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Demographic barometer

• Main international migration flows according to UN estimates for 2024
  • Largest flows of international migration are from less developed to more developed countries.
  • Most international migrants move to higher-income countries.
  • About half of international migrants move within their region of origin; emigration to other regions is most common among migrants from Central and South Asia, North America, and Latin America.
  • 98% of international migrants living in North America are from other SDG regions, 88% in Oceania, 57% in North Africa and West Asia, 52% in Europe, and less than 36% in other regions

Q&A

• 3 out of 10 women with above-average salaries believe that marriage is not necessary to have a child
• Family secrets: Russians on domestic violence
• Russians are increasingly encountering cancer around them, but are not getting preventative checkups
• Work without borders
• One in four permanently employed Russians has a part-time job

In the vastness of Russia

• Chechnya will become fertility leader in Russia in 2024
• In 2027, maternity benefits will reach 1 million rubles
• Minister of Labor announces new measures to support families with children
• Minister of Labor announces plans to change maternity capital model
• State Duma comes up with way to improve maternity capital to increase fertility
• Bill on free travel for pregnant women is introduced in State Duma
• State Duma proposes reducing workday for pregnant women without cutting salaries
• LDPR proposes creating support service for single fathers
• Bill on allocating land to Russians after ten years of marriage is introduced in State Duma
• Butskaya believes social nannies could become federal standard
• Fadeyev: Uzbekistan's experience combating polygamy would be useful for Russia
• State Duma urges doctors to educate women about contraception
• In Russia, infant mortality rate drops to 3.5 per thousand
• Rector of Sechenov University describes path to increasing life expectancy
• Federation Council proposes collecting 45,000 rubles per year from unemployed Russians for compulsory medical insurance
• Ministry of Labor announces increase in insurance pensions to 27,100 rubles in 2026
• Ministry of Internal Affairs will register children of migrants not enrolled in schools
• Proposal to give certain categories of migrant children Russian language test
• Ministry of Internal Affairs: cards of migrants included in the register of controlled persons are blocked

World News

• Malta, Taiwan, and Spain top list of countries with lowest fertility rate
• 30 years since Beijing Declaration on Women's Rights: achievements, obstacles, and a way forward
• WHO: Europe leads in adult smoking rates
• Germany calls for tighter European asylum policy
• In Greece, a call for European Union to tighten immigration policy
• Reuters learns of plans to tighten rules for migrants in UK
• CBS: US detains lowest number of migrants at Mexican border in half a century
• Spanish Prime Minister: EU economy will stagnate without migrants
• Europe on the brink of a personnel crisis: who treats Europeans and why is the WHO worried?
• The Philippines is ready to send migrant workers to Russia, ambassador says
• Swiss authorities extend status of protection for Ukrainian refugees.

The newspapers write about…

• Novye Izvestia on cutting healthcare costs
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on amendments to Compulsory Medical Insurance Law
• Kommersant on the future of medicine in Moscow
• Kommersant on the unpopularity of cancer screening
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the impact of environmental problems on health
• Kommersant on the growth of the medical data market
• Novye Izvestia on the fight against aging and longevity
• Novye Izvestia on financial security in old age
• Kommersant on the prevalence of mental disorders
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the Russian language test for children of foreigners
• RBK on Germany ending fast-track citizenship
• Kommersant on home births
• Izvestia on the increase in maternity, childbirth, and childcare benefits
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Russians' attitudes toward contraception
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on China's record-breaking level of robotics

Read books and magazines

• Demographic Yearbook of Kazakhstan
• On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in Krasnoyarsk Krai in 2024
• Population, environment, and disease
• Reproductive health of adolescents and young people in Kazakhstan
• Migration management indicators: 2025 profile - Republic of Belarus
• Through the pages of the journals Demographic Review and Obshchestvennoye Zdorovye (Public Health)
• Contents of the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Profession: researcher

• The place of the conditional generation in modern Demography. Seminar of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics
• 115th Anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Yakovlevich Sonin