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Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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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

Read books and magazines

  • Adult mortality in India: trends, socio-economic disparities and consequences
  • Comprehensive description of human potential of Russia’s regions
  • International migration and sustainable development
  • Women and men in Azerbaijan
  • Children of Kazakhstan 2019-2023
  • 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

Profession: researcher

  • Measuring the effectiveness of demographic policy (using the example of the federal maternity capital). Meeting of the Statistical Section of the Central House of Scientists
  • 95th Anniversary of Leonid Yevseyevich Darsky's birth

New in the reading room

  • Heldur Palli. Natural Movement of the Rural Population of Estonia (1650 - 1799). Part 1

 
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