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Current topic: A portrait of Russia’s elderly population

• On the threshold of retirement age

• The elderly becoming more numerous, but still fairly young for now

• Gender disparities remain but are weakening

• Among the elderly there are still more widows than widowers, but  the proportion of widowers is growing

• Elderly persons not living with relatives: the pros and cons of autonomy

• The elderly becoming more educated

• They’re working more and relying less on income from personal subsidiary plot

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

The elderly in the USA

• In the USA 40.3 million people are 65 or over, and the number will double in the next few decades

• Those living to age 65 can expect to live on average another 19.2 years; those living to age 85, another 6.6 years

• The proportion of elderly Americans living in nursing homes is decreasing

• In the 2000s the economic activeness of Americans 65 and over increased

• The proportion of people 65 and older with income below the poverty line is 9% - 2.5 times lower than among the population under 25 and lower than in all age groups from age 25 to 64

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The consequences of demographic aging for the pension system in the medium term: the experience of forecasting for Russia

• Disputes over aging: anti-aging science and the cultural construction of old age

• Once upon a time there lived an old man and woman… The experience of comparative analysis of the contemporary culture of old age in Russia and China against the background of globalization

• The Russian population in times of economic hardship: the limits of adaptability

• The economic impact of aging in Germany

Take care of women!

• HIV/AIDS in Europe - 2013

In the vastness of Russia

• Average life expectancy of Russians has surpassed 71 years of age

• St. Petersburg families have begun having more children

• Altai Republic: the most rural region of Russia at the end of 2014

• Russia developing a conception of Far East demographic policy

• A retirement account will be automatically assigned to Russians at birth

• Russian pensions to increase by 11.4% as of February 1

• One in five Russians may be left without the insured part of their pension

• No decision on year-long extension of the moratorium on the funded part of pensions

• Russia has the reserves to meet its social obligations

• Russians will be able to receive one-time  payments  from maternity capital

• Government will limit manipulations with the maternity capital

• The number of children taken from their families has gone down by 30% in past 5 years

• Medvedev urges regional leaders to pay special attention to the situation in the labor market

• Regions to be given over 50 billion rubles for the organization of temporary employment of laid-off persons

• The number of unemployed Russians does not exceed last year’s level

• Russian authorities will do everything to prevent the growth of unemployment

• The Pubic Chamber has proposed a series of measures to curb unemployment during the crisis

• In the North Caucasus unemployment has been halved over last 5 years

• Ukrainian citizens’ stay on the territory of Russia will be prolonged

• In Russia, pension rights of migrants beginning to take shape

• In Russia there are about 3.76 million migrants from Central Asia

• Migrant workers will return to Russia “in a month or two”

• Will St. Petersburg lose up to 20% of its migrant workers?

• The farther from Moscow, the fewer the migrant workers

• Over 106,000 compatriots moved to Russia in 2014

• Settlers from the Donbass seeking temporary asylum in Russia can work without a license

• Authorities of the Rostov region will open two new points of temporary accommodation for refugees from Ukraine

• HIV-infected refugees from Ukraine have been allowed to remain on the territory of Russia

• UN criticizes closure of methadone program in the Crimea

• Russia must halve its mortality from cardiovascular disease

• The number of children with cancer has increased by 20% in 30 years

• Mizulina proposes to introduce licensing of abortions

• Head of Russian Orthodox Church denounces surrogacy and proposes to exclude abortion from the system of Mandatory Medical Insurance

Eurasian panorama

• 5,187 people have died in the conflict in Ukraine

• Ukraine faces large demographic problems

• The population of Belarus on January 1, 2015 was 9.481 million people

• 165,398 children were born in Kirgizia in 2014

• In Armenia live 37 survivors of 1915 genocide

• Transnistria plans to conduct census

• Gagauzia, not trusting Moldovan census, plans to conduct its own

• Level of poverty in Tajikistan shrank in 2014 by 3.6%

• Real wages in Belarus for 2014 grew by 0.3%

• Growth of real wages in Azerbaijan for the year came to no less than 3.9%

• Azerbaijan has indexed insured part of pensions

• Over 300 thousand residents of Lugansk region have received pensions and social benefits

• In Kirgizia, about 150 thousand people annually entering the labor market

• President of Georgia declares 2015 Women’s Year

• Transnistria parliament refuses to tighten conditions for obtaining citizenship of the Moldovan Transnistrian Republic

• In past 24 years about a million Oralmans have been repatriated to Kazakhstan

• Kazakhstan intends to bring its scientists home

• Kiev’s non-payment of social benefits in the Donbass is leading to a growth in the number of displaced persons

