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Demographic Barometer

• First demographic results of 2023 in the European Union
  • Eu-27 population is growing again, exceeding 449 million by the beginning of 2024
  • Natural population decline in EU-27 exceeds 1.1 million people for fourth year in a row
  • The number of births in the EU-27 continues to decline, falling in 2023 to 3.7 million people or 8.2 per 1,000 people
  • In 2023, the number of deaths in the EU-27 decreased to 4.8 million people, or 10.8 per 1,000 people
  • In 2023, life expectancy at birth increased in the EU-27 to 81.5 years, at age 65 – to 20.2 years
  • Median age of EU-27 population in 2023 was 44.5 years

Population and Society

• Mark Tolts. Emigration from Russia to Israel in 2022-2024

Q&A

• Mother's Day
• Childlessness Tax: pros and cons
• The problem of divorce in the family
• Most Russians believe that a man should provide for the family
• How employers and colleagues react to the announcement of a pregnancy
• Attitudes to homosexuality, LGBT rights and "propaganda of homosexuality": October 2024

In the vastness of Russia

• 17% of the Russian population is 65 years old and older
• Average age of the population of Russia is 41 years
• The number of women of reproductive age will decrease to 33.2 million by 2030
• Average age of mothers in the Russian Federation has increased to 29 years
• Childlessness and large families are growing in Russia at the same time
• Child mortality has decreased by 55.4% over 10 years
• More than 70% of low-income households are families with children
• Golikova calls for creating conditions for working women with children
• State Duma adopts law banning public propaganda of childfree
• 90% of Russian orphans live in families
• State Duma adopts law banning adoption of children in countries where gender reassignment is permitted
• The number of people employed in the shadow economy is 6.5 million
• There are no unemployed in Moscow
• The number of people granted Russian citizenship has decreased by 44% since the beginning of the year
• Foreigners who have not passed the oath procedure will be deprived of citizenship
• Since the beginning of the year, the State Duma has adopted 13 migration laws
• Russia tightens punishment for organizing illegal migration
• Foreigners on Ministry of Internal Affairs register will be prohibited from registering marriages
• State Duma to introduce bill banning migrants from schools without knowledge of Russian
• Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to limit stay of Ukrainians in Russia
• On Sakhalin, migrants have been banned from working in 24 areas
• Retail sales of alcohol in the Russian Federation have reached a new historical maximum
• The number of children with disabilities has increased by almost 25% in 10 years
• In Moscow, the survival rate of low-birth-weight infants has reached 99%
• In 2023, 156,000 abortions were carried out in Russia
• Pneumococcus causes 50% of non-hospital pneumonia cases in the Russian Federation

World News

• Xi Jinping calls for formation of a society focused on having children
• Musk predicts death of Europe due to low fertility
• Those who change their profession after age 45 work longer
• Unemployment rate in Ukraine has doubled since February 2022
• Lithuanian Seimas adopts law on national minorities
• In 2024, the outflow from Ukraine will be about 500,000
• UK has issued more than 265,000 visas to Ukrainian refugees
• The Netherlands introduces border controls for six months
• UK will fight migration together with North Macedonia and Serbia
• Australia creates its first-ever post of anti-slavery commissioner
• More than half of the world's children become victims of violence every year
• The number of people with diabetes in the world has increased more than four times since 1990
• More than 15% of US residents suffer from diabetes
• Measles cases are growing worldwide
• Three quarters of American adults are overweight
• Doctors to study the phenomenon of longevity of patients with aggressive forms of cancer
• WHO concerned about the growing workload of schoolchildren

The newspapers write about…

• RBK, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and TASS on draft strategy of demographic and family policy
• RBK on tightening migration policy
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on fight against illegal migration and the growth of xenophobia
• RBK on extending deadlines for enrolling migrant children in school
• Kommersant on amendments to the Family Code
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta on labor productivity in the construction sector and the need for migrants
• RBK and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on personnel shortage
• RBK on the Russian labor market model
• Kommersant on remote employment
• Expert on the impact of retirement age on the economy
• TASS, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Kommersant on cancer treatment
• TASS and Kommersant on the fight against diabetes
• Kommersant on the sufficiency of drugs for the treatment of pneumonia
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the development of the healthcare system
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the modernization of rural paramedic and obstetric stations
• Kommersant on medical chatbots
• Novye Izvestia on the impact of climate on human health
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the demographic and economic development of Russia in the 20th century
• Kommersant on preliminary results of a study on reproductive health
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the reasons for the popularity of childbirth in Moscow
• Izvestia on payments to student families
• Moskvich Mag on the marriage market
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the growth in the number of homeless people
• TASS on the dangers of gas stoves for health
• Expert on the impact of urban agglomerations on the economy

Read books and magazines

• Health at a glance: Europe 2024. State of health in the EU cycle
• Global Tuberculosis Report 2024
• Demographic yearbook of Kazakhstan
• World population prospects 2024. Methodology of the United Nations population estimates and projections
• On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in 2023
• Through the pages of the magazines “DEMIS” and “Vestnik MGU. Seriya 18. Sotsiologiya i politologiya” (“MSU Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and political science”)
• Contents of the journal "Studies in family planning"

Profession: researcher

• 150 years since the birth of Olimpiy Aristarkhovich Kvitkin
• 150 years since the birth of Nikolay Abramovich Vigdorchik