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Demographic barometer

Population of the CIS countries, 2024

  • Total population of CIS countries at the start of 2024 was estimated to be 290 million people
  • The share of urban residents in CIS countries ranges from 29% in Tajikistan to 79% in Belarus
  • In 4 CIS countries, there is a stable trend of natural population decline, in the rest, natural growth continues, with a high intensity in some
  • Total fertility rate in CIS countries differs by more than 3.5 times
  • Life expectancy at birth ranges from 70 to 78 years in the CIS countries

Q&A

  • Reproductive plans of Russians: write two, think three?
  • 2 out of 3 Russians support prohibiting alcohol for those under 21
  • One in two men considers later retirement discrimination
  • The city for a better life
  • Emigration experience during the Special Military Operation
  • A look at ecology: concerns and expectations of society

In the vastness of Russia

  • Rosstat estimates natural population decline in 2024
  • State Duma extends maternity capital program until the end of 2030
  • Putin gives instructions to assign child benefits when subsistence minimum is exceeded
  • Ministry of Labor calls on businesses to introduce measures to stimulate fertility
  • Russian region to launch maternity tourism program
  • Bill on subsidies for a long marriage will be introduced to State Duma
  • Golikova: Almost 75% of Russians had state health check-up in 2024
  • 7 million Russians underwent state medical exam to assess their reproductive health in 2024
  • Ministry of Health: in Russia, most men and women are reproductively healthy
  • More than 14% of Russians surveyed do not have enough time for state health check-up
  • Ministry of Health proposes changing list of medical indications for abortion
  • In Russian Federation, the difference in life expectancy in the regions exceeds 10 years
  • In the Russian Federation, the one-year mortality rate from cancer by the beginning of the year was 17.3%, this figure has decreased by 22.1% since 2018
  • Russia plans to create mRNA platform for cancer vaccines
  • Russia plans to increase life expectancy of patients with diabetes by 2030
  • Alcohol consumption in Russian Federation has decreased in 44 regions and increased in 41
  • Ministry of Health proposes changing procedure for blood alcohol test
  • Volodin calls ??Rosobrnadzor migrant idea "devaluation of the law"
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs: only 20% of children of foreigners in the Russian Federation are registered at place of stay
  • Children of migrants will be identified and put in school
  • Lavrov speaks out against visa regime for labor migrants
  • Yarovaya: proposal to test visitors for hepatitis C
  • Golikova says how many new cadres Russia needs to “grow”
  • Health Minister reports how many doctors Russia lacks
  • Golikova: poverty level in the Russian Federation has decreased by 37% since 2018

World News

  • Uzbekistan introduces ban on dismissing women due to pregnancy or having children
  • WHO recommends putting health warnings on alcohol bottles
  • French parliament bans disposable electronic cigarettes
  • WHO and UNICEF plan to vaccinate about 600 thousand children in Gaza
  • Life expectancy growth has slowed in Britain and European countries
  • Taiwan intends to increase life expectancy to 82 years
  • Doctors in US record decrease in cancer mortality
  • Trump intends to permanently end policy of diversity and inclusion
  • Doctors Without Borders press US to resume funding for HIV/AIDS plan
  • US appeals court suspends Trump's decree to abolish birthright citizenship
  • Vance calls illegal migration the main threat to Europe
  • The majority of French people support holding migration referendum
  • India announces intention to fight illegal migration together with the US
  • Expert Voskoboinik: only 30% of citizens who left the country will return to Ukraine
  • Australia adds questions about gender identity to census questionnaires

The newspapers write about…

  • Novye Izvestia on the demographic results of 2024
  • RBK on measures to increase fertility
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on a sharp increase in migration growth
  • Kommersant on new migration laws
  • RBK and Kommersant on the need to tighten control over migrants
  • Kommersant on the fight against "rubber apartments" with foreigners
  • Expert on refining the register of controlled persons
  • Kommersant on the expanding geography of labor migration in Russia
  • RBK on “golden visa” to attract foreigners to Russia
  • Kommersant on the passing score for children of migrants to get into school
  • TASS and Kommersant on the fight against the personnel shortage in labor market
  • RBK on the growth in the number of pensioners
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta and RBK on pension reform and the size of pensions
  • Kommersant on the reproductive health of young people
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on the dangerous consumption of alcohol in Russia
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on differences in mortality rates among people with different levels of education
  • RBK on the criteria for assessing the quality of medical care
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestia on discovery of new coronavirus in China
  • Lenta.ru on the desire of Japanese women to spend the rest of their days in prison

Read books and magazines

  • Population of post-Soviet countries: trends, forecasts, intergenerational transfers
  • Ethnodemographic processes in Kazakhstan and adjacent territories
  • China's population policies 1949-2019
  • Youth of Kazakhstan 2019-2023
  • Monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicators in the CIS region 2019-2023
  • Through the pages of the journals DEMIS and Uroven zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii (Standard of living of the population of the regions of Russia)
  • Contents of the magazine Population & Societes

Profession: researcher

  • Life strategies of families with different numbers of children. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists

Student page

  • Using search query statistics to study interest in the topic of influenza

 
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