• In Ukraine over 1.5 million people have left their homes due to conflict in the east

• Tajikistan to develop new law on labor migration

• Armenia trying to help its migrants who have been barred entry to Russia

• In Kirgizia, 92 minors have died from violence since 2006

• WHO experts endorse measures taken in Kirgizia against measles

World news

• Estonian population continues to decline

• By 2031 more than half the population of London will be immigrants

• By 2016 50% of global wealth will belong to 1% of the world’s population

• 42% of Latvia’s residents are not always able to make ends meet

• Starting in March, Lithuania to raise salaries of its lowest paid citizens

• Average salary in Montenegro is 484 euros

• 25% of Estonian children living with a single parent

• In France has arisen a system of social segregation based on territory and ethnicity

• In the past 15 years Swiss industry has lost nearly 163 thousand jobs

• Finland’s Russian-speaking minority has a hard time finding skilled work

• By 2019 the number of unemployed in the world will grow to 212 million people

• Latvia begins issuing new model of passports

• One third of Lithuanians indicate ethnic affiliation in passport

• Canada launches program to grant citizenship to foreign investors

• Estonian parliament simplifies citizenship procedure for children of non-citizens

• US and Cuba discuss immigration issues

• Latvia launches youth re-emigration program

• One-third of Latvia residents who have emigrated abroad do not plan to return

• Warsaw ready to evacuate ethnic Poles from Mariupol

• Turkey opens new camp for Syrian refugees

• In Bulgaria, two-thirds of funds allocated for integration of refugees are missing

• The number of Ebola victims in West Africa has surpassed 8,500 people

• In Mali, Ebola epidemic is over

• WHO will discuss world’s readiness to confront epidemics

• Fight against non-communicable diseases worldwide requires $11.2 billion annually

• Lithuania opens Office for Suicide Prevention

• British announce possibility of creating genetically modified children

• US Supreme Court will consider constitutionality of same-sex marriage

The newspapers write about…

• “RBK” on a possible raising of the retirement age

• ‘Kommersant-Vlast” on the creation of the pension system in Russia

• “Kommersant” on calculating funded pensions for men and women

• “Vedomosti” on a “silver university”

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on global trends in employment

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta”, “Opec.ru” and “Vedomosti” on the crisis and the labor market

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the impact of the crisis on the Moscow labor market

• “Gazeta.ru” on regional labor markets

• “Vedomosti” on the middle class in the crisis

• “UzDaily.uz” on the standard of living in Uzbekistan

• “Oxfam” on inequality in the world

• “FINANCE.UA” on the population of China

• “Vesti.Iv” on the demographic anti-record in Latvia

• “Telegraph” on emigration from Latvia

• “Obozrevatel.com” on the demographic situation in Ukraine

• “Kommersant” on demographic problems and migration in Germany

• “Kommersant” on a new wave of asylum applications in Russia

• “Gazeta.ru” on the departure of migrants from Russia

• “The Guardian” on the impact of the Russian crisis on the economies of countries dependent on migrant remittances

• “Novye izvestiya”  on obliging tourists to indicate their itinerary in Russia

• “FINANCE.UA” on making immigrants to Belgium pay a fee

• “Opec.ru” on student migration

• “Ekspert” on multiculturalism and the glut of the middle class

• “Vedomosti” on the views of Marine Le Pen on France’s immigration problem

• “La Republica” on the French suburbs

• “Novye izvestiya” on Muslim women and headscarves in Mordovia

• “Sovietskaya Belorussiya” on stateless persons

• “Kommersant” on surcharges for free medicine

• “Novye izvestiya” on the growth of mortality among drug addicts in the Crimea

• “Paruskg.info” on refusing vaccinations for religious reasons in Kirgizia

• “Vesti.md” on selective abortions in India

• “Wonderzine.com” on the amorality of banning free abortions

• “Vedomosti” on Russia’s poorest cities

• “Russkiy reporter” on the future of cities and controlling evolution

• “American Thinker” on race and racial differences

Read books and newspapers

• Demographic Yearbook of Russia. 2014

• 2013 United Nations Demographic Yearbook

• Demographic Yearbook of Kazakhstan

• Italy.  Health systems in transition

• World population in 2014

• Through the pages of the magazines “Gigiena i sanitariya” (“Hygiene and Sanitation”) and “Aktualnye problemy Evropy” (“Pressing problems of Europe”)

• Contents of the journal «International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health»

Profession: researcher

• Socio-demographic features of households in the 19th century.  Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• 145 years since the birth of Sergei Mikhailovich Bogoslovsky