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Current topic: The third age: social well-being

• The populations of different countries on the age scale

• Position on the social ladder

• Biological determinism?

• Gender differences in the aging process

• The age curve of income

• Conclusion

• Appendix

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

The aging of the world population, 2015

• Estimates of the UN’s 2015 revision confirm the acceleration of the aging of the world population in the coming decades

• An increasing proportion of the elderly population of the world is concentrated in the less developed countries

• The elderly population is aging and is predominantly female

• Of the cohort born in 1950-1955 about 40% of women and 30% of men will live to the age of 80

• Life expectancy at age 60 has exceeded 20 years

• Social transfers play a more significant role for the elderly in developed countries

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Factors of inequality at the micro level

• The “caring home”: caring for elderly relatives and problems of living together

• The attitude to aging through the prism of the attitude to death

• Potential segments of the population for expanding the customer base of commercial banks in the face of an aging population

Take care of women!

• Russia occupies 50^th place in terms of human development and 54^th in terms of gender equality

• Cash flows in EU countries are controlled by men

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural increase of the population of the Russian Federation over 10 months came to 21,100 people

• Russia is ahead of the West in the birth rate of second children

• The Kremlin says there are no plans to raise the retirement age

• Medvedev comments on the possibility of raising the retirement age

• The increase in life expectancy may affect the retirement age

• State Duma abolishes indexation of pensions for working pensioners

• In State Duma a bill is introduced to extend the maternity capital program for two years

• Families will be paid subsidies for third and subsequent children

• Ministry of Labor will consider new measures to stimulate fertility in Russia

• Nearly a third of single-parent families in Russia living in poverty

• 20% of the working age population of Russia is not officially involved in the labor market

• From those countries requiring Russian visas most often come Chinese, Germans and Americans

• Quota for foreign workers in Russia for 2016 has been decreased by 22%

• Are the number and earnings of labor migrants in Russia a clear indicator of the state of the economy?

• 250,000 illegal migrants in Crimea

• Senator wants to exempt Ukrainian migrants from Russian language exam

• Russia votes down idea of testing newlyweds for HIV

• In State Duma, a proposal to prohibit smoking for those under 21

• Russia Ministry of Health preparing law on compulsory treatment of drunk drivers

• Ministry of Health denies reports about growth of cancer mortality

• Matviyenko calls for measures to reduce the number of abortions

• Government restricts purchases of foreign drugs

• Golodets promises to deal with insurers whose mortality rate of insured persons is higher than that of the general population

• High-tech medical care will be paid for directly from the budget

• Head of the Investigative Committee speaks out in favor of death penalty

European panorama

• Population size of Ukraine for the year has decreased by 175,000 people

• The number of children in Ukraine is decreasing catastrophically

• In Kirgizia the number of births has increased

• Maternal mortality remains high in Kirgizia

• Infant mortality has been halved in Kazakhstan

• There is an economic need to increase the retirement age in Belarus

• Ukraine preparing for social security reform

• Russia and Belarus share 50^th place in the Human Development Index ranking

• Moldova in 107^th place on the Human Development Index

• The death of every third child in Tajikistan occurs due to malnutrition

• Every third divorce in Minsk occurs in the first four years of marriage

• Kazakhstan takes 42^nd place in gender equality rating

• Starting in 2017, professional technical education in Kazakhstan will be free for all

• Kirgizia experiencing a shortage of professional staff

• Almost half of job seekers in Bishkek have higher education

• Uzbekistan has approved creation of jobs for returnees from the Russian Federation

• In Moldova, 6 applicants for every job opening

• Agreement on simplifying visa regime between EU and Belarus has been signed

• Will Ukrainians and Georgians soon be able to travel to the EU without a visa?

• Migrant workers from Kirgizia will be able to get new passports only at home

• Turchinov predicts exodus of Ukrainian workers from Russia

• Over 150,000 Ukrainians have arrived in Belarus since the beginning of the conflict

• Has migration to Russia become prestigious from Tajiks?

• Belarusians won’t have to take Russian language exam

• Refugees in Belarus will be provided the same rights to medical services as citizens

• Labor migrants in Kazakhstan will be given help in treating tuberculosis

• A quarter of people living with HIV in Uzbekistan are migrant workers

• Uzbekistan has reduced mortality from myocardial infarction by 10%

• UNICEF calls on Kirgiz government to ratify Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• CIS experts agree on draft program of cooperation in the treatment of diabetes

World news

• Foreigners represent 6% of Finland’s population

• Japanese Prime Minister explains why Japanese live so long

• Mortality in Bulgaria is the highest in the EU

• In Latvia neonatal mortality continues to decrease

• Two is the ideal number of children in a Latvian family

• Heads of state grow old and die earlier than ordinary citizens

• Is Great Britain no longer a Christian country?

