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Demographic
barometer
- Fertility trends in countries with persistent low
fertility according to UN estimates for 2024
- In 2024, total fertility in countries with persistent low
fertility ranged from 0.7 to 2.0 births per woman
- Average age of mothers at birth ranged from 26.2 to 33.4
years
- Total fertility levels and trends vary in countries with
persistent low fertility, and prospects for changes in fertility
and the number of births also differ
- Absence of migration growth could significantly affect
the number of women of reproductive age
- Over the past 30 years, the age profile of fertility in
countries with persistent low fertility has noticeably "aged"
- The total fertility rate experiences large fluctuations
due to changes in the birth calendar and can send the wrong
signals to policymakers
Q&A
- The ideal age to have your first child
- The ideal age to marry
- Young people are better at maintaining work-life balance
- How do Russians feel about IVF?
- 60% of doctors believe that the healthcare sector has worsened
over past year
- Perceptions of the most pressing problems of Russian society:
January 2025
In
the vastness of Russia
- Mishustin reports to Putin about real income growth of 8.4%
in Russia
- Ministry of Labor: about 11 million jobs will need to be filled
over next five years
- Russia will need 68,000 doctors over next five years
- Absolute number of births in Russia has approached the level
of 2000
- Ministry of Health says fertility has dropped to one of lowest
levels ever
- State Duma reminds of measures to support families with children
- Expert Makarentseva: maternity capital for first child allows
you to buy a home
- State Duma rejects bill on increasing maternity capital in
regions with low fertility
- Matviyenko proposes that Mordovia provide apartment for social
rent at birth of first child
- Women in Russia will be helped to feed children at work
- Vologda Oblast expects fertility to increase by 1.5-2 times
- Mikheeva: authorities should not interfere in personal life
to influence demography
- Deputy head of Ministry of Internal Affairs reveals number
of illegal migrants in Russia
- Russia introduces regime for deportation of foreigners
- Register of controlled persons appears on Ministry of Internal
Affairs website
- Gorovoy speaks about register of controlled persons from migrant
offenders in Russian Federation
- More than 95 thousand migrant offenders identified in Russia
after launch of register
- Foreigners will be recognized as undesirable in Russian Federation
if their children receive such status
- Ministry of Internal Affairs officials will be able to deport
foreigners from Russia
- State Duma deputies complain to Ministry of Health about migrant
doctors
- State Duma preparing bill on medical examination of foreigners
arriving in Russian Federation
- Ministry of Internal Affairs speaks in favor of regulating
structures organizing flow of labor migrants
- Ministry of Health: Russia may see chemotherapy that does not
cause hair loss
- Constitutional Court guarantees pension for children conceived
by IVF after death of their father
- Sevastopol court hands down first sentence in Russia for promoting
childfree
World
News
- In China, the number of marriages reaches half-century low
- Moldova has lost almost half its population over 35 years
- Mortality in Ukraine last year exceeded fertility by almost
three times
- The Times learns of EU plans to revise Convention relating
to refugee status
- National Bank of Ukraine: the outflow of population in 2024
amounted to 500 thousand people
- Poland refuses to take on new commitments on refugees from
Ukraine
- Great Britain allows Ukrainian refugees to bring their children
- Most worrying issue for Germans before elections is migrants
- Amid protests, Bundestag rejects migration bill
- El Salvador and United States intend to conclude unprecedented
agreement on migration
- NYT: US to start expelling migrants from Venezuela within 30
days
- Trump administration deports nearly 11,000 migrants to Mexico
- Florida passes bill to toughen penalties for migrants
- Texas governor orders police to help authorities fight migrants
- Economists: Trump's immigration measures will negatively affect
US economy
- UN: more than 1,600 Haitians have fled their homes
- US again blames China for COVID-19 pandemic
- WHO warns of risk of new dangerous viruses due to COVID
- Argentina president orders country's withdrawal from WHO
- WHO: Niger has gotten rid of a disease caused by a parasitic
worm
- Air pollution in the center of Mongolia's capital has exceeded
the norm twofold
The
newspapers write about…
- RBK on the population in Russia
- Esli byt’ tochnym on fertility among foreign citizens
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta on postponing childbearing
- Kommersant on reducing the number of abortions
- Kommersant on surrogacy
- Izvestia on preferential mortgages for those intending to have
children
- Kommersant and Expert on the forecast of labor force needs
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the shortage of personnel
- RBK on women's labor
- Kommersant on work-offs for medical school graduates
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the growth of labor productivity
- TASS on project to reduce working hours
- Novye Izvestia and Kommersant on illegal migration
- Kommersant on registry of migrant offenders and registry of
controlled persons
- RBK on proposals to regulate migration
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta on migration of Russians to China
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the loss of interest in sex among teenagers
- Lenta.ru on young people unadapted to life
- TASS on demographic development of Far East
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books and magazines
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- Through the pages of the journals Naseleniye i Ekonomika (Population
and Economics) and Regionalnye issledovaniya (Regional Studies)
- Contents of the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive
Health
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- Measuring the effectiveness of demographic policy (using the
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birth
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in the reading room
- Heldur Palli. Natural Movement of the Rural Population of Estonia
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