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Demographic Barometer

  • UN estimates of global fertility trends, 2024
    • Total fertility of the world population is declining faster than expected recently - to 2.2 children per woman in 2024
    • Fertility at the age of 15-19 has decreased to 38‰, at the age of 20-24 – to 115‰
    • The number of births worldwide has decreased to 132 million people per year, the crude fertility rate - to 16‰
    • In 2024, the total fertility rate varied from 1.34 in the East and Southeast Asia region to 4.26 in sub-Saharan Africa
    • Total fertility below 2 children per woman is becoming the global norm

Population and Society

  • Yulia Fridrikhovna Florinskaya, Nikita Vladimirovich Mkrtchyan. The Geography of New Russian Emigration (based on a survey of Russians who left Russia in 2022 - 2023)

Q&A

  • Year of the family in Russia: results
  • Most Russians are in favor of increasing the amount of child care benefits
  • Maternity leave for men
  • 3 in 10 Russians would like to push the threshold of youth beyond 35 years
  • Moscow Longevity project and NAFI present new sociological study on longevity

In the vastness of Russia

  • In 2024, a decrease in the number of crimes was recorded in the Russian Federation
  • Program to help infertile women is launched in Moscow
  • Ministry of Health proposes to rethink approaches to sterilization
  • Residents of Kolyma 35 and under will receive payments upon birth of third child
  • In the Russian Federation, the number of large families has increased by almost 250 thousand over year
  • Expert Makarentseva explains size of maternity capital increase after indexation
  • Russia toughens procedure for obtaining temporary and permanent residence permit based on marriage
  • HRC member proposes to introduce interviews with Russian women before marrying migrants
  • Ministry of Health proposes fine for violating procedure for medical examination of migrants
  • State Duma increases fines for selling vapes and cigarettes to children to 2 million rubles
  • Ministry of Health supports ban on circulation of vapes in the Russian Federation
  • State Duma Committee supports fines of up to 500 thousand rubles for selling energy drinks to children
  • Ministry of Health: existing clinical guidelines cover 80% of common diseases

World News

  • Population of China in 2024 decreased by 1.39 million people
  • In Iraq, marriage age for girls may be lowered to nine years
  • Trump decree ending birthright citizenship is challenged by 22 states
  • New US administration shuts down immigration app
  • US Immigration Service confirms suspension of program for accepting refugees from Ukraine
  • Florida passes bill to toughen penalties for migrants
  • US imposes sanctions against Colombia for refusing to accept deported migrants
  • Bild: CDU/CSU proposes to declare state of emergency in Germany due to migrants
  • Mexico launches program to accept migrants expelled from US
  • More than 1,000 Syrians in Cyprus have refused refugee status
  • Pashinyan announces "emigration" of Armenians from diasporas abroad
  • Hainan will create more employment opportunities for foreigners
  • Trump signs executive order on US withdrawal from WHO
  • Trump doesn’t rule out reconsidering decision to withdraw from WHO
  • WHO intends to adapt to financial restrictions after US withdrawal
  • European Union is concerned about US decision to leave WHO
  • Japan saw record number of child suicides in 2024
  • More than 804 thousand cases of cholera were detected worldwide in 2024
  • In Thailand, law on legalization of same-sex marriages goes into effect
  • Trump bans funding for sex change operations for people under 19

The newspapers write about…

  • RBK on the population of Russia and the components of its changes
  • RBK on possible changes to the UN Convention on the Status of Refugees
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta and RBK on migrants without knowledge of the Russian language
  • Novye Izvestia on tightening procedure for obtaining temporary and permanent residence permit
  • Kommersant on tightening punishment for illegal migrants
  • Kommersant on tightening procedure for medical examination of foreigners
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the fight against illegal migration in Italy
  • RBK on US suspension of programs allowing migrants to temporarily reside in the country
  • Kommersant on measures to support families with children
  • Izvestia on increasing maternity payments for full-time female students
  • Kommersant on reproductive health and IVF
  • Financial Times on the impact of declining birth rates on the economies of countries
  • Kommersant on amendments to the law on medical education
  • Kommersant on the growth in sales of sedatives
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on the diet of Russians
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on excess mortality
  • Expert on economic inequality between countries of the global North and South
  • Kommersant on transplantation
  • Kommersant on genetic testing of future parents
  • Kommersant on the creation of a regional register of folk healers

Read books and magazines

  • World malaria report 2024
  • Health behaviour in school-aged children international report from the 2021/2022 survey
  • Regions of Russia. Socioeconomic indicators. 2024
  • The demographic handbook of Armenia, 2024
  • Women and men of the Kyrgyz Republic 2019-2023
  • Through the pages of the journals Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Voprosy Onkologii (Oncology Issues)
  • Contents of the journal Demography

Profession: researcher

  • Problems of statistical research of regional features of formation of reproductive attitudes of the population. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists

New in the reading room

  • A.G. Volkov. Population of the USSR (at the time of the All-Union Census of 1989)

New in announcements

  • International Conference XII Valenteevsky Readings "Demographic Processes in the Context of Global Challenges"

 
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