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World demographic barometer

World mortality trends according to UN estimates 2019

• The number of deaths has increased to 58 million per year, the overall mortality rate has decreased to 7.5 ‰

• The proportion of people who have reached the age of 60 years or more has increased among the number of deaths to 64%

• Life expectancy exceeds 73 years in all major regions except Africa

• The probability of surviving to the age of 80 is from 29% in the least developed countries to 58% in more developed countries

• Mortality under the age of 5 has decreased to 40 per 1000 births, but significant differences remain between countries

• Life expectancy at the age of 60 in the world has exceeded 20 years, and in more developed countries of the world - 23 years.

Take care of women!

• 10 facts about modern fertility and family planning at the global level

• Republic of Belarus sums up results of investigation into the situation of children and women

• UN opposes “female circumcision”

In the vastness of Russia

• Russia's population declines for second year in a row

• Until 2026, migrants will not be able to compensate for the decline in the population of Russia

• Putin announces need to increase the population in Russia

• By 2060, almost half of Russians will be pensioners

• Volodin proposes to study the problems of regions with the largest population decline

• Census will be one of the main events in 2020

• Russian Orthodox Church suggests that Ministry of Culture improve demography through TV shows and movies

• More than 1.1 million families will receive maternity capital for their first and second child in 2020

• Processing time for maternity capital applications will be shortened

• Having children will significantly reduce family mortgage expenses

• 2.4 million people can receive new child benefits in 2020

• The growth of real incomes of Russians in 2019 came to 0.8%

• Ministry of Internal Affairs tells about the new Russian passports

• State Duma expands opportunities for obtaining citizenship of the Russian Federation

• About 10 million foreigners a day staying on Russian territory

• Ministry of Internal Affairs wants to require medical certificates for foreigners entering the Russian Federation

• Regions will get new powers to regulate labor migration

• About 40 thousand citizens of Ukraine have temporary asylum in Russia

• 24 thousand Chinese students studying in Russia

• Cigarettes prices to rise by 25% in 2020

• Ministry of Health supports ban on smoking in communal apartments

• In 2020, a register of patients with malignant tumors will appear

• Cancer mortality in Russia decreasing

• ECHR obliges Russia to investigate all army suicides

• Government includes coronavirus in the list of diseases dangerous to others

• Russian polyclinics lack two thousand oncologists

• Ministry of Justice proposes harsh punishments for reckless drivers

World News

• Uzbekistan has resident population of 33.9 million

• Population of Ukraine has decreased by 11.45 million people since 2001

• Population of Croatia in 2030 may come to 3,877,000 people

• Fertility in China in 2019 drops to a record low

• The number of births in Belarus drops to 1945 level

• By 2030, life expectancy in Belarus should grow to 80 years

• Last year, the number of registered marriages in Ukraine was 6 times higher than divorces

• Beijing authorities will conduct census in 2020

• In Ukraine, pension fund deficit will reach 172.5 billion hryvnia

• British universities pay students to delay degrees

• South Korea records lowest internal migration rate in 47 years

• In 2019, 3.9 million Ukrainian citizens visited the Russian Federation

• Almost 300 thousand citizens of Ukraine received Russian citizenship over past year

• Obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of Belarus and Ukraine may get easier

• Kirgiz authorities want to ban dual citizenship

• Moldova intends to attract labor from abroad

• In Estonia, dissatisfaction with the influx of migrants from Ukraine

• Labor migration to Belarus has grown by almost a quarter

• In 2019, migrant workers transferred about $1.2 billion to Moldova

• Trump promises to stop AIDS epidemic in the United States within ten years

• The number of new HIV infections in Latvia has decreased over the past two years

• In Georgia, 8,150 people with HIV

• WHO predicts cancer growth of 60%

• Legalization of marijuana has led to an increase in deaths on US roads

• The number of persons with coronavirus exceeds 20.6 thousand people

• Scientists publish forecast of new coronavirus epidemic

• A hospital for patients with coronavirus was built in Wuhan in 10 days

• Church of England apologizes for calling for sex only in marriage

The newspapers write about…

• EurasiaNet and Moskovsky Komsomolets on population decline

• Izvestia on the demography of post-Soviet countries

• Nakanune.RU and The Diplomat on the population of China

• Die Welt on coronavirus

• Business Insider on coronavirus and the flu

• The New York Times on the severity of coronavirus

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on closing borders to protect against coronavirus

• TASS on the most dangerous infections in the history of mankind

• Die Welt on the Spanish flu pandemic

• Ekho Moskvy on the work of an epidemiologist

• Lenta.ru on the achievements of Veronika Skvortsova

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on the ambulance service

• Svenska Dagbladet on cancer

• Project Syndicate on global healthcare

• RIA Novosti on climate refugees

• Evropeyska Pravda on Ukrainian migrants

• Izvestia on Russian citizenship

• Kommersant and REGNUM on the maternity capital

• SwissInfo on the causes of low fertility

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on divorce

• Slate.fr on celibacy

• The Guardian and Slate.fr on sex and abstinence

• The Village on how the image of masculinity has changed

• Russkaya Sluzhba BBC on domestic violence

Read books and magazines

• Are people able to pay for healthcare services?

• World Population Prospects The 2019 Revision

• Russian Statistical Yearbook 2019

• Total morbidity of the population over working age (55 years for women and 60 years for men) in Russia in 2018

• Population of Ukraine for 2018

• Through the pages of the journals Demografiya ta sotsialna ekonomika (Demography and Social Economy) and Ekonomika i Organizatsiya promyshlennovo proizvodstva (EKO) (Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (ECO))

• Contents of the Journal of Population Economics

Profession: researcher

• Human life as a new demographic indicator: estimates for Russian regions. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• 90 years since the birth of Leonid Evseevich Darsky

• In memory of Theodore Shanin

• Maria Bozhovich, Alexander Arkhangelsky. An Intellectual with Superman’s Biography

The reading room

• N.B. Barkalov and Leonid E. Darsky. Russia: Fertility, Contraception, Induced Abortion, Infant and Maternal Mortality

Student page

• Winter School of the Faculty of Social Sciences at HSE for new Master’s students

• Selected Essays. D. Podgorny. The HIV Problem in Russia: Estimates and Trends