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Russian demographic barometer

· Morbidity in Russia, 2017-2018

• Incidence of diseases of the circulatory, endocrine and respiratory systems continues to grow.

• In 2018, the incidence of acute respiratory viral infections and flu decreased, but the incidence of acute intestinal infections increased.

• The incidence of active tuberculosis continues to decline, the incidence of HIV infection is relatively stable

• The incidence of alcoholism and drug addiction continues to decline.

• More than 18,000 people died in road accidents in 2018, about 214,000 were injured

• The number of workplace injuries is decreasing

Q&A

• Gender equality in Russia: an ideal or a false goal?

• Flu and ARVI: how to defeat a pandemic?

• How we sleep

• Euthanasia: Pros and Cons

In the vastness of Russia

• Life expectancy in Russia has reached 73 years

• Russia's population is aging faster than world average

• About 40% of deaths in Russia could be prevented

• Male mortality in 5 years should decrease to 530 per 100,000 people

• Rosstat discovers reasons for having a second child

• Russia’s highest divorce rates are on Sakhalin and in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District

• Ministry of Labor to prepare a number of projects in the field of demographic development

• Topilin does not rule out new measures to support fertility

• Putin guarantees financial support for the Far Eastern Federal District to improve the demographic situation.

• Will giving people “Far East status” help the Far East?

• Rosstat will calculate income and expenses of Russians in a new way

• Will the number of poor in Russia be halved within six years?

• Russia to give poor families child allowances

• Ministry of Labor promises to look into child payments for unmarried women

• Putin signs law on alimony for pre-pensioners

• Ministry of Labor proposes to calculate pensions based on life expectancy forecast.

• Russian Pension Fund names recipients of two pensions

• Maternity capital program may be extended

• The number of large families in Moscow has doubled

• Registries of persons in need of long-term care will appear in all regions of Russia

• Is there equality between men and women in Russia?

• Large-scale civil service reform will begin next year.

• Ministry of Labor plans to increase the working day of rural workers

• Informal employment has increased in Russia

• Will Russia attract 5-10 million new citizens?

• More than 130,000 Crimeans have received Ukrainian foreign travel passports

• Russian Federation announces new "migration amnesty" for citizens of Kirgizia

• Ministry of Health supports idea of removing alcohol from open shelves in stores

• Ministry of Health preparing ban on sale of strong alcohol to persons under 21

• Nearly one in three Russians smokes

• Russia leads in terms of reducing mortality from tuberculosis

• In 2018, 628 children died on the roads in Russia

• Rosstat names the most common diseases among children under 14

World news

• The number of permanent residents in Armenia is 2,972,000 people

• By 2050, Greece’s population could shrink by 2.5 million

• Poland sees largest fertility increase in the EU

• The number of divorces in Ukraine has increased by more than 1.5 times

• In Azerbaijan live about 10,000 people over the age of 90

• Does democracy have a positive effect on life expectancy?

• A mother's education affects her child's lifespan

• Finland again tops list of world’s happiest countries

• Income - a decisive factor for getting married?

• China accelerates migration procedures

• Migration figures in Lithuania for 2018 have improved

• Estonians working in Finland less often

• More and more Ukrainian and Belarusian workers in Estonia’s transport market

• Georgian citizens finding it harder to find work in Europe

• New migrant caravan headed to the USA

• US predicts a rise this year in the number of new illegal migrants to 1 million

• The number of new migrants in Italy falls to historic lows

• The number of Ukrainian citizens seeking asylum in the EU continues to decline

• EU police struggling with fictitious marriages of migrants

• In Germany, alcohol has led to the birth of almost 13,000 children with developmental disabilities over year

• France begins fight for sobriety

• WHO reports worldwide decrease in deaths from tuberculosis

• Latvian suicide rate remains among EU’s highest

• Air pollution leads to the annual death of 67,000 people in France

• Every three out of ten people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water.

The newspapers write about…

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Kommersant, Le Temps and Novye Izvestia on Migration Policy

• REGNUM, Novye Izvestiya (twice) and SAKHALIFE.RU on the migration crisis in Yakutia

• Radio Svoboda on emigration from Russia

• Newsweek Polska on the migration crisis in Europe

• The Conversation on migration and the labor market

• Forbes on the politics of the right in Europe

• Bloomberg, Moskovsky Komsomolets and Vc.ru on population size and demographic policy

• Kommersant on the health of migrants

• Novye Izvestiya on the situation on the roads

• Delfi.Iv on suicide

• The Guardian and Gazeta.Ru on alcohol consumption

• Lenta.ru on smoking

• Kommersant on tuberculosis

• Radio Svoboda on HIV in penal institutions

• Novye Izvestiya on old age

• IQ on marriage

• Komsomolskaya Pravda on regional demography

• Yle on poverty

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the fight against abortion

• Wonderzine, Gazeta.ru, and Forbes on feminism and gender equality

• Toronto Star and Daily Mail on children's right to change sex

• Argumenty i Fakty on online superservices

Read books and magazines

• Ukrainian society: the migration dimension

• The Demographic Yearbook of Poland 2018

• Migration and international law

• Handbook on measuring international migration through population censuses

• Poverty in childhood and old age: not only a shortage of income

• Through the pages of the journals “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” ("Social Aspects of Public Health") and “Ekologiya Cheloveka” ("Human Ecology")

• Content of the journal “Studies in Family Planning”

Profession: researcher

• Limits of human longevity: what can demographic data say? Scientific seminar “Modern Demography” of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research, HSE

• Russian surnames. Research Seminar of the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics "Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century"

• Will the Far East become Russia's priority in the 21st century? Conference "Settling the Russian Far East: past experience, present problems, future decisions”.