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Russian demographic barometer

Demographic results of the first half of 2019 in Russia (Part I)

• According to the results of the first half of the year, population decline continues for the third year in a row, but in 2019 its intensity decreased compared to the same period in 2018

• Natural decline continues to increase, while net migration has increased 1.8 times compared to January-June 2018

• The average age of a resident of Russia is over 40 years, the number of Russians aged 17 to 21 years is significantly less than in other one-year age groups under 70 years

• The decrease in the number of children born has again accelerated - in January-June 2019 it decreased by 8% compared with the same period in 2018

• Total fertility decreased in 2018 to 1.579

• The number of marriages registered in January-June 2019 decreased by 13%, and the number of divorces by 22%

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Q&A

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• Family needs

• Attitudes to marriage and divorce: monitoring

• Housing problems

• Lung cancer: prevalence and accessibility of treatment in Russia

In the vastness of Russia

• Fertility increased in only two regions of Russia over six-month period

• · In St. Petersburg the number of people has decreased, and in the Leningrad region has increased

• Ministry of Health names most common cause of deaths in Russia

• Rosstat predicts reduction in the deficit of men

• More than 20 thousand people over age 100 live in Russia

• Russians getting married and divorced less often

• More than 21% of children in Russia are born out of wedlock

• Five seventeen-year-old Russian women gave birth to a fifth child last year

• All maternity hospitals in Moscow have begun to issue birth certificates

• Rosstat records increase in poverty in Russia

• Risk of social exclusion affects almost every fifth household in Russia

• Putin worried about Russian incomes

• More than half of large families in Russia can afford only food and clothing.

• Introduction of maternity capital has had highest impact in the republics of the North Caucasus

• Ministry of Labor proposes to increase the minimum wage to 12,130 rubles

• Rosstat names regions with largest share of food expenses

• Most Russians find the country’s situation unfavorable for the future

• 34 million Russians suffer from skills mismatch

• Hundreds of “male” professions have been approved for Russian women

• Skvortsova asks for increase in the number of admissions to medical vocational schools

• 78% of Russians are not afraid that they will be replaced at work by robots

• Can 3 million citizens of Ukraine get Russian passports?

• Russia and Tajikistan diverge in estimates of the number of labor migrants

• Ministry of Health suggests employers fine employees for cigarette breaks

• 13% of cancer patients have bought drugs not registered in Russia

• In past month, eight children from the “House with a Lighthouse” list died due to a lack of unregistered drugs

• System of long-term care is needed not only for the elderly and disabled

• A proposal to keep records of underweight babies from the seventh day after their birth

• Doctors will be paid for every woman they manage to talk out of an abortion

• Putin criticizes primary health care

• Russian Ministry of Health plans to include plastic surgery in compulsory medical insurance

• Rosstat tells how Russian diet has changed over 40 years

World news

• UK population is 66.4 million

• Population of Ukraine has decreased by more than 143,000 people over six months

• By 2022, the population of Kirgizia will have grown to 6.6 million people

• Number of young residents of Moldova has decreased by 200,000 over 5 years

• Poland can set an example for the Baltic states in how to keep youth in the country

• Life expectancy of the Chinese has increased from 35 to 77 years over last 70 years

• Life expectancy of white Americans without higher education is decreasing

• The proportion of residents of Germany who are migrants or children of migrants has exceeded a quarter

• One in four immigrants with higher education in Germany comes from the former USSR

• Belarus to launch next census site in the autumn

• Zelensky simplifies acquisition of Ukrainian citizenship

• More than 12,000 residents of the DPR have received Russian citizenship

• Great Britain will establish a tight border with the EU immediately after Brexit

• Boris Johnson to build Australian-style immigration system

• US and Mexican officials to discuss migration agreement

• Uzbekistan will open representative offices for labor migrants abroad

• More than 20,000 people have emigrated from Kazakhstan over six months

• More than 3 million Ukrainians work abroad

• Since the beginning of the year, migrants have transferred over $1.1 billion to Kirgizia

• German Interior Minister threatens to strip those flying to Syria on vacation of refugee status

• US authorities want to lift restrictions on how long migrant children can be detained in special centers

• The number of migrants dying in the Mediterranean has been halved

• In 2018, 4,359 people died from drugs in England and Wales

• Tuberculosis incidence rates in Ukraine down by 40%

• Measles incidence up sharply in Poland

The newspapers write about…

• Pew Research Center on the demographic problems of the G7 countries

• Argumenty Nedeli on Russia’s demographic situation

• Depo.ua, RT na Russkom and EurasiaNet on migration policy

• National Review on the Migration Crisis

• RBK and 112.ua on labor migration

• Vsemirnaya Sluzhba BBC on water shortages

• Vechernyaya Moskva on alcohol consumption

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on old age

• Izvestiya on birth control

• Radio Azattyk and Meduza on gender selection and gender imbalance

• N+1 on reproductive strategies

• RBK on violence

• Novye Izvestia on the reduction in the number of persons with disabilities

• IQ on the balance between work and family

• Kommersant on allowing women to work

• Talouselama on a shorter work week

• Gazeta.ru on the May decrees on salaries

• RBK on a decent salary

• Komsomolskaya Pravda on the DPR census

Read books and magazines

• Atlas of migration

• Progress of the world’s women 2019–2020

• WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2019

• The prevalence of violence against women in Belarus

• Key indicators of maternal and child health, activities of the child welfare and obstetric care service in the Russian Federation

• Through the pages of the magazines Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Akusherstvo i Ginekologiya (Obstetrics and Gynecology)

• Contents of the journal Demography

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