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Demographic barometer

  • First demographic results of 2024 in Russia (part II)
    • In 2024, the number of deaths in Russia began to increase again, exceeding 1.8 million people (12.5 per 1,000 people), 3.3% more than in 2023
    • The largest number of deaths was registered in January 2024 – 182,000 people, the least in September – 141,000 people
    • The number of deaths is likely to grow in the coming years, as the large generations born in the 1950s have reached the age of 65-75
    • According to preliminary estimates, in 2024, life expectancy at birth decreased by 0.6 years, amounting to 72.8 years
    • According to 2024 data, healthy life expectancy in Russia amounted to 61.7 years
    • Infant mortality in Russia, according to preliminary data for January-December 2024, has decreased to 4.0‰

Q&A

  • One woman in five is still asked about plans for children when applying for a job
  • Family tree: most often, Russians know only three generations of ancestors
  • Facing infidelity: how, with whom and why do Russians cheat on each other?
  • In favor of the non-alcoholic: Russians on beer consumption
  • Most Russians like their locality

In the vastness of Russia

  • Cabinet of Ministers approves strategy for implementing family and demographic policy
  • Strategy for implementing demographic policy includes 13 indicators
  • Mishustin: 14.5 million maternity capital certificates have been issued in the Russian Federation since 2007
  • Ministry of Labor names average age of women at birth of first child
  • Schoolgirls in Oryol Region will receive 100,000 rubles for pregnancy
  • In the Russian Federation, more than 2.3 million newborns have undergone neonatal screening in past two years
  • Almost half of Russians have chronic non-communicable diseases
  • In Russia, mortality from HIV infection has decreased by 19% in five years
  • Ministry of Health proposes to clarify list of medical indications for abortion
  • Proposal in St. Petersburg to set fine of up to 50,000 for incitement to abortion
  • Murashko assesses employers' losses due to smoking breaks
  • Russia is among countries getting little sleep: how this affects people's health
  • Children of migrants will only need to know Russian at a C level
  • Putin: Russia seeks to provide Tajiks with decent working conditions in Russia
  • Russian Prosecutor General announces twofold increase in criminal cases in the field of illegal migration
  • Citizens of Ukraine must legalize their stay or leave the Russian Federation by September 10
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs names preferences in Russian Federation for highly qualified personnel from visa countries
  • Bill on repatriation to Russia submitted to State Duma
  • In the Russian Federation, about 5,000 people have temporary identity cards without citizenship
  • Golikova: poverty level in 2024 was lowest in the history of the Russian Federation

World News

  • WHO: in Europe, the number of cases of tuberculosis increased by 10% in 2023
  • Head of WHO: Reduction in funding from the US will lead to millions of deaths
  • USA may reduce funding for HIV prevention programs
  • IOM is restructuring due to funding cuts
  • Germany intends to reach agreement with Syria on return of hundreds of thousands of refugees
  • In Switzerland, since 2022, about 30,000 Ukrainians have lost their refugee status
  • Expert Libanova: about 33% of women who left Ukraine will return after the conflict
  • Canada wants to lure highly qualified specialists from the USA

The newspapers write about…

  • Izvestia on the strategy of family and demographic policy for the period up to 2036
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on innovations in migration policy
  • Kommersant on expanding the criteria for repatriation
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on patterns of migrant settlement in cities
  • Kommersant and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on labor shortages
  • Kommersant on the need for employers to invest in the education and health of employees
  • Kommersant on changes in the list of medical indications for termination of pregnancy
  • Kommersant on the increase in tuberculosis in Russia
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on the well-being of elderly people
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on regional rating of well-being of the elderly
  • Expert on Volgograd’s population decline
  • TASS on new vape disease EVALI
  • Expert on the fight against migrants in the USA
  • RBK on the fact that now only 13.7% of Russians use cesspools

Read books and magazines

  • World Fertility Report 2024
  • The demography of remarriage in Japan
  • From measurements to changes. Brief History of Population Censuses
  • Youth of Azerbaijan 2024
  • Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2025
  • Through the Pages of the journals Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny (Problems of Social Hygiene, Healthcare and History of Medicine) and Zhurnal issledovaniy sotsialnoy politiki (Journal of Social Policy Studies)
  • Contents of the journal Population, Space and Place

Profession: researcher

  • 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Anatoly Grigorievich Vishnevsky
  • Remembering A.G. Vishnevsky
  • A. Vishnevsky, M. Denisenko. Migrations in a Global Context

 
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