• The “middle class” in the USA no longer represents the majority of the population

• Court allows Japanese women to get married right after divorce

• Lithuanians will be able to get married through social network

• For modern women a registered marriage is equivalent to cohabitation

• Finland preparing for radical reform of social benefits

• Two thirds of British workers are planning to stay at their jobs after age 65

• Latvia has begun construction of a wall on its Russian border

• Arab countries have the highest proportion of migrant workers on the labor market

• By the end of December the number of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe by sea could reach a million

• Nearly a million people are expecting or have already received refugee status in Germany

• EU summit to discuss “trial period” for migrants

• Cameron will not back down on tightening benefit payments to migrants for the sake of the EU

• As of September Britain has received over a thousand migrants from Syria

• Merkel not ready to limit the flow of refugees

• Siemens has promised to train migrants who coming to Germany

• According to Merkel, multiculturalism is a fraud

• The number of Cuban migrants in Costa Rica has reached 5,000

• In the USA the annual incidence of HIV has decreased by 19%

• WHO calls for fight against foodborne disease

• The decriminalization of abortion in Northern Ireland may be subject to a referendum

• In Italy, the highest rate of sudden deaths is due to air pollution

• A vaccine has been invented against dengue fever

The newspapers write about…

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on aging and demographic waves

• “Lenta.ru” on a new benchmark for pension reform

• “Kommersant” and “RBK” on campaigning for raising the retirement age

• “Novaya gazeta” and “Lenta.ru” on demographics and terrorism

• “The Wall Street Journal” on demographics and the global economy

• “Ogonyok” on human development and the crisis

• “Economy Times” on “passive adaptation” to the crisis

• “Economy Times” on inequality and the crisis

• “Kommersant” and “Kommersant-Dengi” on the shrinking middle class

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on the budget deficit in Russian medicine

• “Gazeta.ru” on saving money on health care

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on problems with health insurance

• “Novye Izvestiya” and “Novaya gazeta” on fictive medical services

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the dangers of import drug substitutions

• “Novye izvestiya” on the problems of HIV and reduced funding

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on a study of HIV-positive women

• “Izvestiya” on premarital HIV testing

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on where Russians travel for treatment

• “Paruskg.info” on health care problems in Turkmenistan

• “SwissInfo” on the Nobel Prize in Medicine

• “Project Syndicate” on inequality and mortality

• “RIA FAN” on raising the drinking age

• “Vedomosti” and “Haqqin.az” on the outflow of migrants from Russia

• “Foreign Policy” on Chinese student migration

• “Kommersant” on irresponsible Russian students

• “Apostrof” on emigration from Ukraine

• “Moldavskie vedomosti” on the Moldovan diaspora in Russia

• “Lenta.ru” on the outflow of refugees from Austria

• “Paruskg.info” on restricting the departure of recruits from Kirgizia

• “Kommersant” on prolonging the maternity capital

• “Argumenty i Fakty” on a World Russian Council

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on a possible lowering of the marriage age in Bashkortostan

• “Novaya gazeta” on female crime

• “Atlatico” on women in the army and a reduction in its effectiveness

• “Economy Times” on a regional view of the crisis

• “Kommersant” and “Polit.ru” on misconceptions of Russians about social phenomena

Read books and magazines

• The population of Russia 2013

• The population of modern Russia: reproduction and development

• Malignancies in Russia. A review of statistical information for the years 1993-2013

• Public health aspects of migrant health: a review of the evidence on health status for labour migrants in the European Region

• Labor migration, remittances and human development in Central Asia

• Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoe obozrenie” (“Demographic Review”) and “Regionalnye issledovaniya” (“Regional Studies”)

• Contents of “Population and Environment”

The reading room

• The population of Russia 2013

Demographic digest

• Internal displacement and the Syrian crisis: an analysis of trends from 2011–2014

• The impact of Syrian refugees on the labor market in neighboring countries: empirical evidence from Jordan

• Educational Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Turkey

• Perceptions and newspaper coverage of Syrian refugees in Turkey

• Measuring impact and the most influential works in Migration Studies

Profession: researcher

• Round table “Demographic policy: expectations, results, prospects”. Meeting of the Demography section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Happy birthday to Tatyana Leonidovna Kharkova

• In memory of Igor Vasilyevich Bestuzhev-Lada

• The essential publications of Igor Vasilyevich Bestuzhev-Lada

Satirical article

• Father Frost and Pension. A Christmas Tale