukraine have applied for temporary asylum in Russia

• In Russia an “unprecedentedly liberal regime” created for letting forced migrants from Ukraine stay

• More than 35.5 thousand Ukrainian refugees remain in temporary accommodation centers in Russia

• FMS proposes to reduce the time needed to obtain refugee status and asylum in Russia

• In Russia, a two-fold reduction in the number of migrants using false documents

• Sobyanin opens new migrant detention centers

• Migrant workers in Russia will be eligible for sick leave

• Ministry of Labor intends to protect foreign workers from speculators and slavery

• The number of reported HIV cases in Russia could reach 1 million by the end of 2015

• Russia leads the world in the prevention of HIV infection of children

• HIV incidence in Moscow increased by 3.8% in 2014

• No HIV vaccine in the near future

• Putin proposes to declare 2015 the year of combating cardiovascular disease

• Insured medicine in Russia did not work after all

• Program of state guaranteed free medical care has been approved

• Federal center does not intend to interfere in Moscow health care reform

• State Duma promises that by 2018 90% of drugs will be Russian

• Russia warming up 2.5 times faster than the rest of the world

Eurasian panorama

• Will average life expectancy in Belarus grow to 77 years by 2030?

• 16% of children in Azerbaijan are born out of wedlock

• Kirgizia no longer considered a poor country by World Bank

• Salaries of Minsk residents are the highest in Belarus

• Kirgizia must improve living conditions of mothers and children from poor families

• Ukraine and Lithuania are working to solve  problems of recalculation of work pensions in each other’s country

• CE Venice Commission will assess the law on lustration in Ukraine

• Russia will help Ukraine within the framework of the World Food Program

• UN to provide food aid to 120,000 residents of eastern Ukraine

• Around 400 thousand jobs to be created for migrants returning to Uzbekistan

• South Ossetia has offered to enter into an agreement with Russia on dual citizenship

• Passport regime between Russia and Ukraine will not change

• Tajik migrants will be able to get foreign travel passport without leaving the Russian Federation

• Russia and Uzbekistan will sign an agreement on labor migration

• In Ukraine the number of internally displaced persons is approaching 500 thousand

• Migration from Ukraine to Belarus has doubled

• More and more Ukrainians becoming legal and illegal migrants in the European Union

• Russian authorities give migration amnesty to 3999 Moldovan illegals

• The volume of remittances from migrant workers in Moldova has begun to decline

• Poland currently not accepting refugees from Ukraine

• Gagauz complain of discrimination in Moldova

• Uzbekistan announces increase in number of HIV cases among migrant workers

• HIV-infected minors who are citizens of Uzbekistan will receive benefits

World news

• Lithuanians unhappy over Eurostat forecast of a decrease in their population

• Is the enemy of fertility in Latvia social fear?

• Latvia loses 80 million euros in taxes due to premature mortality

• Within 25 years the population of Narva, Estonia will have decreased by a third

• The number of Latvian orphans adopted by foreigners has increased significantly

• Average salary in Lithuania increased in the third quarter

• Minimum wage in Bulgaria may be frozen

• PACE advocates solving the problem of finding jobs for disabled persons

• Unemployment in EU in October remained at 11.5%

• Unemployment in Italy is 13.2%

• Italian Chamber of Deputies approves reform of labor laws

• Turkey tightens conditions for obtaining citizenship

• Inhabitants of rich EU countries are opposed to benefits for new immigrants

• Children of immigrants from Central America will be able to move in with their parents in the USA

• Seventeen US states file lawsuit against President Obama’s immigration reform

• Republicans plan to prevent Obama’s immigration reform

• The number of Syrians in need of assistance has exceeded 12 million people

• In UK about 13 thousand slaves

• In Iraq more than 1.2 thousand people killed in November

• December 1 is World AIDS Day

• Eastern Europe is one of the most troubled regions in terms of AIDS

• The number of HIV infections in Europe and Central Asia increased by 80% over 10 years

• In Latvia, 200 new cases of HIV every year

• Number of smokers in the US falls to a record low

• In Lithuania, a third of the population smokes

• The number of Ebola victims has surpassed 6,000 people

• In U.S., Republicans challenge a number of provisions of law on health care reform

• Finnish Parliament approves initiative to permit same-sex marriage

• Will 2014 be the hottest in the last 135 years?

The newspapers write about

• “Vedomosti” and “Gazeta.ru” on demographic motives in the President’s Address

• “Utro.ru” on Russia’s demographic future

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the socio-demographic meeting of the All-Russia People’s Front

• “Novaya gazeta” on the future of funding of population policy

• “Kommersant” on a preschooler certificate

• “Kommersant’ on the reduction of hospital beds

• “Mednovosti.ru” on “optimizing” maternity hospitals

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on maternal mortality in Kirgizia

• “Slovo.kg” on reproductive health in Kirgizia

• “Bolshoi gorod” on the HIV situation in Russia and Europe

• “Novye izvestiya” on the HIV/AIDS situation in Moscow

• “Fakty” on the HIV problem in Ukraine

• “Kommersant” on the lack of medicines for those infected with HIV

• “BBCRussian.com” on the weakening of HIV

• “Kommersant” on the reduction of the proportion of smokers in the USA

• “Forbes.Ru” on migration and the labor market

• “Kommersant” on sectoral restrictions for migrants

• “Novye izvestiya” and “Kommersant” on patents for migrant workers

• “BBCRussian.com” and “The New York Times” on immigration reform in the USA

• “Kommersant” on the reform of social support for migrants in the UK

• “The Guardian” on the UK’s immigration problem

• “Kommersant” on reforming the institution of asylum in Russia

• “Novye izvestiya” on Russia’s sending back North Korean refugees

• “Zerkalo nedeli” on dual citizenship in Ukraine

• “Kommersant” on the patriotism of Russian emigrants

• “Novye izvestiya” and “Kommersant-Dengi” on poverty

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the economics of slavery in America

• “Vedomosti” on the problem of global warming

• “Atlantico” on kidults

Read books and magazines

• Global Report on Drowning: Preventing A Leading Killer

• Population Ageing in Europe

• WHO methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy

• Lithuania.  Health Systems in Transition

• Unplanned suburbs: rural-urban migration and the growth of Ulan-Ude in the post-Soviet period

• Through the pages of the magazines “Demograficheskoe obozrenie” (“Demographic Review”) and “Ekonomika i organizatsiya promyshlenovo proizvodstva (EKO)” (“Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (IVF)”)

• Contents of the “Population Bulletin”

Profession: researcher

• Demographic results of 2013.  Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• 95 years since the death of M.I. Kulisher (1847-1919)

New in the reading room

• Changes in compulsory social insurance in the case of temporary disability and maternity (Federal law №407)

• Changes in the regulation of employee labor – foreign nationals or stateless persons (Federal law №409)

• M.I. Kulisher.  Mechanical foundations of the movement of the masses