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Demographic Barometer

• EU27 mortality, preliminary estimates 2023-2024
  • Excess mortality in EU27 continued to decline in 2024
  • Two thirds of deaths in EU27 are among people aged 75 and over, with almost 68% of male and 82% of female live births surviving to age 75 under 2023 mortality conditions
  • Life expectancy at birth in EU27 increased to 81.7 years in 2024, according to preliminary estimates from Eurostat
  • Life expectancy at age 65 in the EU27 increased in 2023 to the 2019 level of 20.2 years
  • Infant mortality in EU27 stabilizes at around 3.3‰

  Q&A

• Medical examinations for all: ghost or reality?
• Life expectancy
• Half of St. Petersburg residents and 44% of Muscovites are against foreign couriers
• One Russian in two is against allowing returning relocants to enter civil service
• Money for life: how the financial situation of Russians has changed

In the vastness of Russia

• Ministry of Labor: it is necessary that women aged 30-39 not have to choose between motherhood and work
• Butskaya: payment of 1 million for a third child is included in the "demographic menu"
• Comprehensive program to increase fertility has been developed in Smolensk region
• The number of large families has more than tripled in the Moscow region since 2012
• VTsIOM head explains increase in average age of marriage in Russia
• Putin orders analysis of calculation of need for medical personnel
• More than 4.4 million Russians under outpatient observation of oncologists
• Skvortsova reports Russian cancer vaccine ready for use
• Russia introduces list of strategically important drugs
• Doctors can prescribe dietary supplements to patients as of September 1
• In Russia, infant mortality rate has decreased to 3.6 ppm
• The region with the highest HIV incidence has been named
• In Moscow, stroke mortality has decreased by 15% in recent years
• Russia will expand program for developing small towns
• Compatriots wanting to move to Russia will receive new rights and benefits
• Bill to ban families of labor migrants from entering Russia has been introduced to Duma
• ANCOR: 76% of Russians are ready to move to another region for work
• LDPR proposes expanding grounds for revocation of acquired citizenship

World News

• Scientists announce halt in growth of human life expectancy
• Cases of death from hot weather in the tropics have been linked to deforestation
• WHO: more than 1 billion people suffer from mental disorders
• UNICEF: One in ten school-age children worldwide suffers from obesity
• The number of deaths from cardiovascular diseases may increase by 73% by 2050
• Nature Medicine: World's first human being receives pig lung transplant
• Trump tightens requirements for drug advertising in US
• Asahi: Japan plans to conduct radical revision of immigration policy
• Financial Times: the number of boats with illegal immigrants crossing into Britain has fallen to a minimum
• Another 250,000 people left Ukraine in the first half of 2025
• "The trend is not very good": Kyiv sounds alarm over departure of young people
• Vance calls influx of illegal migrants the root cause of US problems
• Argentine ambassador announces end of "birth tourism" from Russia

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant on new procedure for registering labor migrants in Moscow and Moscow Region
• Kommersant on surveillance cameras with "ethnicity detection functionality"
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on growing number of workers from distant countries in Russian labor market
• Expert on measures to support fertility
• RBK on regional fines for inciting abortions
• Kommersant on procedure for assessing reproductive health of children and adolescents
• Novi Standard on the impact of population aging on geopolitics
• RIA Novosti on life expectancy forecasts
• TASS on restrictions on alcohol sales in Russian regions
• Kommersant on proposal to reduce the time it takes to review an application for medical care
• Kommersant on rubella immunization
• Kommersant on the impact of whole milk consumption on the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases
• Kommersant on the prevalence of mental illnesses
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on strategies for overcoming poverty
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the impact of climate change on public health in Russian regions
• Kommersant on products hazardous to reproductive health on marketplaces
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on seasonal work in Russia

Read books and magazines

• Avoidable mortality, risk factors and policies for tackling noncommunicable diseases -leveraging data for impact: monitoring commitments in the WHO European region ahead of the fourth united nations high-level meeting
• Chronic respiratory diseases and health equity by 2050
• Integration processes in the Eurasian Economic Union: socio-demographic aspects. For the 10th anniversary of the EAEU
• On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Belgorod region in 2024
• Children in Azerbaijan 2025
• Through the pages of the magazines DEMIS and Ekonomika i Organizatsiya Promyshlennovo Proizvodstva (EKO) (Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (ECO))
• Contents of the magazine Population & Societes

Profession: researcher

• Continuing education courses of the National Research University Higher School of Economics "Demographic Development and Social Policy"

Student Page

• Summer school in Demography - 2025