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Demographic barometer

• UN estimates of international migration in 2024
  • After the 2010 census round, at least one source of data on the number of international migrants in 2024 was available for 87% of countries
  • The number of international migrants as of mid-2024 exceeded 304 million people, or 3.7% of the world's population
  • Europe has the largest number of international migrants - in 2024, their number exceeded 94 million people
  • The United States remains the undisputed leader in the number of immigrants - 52.4 million people as of mid-2024
  • The largest number of emigrants comes from India - 18.5 million people as of mid-2024

Q&A

• For Russians, love is more important than career
• 8 out of 10 parents with many children are for an additional two weeks of vacation
• The time to have children
• Divorce Russian-style
• Telemedicine in Russia: supply and demand
• Religion and society: monitoring

In the vastness of Russia

• Mishustin reports on results of implementation of national project "Family" for five months
• State Council Commission to look for new approaches to increasing country’s fertility
• State Duma proposes to abolish need criteria for large families
• Gosuslugi plans to introduce navigator for measures to support student families
• Mishustin: Russia has increased funding for free medical care by 40% over five years
• Murashko: in Russia, only one indicator of the national project "Healthcare" has not been met
• In 2024, 6.9 million Russians underwent reproductive medical examination
• Preliminary results of Moscow’s reproductive health project
• Moscow begins pilot project for nursing low-birth-weight newborns
• Large-scale project to prevent gastrointestinal cancer is being launched in Moscow
• Russia sees increase in dangerous diseases due to anti-vaxxers
• The number of new HIV patients in the Russian Federation decreased by more than 11% in 2024
• Expert Mazus: in the future, HIV-infected people will be able to be treated with one injection every six months
• Ministry of Health: in the Russian Federation, most risk factor indicators are not decreasing
• 2024 results show an influx of migrants in nine regions of the Far Eastern Federal District
• Ministry of Internal Affairs discloses the number of migrant children in Russia
• State Duma approves in first reading the transfer of information about migrant children to the Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Ministry of Internal Affairs announces inclusion of data on 772,000 migrants in the register of controlled persons of the Russian Federation
• Bill on mandatory knowledge of the Russian language by migrants will be introduced to State Duma
• Kolokoltsev calls for expulsion of “useless” migrants from Russia

World news

• UN announces historical low fertility in the world
• India's population will reach 1.7 billion by 2065, UN warns
• Guardian: Australia is getting closer to creating a cure for HIV
• In Mongolia, the number of citizens infected with measles has exceeded seven thousand
• Dushanbe says Russian Federation may become less desirable for labor migrants
• Hungary demands that EU Court cancel fine of €1 million for refusing to accept migrants
• Dutch Prime Minister calls for strengthening control over migration in EU
• CNN: US revokes residence permits for more than 500,000 migrants
• Trump calls for more active deportation of illegal migrants
• Bloomberg: US suggests that Balkan countries accept deported migrants
• Ukrainians will be allowed to have citizenship of countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia
• UN report: progress in human development has slowed to 35-year low

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant on children of migrants
• RBK on regulating migration flows
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on educational migration
• RBK on migrants from visa countries who do not know Russian
• Kommersant on the new strategy of national policy
• TASS and Expert on migration protests in the USA
• Vedomosti on the causes of fertility decline in the world
• RBK on fines for incitement to abortions
• EKONS on the impact of population aging on inflation
• Kommersant and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the spread of infectious diseases
• Izvestia on high standards of Moscow healthcare
• Kommersant on the decline in alcohol consumption
• The Washington Post on the changing structure of the population by religion
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the decline in religiosity in Russia

Read books and magazines

• World population in 2025
• Suicide worldwide in 2021: global health estimates
• State report on the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the city of Moscow in 2024
• Estatisticas demograficas 2023
• Women's empowerment, population dynamics, and development
• Through the pages of the magazines Naseleniye i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and ORGZDRAV: Novosti, mneniya, obucheniye. Vestnik VShOUZ (ORGZDRAV: news, opinions, training. Bulletin of the Higher School of Economics)
• Contents of the journal Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

• Unexpected results of the search for the mysterious informant Frank Lorimer
• In memory of (William) Ward Kingkade
• 75th anniversary of the birth of Natalia Viktorovna Zvereva