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Demographic barometer

• First demographic results of 2024 in the European Union
  • The population of the EU-27 continues to grow, exceeding 450 million by the beginning of 2025
  • Since 2012, the only factor driving population growth in the EU-27 has been net migration, with the natural population decline exceeding 1.1 million for the fifth year in a row
  • In 2024, natural population decline was observed in 20 of the 27 countries of the Union, while net migration was observed in 26
  • The number of births in the EU-27 continues to decline, falling to 3.6 million in 2024, or 7.9 per 1,000 people
  • In 2024, the number of deaths in the EU-27 fell to 4.8 million, or 10.7 per 1,000 people

Population and Society

• Valery Valerievich Yumaguzin, Maria Viktorovna Vinnik. Mortality from unspecified causes in Russia: the regional aspect

Q&A

• Traditional values as seen by Russians
• Demographic potential: expectations and limitations
• Failure to follow a regime, lack of exercise and fatigue are the main threats to the health of Russians
• Insurance medicine: the hard path to a person
• One in nine Russians has used telemedicine in the past year
• Three quarters of doctors surveyed report lack of confidence in their professionalism

In the vastness of Russia

• Putin says existing support measures for families with children are insufficient
• Matvienko: "Demographic Special Forces" have been created in each ministry
• State Duma discusses priorities of demographic policy
• Law signed on simplifying registration of housing purchased with maternity capital
• Volodin opposes introduction of childlessness tax
• Golikova does not support proposal for a salary for the birth of a child
• State Duma adopts law on increasing maternity benefits for students
• Golikova names size of family tax payment
• Company payments of up to 1 million rubles for the birth of a child will not be subject to personal income tax
• State Duma proposes introducing leave for fathers at the birth of a child
• In Russia, a proposal to give land to married couples for free after 10 years of marriage
• Public Chamber calls for returning mandatory stamps marriage and children stamps to passports
• Public Chamber proposes adding grandchildren to passports of grandparents
• Ministry of Health reveals reproductive health disorders in almost 13% of Russian women
• Murashko points out decrease in infant mortality rate in Russia
• Ministry of Health prohibits doctors from being the first to raise topic of abortion during consultations
• Russians are less likely to be diagnosed with alcoholism
• Bill introduced to State Duma to ban the sale of alcohol to persons under 21
• Social Fund reveals how many Russians receive a pension
• First KPD demographic support rating of companies is presented at SPIEF
• Foreigners not speaking Russian will not be able to work in service sector
• Senators approve exemption of some migrants from Russian language exam
• Putin instructs Ministry of Internal Affairs to create a "Digital Profile of a Foreign Citizen"
• Ministry of Labor denies reports of "a million migrants from India"
• Putin allows Moldovan citizens to work in the Russian Federation without a work license until October 2026
• In St. Petersburg, migrants banned from working as taxi drivers
• In St. Petersburg, migrants banned from working as couriers
• Large-scale bans on work for migrants are being introduced in Crimea
• Bill to ban free education for children of migrants is submitted to State Duma
• Ministry of Education speaks out against fee-based school for migrant children

World News

• WHO: loneliness annually leads to the death of almost 900 thousand people worldwide
• In Ukraine, since the beginning of the year, mortality has exceeded fertility nearly three-fold
• Ukraine admits that since 2021 it has lost 40% of the working-age population
• Almost a million Ukrainian refugees officially registered in Poland
• Free contraceptives to be distributed in Kazakhstan only for medical reasons
• In France, the number of deaths exceeds fertility for the first time since 1945
• Japan's population falls by a record 900 thousand people
• Life expectancy of Japanese women highest for 40th year in a row
• Harbinger of world’s fastest demographic decline is found in China
• Families with children under three years old will be paid $500 per year in China
• Benefits of 10,000 steps a day refuted
• The Lancet: cuts in USAID funding could lead to the deaths of 14 million people
• US Department of Health and Human Services refuses to finance development of mRNA vaccines
• Seznam: Czech Republic has recorded an increase in the number of sexually transmitted diseases
• Kyrgyz authorities call on labor migrants to return to the country
• Trump allows Ukrainian refugees to stay in the United States until the end of the conflict

The newspapers write about…

• Esli byt’ tochnym on the unavailability of demographic statistics
• Kommersant, Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Vedomosti on quotas for foreign labor
• Kommersant on concessions for Moldovan migrants in Russia
• Vedomosti on new duty taxes for migrants
• Izvestia and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on population decline in small towns and rural areas
• Kommersant on the need to evaluate the effectiveness of measures to increase fertility
• Kommersant on the increase in the proportion of women refusing abortion
• RBK and Kommersant on the reproductive plans of Russians
• URA.RU on payments for the birth of a child in the regions of Russia
• Izvestia on proposal to increase the amount of child care benefits
• Kommersant on the growth in demand for hormonal contraception
• Kommersant and Vedomosti on the prevalence of family studies lessons in schools
• RBK on the decrease in the incidence of hepatitis C in children
• Kommersant on the increase in the incidence of meningococcal infection
• RBK on pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV
• Kommersant on the development of a strategy to improve road safety until 2030
• Vedomosti on criticism of the procedure for including drugs in the list of vital and essential drugs
• Kommersant on WHO call to raise prices for harmful products
• Kommersant on the reduction in the production of strong alcohol
• Kommersant on the benefits of physical activity for health
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the share of social payments in the population's income
• Kommersant on private transfers to families with small children
• Kommersant on the transition to a single-tier system of local government
• RBK on delegating medical duties to paramedics and midwives
• Kommersant on initiative of mandatory three years of work for medical students
• Kommersant on medical tourism
• Kommersant on the consequences of a shortened work week
• Kommersant on the growth in the number of applicants to Moscow vocational schools

Read books and magazines

• Global survey of the adult population on tobacco consumption in Kazakhstan, 2019
• State report "On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in St. Petersburg in 2024"
• Statistics on child 2024
• Noncommunicable diseases progress monitor 2025
• Key figures on Europe
• Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Problemy Prognozirovaniya (Problems of Forecasting)
• Contents of the journal Demographic Research

Profession: researcher

• 120 years since the birth of Vadim Vyacheslavovich Pokshishevsky

Student page

• Announcements of academic events from the student society "Demographer"

New in the reading room

• N.V. Tarasova. Demographic studies in the USSR in 1960-1991