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Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Demographic barometer

  • Older generations of Russians, 2025
    • At the beginning of 2025, people aged 65 and over accounted for almost 18% of the total population of Russia, by the middle of the century their share may increase to 24%
    • The demographic burden of older ages is 436 people above working age per 1,000 people of working age
    • The share of the population above working age varies from 9% to 29% of the population of the subject regions of the Russian Federation
    • Life expectancy at age 55 increased in 2023 in Russia to 24 years
    • As of January 1, 2025, 41.2 million pensioners were registered with the Social Fund of Russia, the average size of assigned pensions exceeded 23,000 rubles
    • The number of recipients of old age insurance pensions at the beginning of 2025 was 33.4 million people

Population and society

  • Olga Sergeevna Chudinovskikh. On international migration in the Far Eastern Federal District

Q&A

  • The higher the salary, the less likely one is to fear loneliness
  • Have more people started smoking?
  • Emigration sentiments and attitudes towards those who left
  • The level of xenophobia and interethnic tension, attitudes towards newcomers, the possibility of clashes on ethnic grounds
  • Personal responsibility against addiction and infantilism

World news

  • Kazakhstan to introduce criminal liability for forced marriage
  • Vietnam cancels "two-child" policy to stop fertility decline
  • In Japan, a record low number of children were born in 2024
  • Mongolia reports sharp increase in number of measles cases
  • Lukashenko: Many Ukrainians arriving in Belarus are settling in the country
  • Moldovan citizens advised to refrain from traveling to Russia
  • Record number of foreigners receive German passports
  • Germany to limit reunification of refugees with families
  • Financial Times: Austria to ban migrants from reuniting with their families from 2026
  • Merkel warns that Europe could go kaput due to anti-migration measures
  • Macron urges "aging" countries to prepare for "organized migration"
  • Telegraph: white citizens will make up less than half of Britain's population in 40 years
  • The Times: Britain wants to support migrants subject to deportation in the Balkans
  • US Supreme Court allows Trump to deport 500,000 migrants

The newspapers write about…

  • Expert on measures to support fertility
  • Kommersant on proposal to increase maternity benefits for female students
  • Kommersant on the growing availability of IVF
  • TASS on encouraging large families
  • URA.RU on encouraging gender equality in child care
  • Kommersant on reproductive health checkups
  • Kommersant and Expert on the growth of life expectancy
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on areas of abnormally high life expectancy
  • TASS on active longevity
  • Expert on the growth of cancer incidence
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the fight against diabetes
  • Expert on the growth of obesity
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on record migration growth in Russia last year
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on a new repatriation channel
  • Kommersant on mandatory testing of migrants on knowledge of the Russian language and Russian history
  • Kommersant on limiting migrants' access to the labor market
  • Kommersant on legislative regulation of dietary supplements
  • TASS on the fight against loneliness
  • Kommersant on methods of treating speech disorders
  • TASS on the demographic problems of the Global South
  • RBK on the list of cities providing shelter to illegal migrants in the United States

Read books and magazines

  • World Health Statistics 2024
  • On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in 2024
  • Tajikistan. Health Systems in Transition
  • Demographic Yearbook of the Republic of Tajikistan
  • Standing up for stillbirth
  • Through the pages of the journals Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya (Sociological Research) and Zdorovye, demografiya, ekologiya finno-ugorskikh narodov (Health, demography, ecology of the Finno-Ugric peoples)
  • Contents of the European Journal of Population

Profession: researcher

  • Young scientists on demographic problems. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists
  • 75 years since the birth of Nikolai Borisovich Barkalov

New in the reading room

  • Bibliography on population problems (1975-1978)

 
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