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Demographic Barometer

• Reproduction of the urban and rural population of Russia
  • Both the urban and rural populations of Russia are aging - by 2024, the average age of both had increased to 41 years
  • According to estimates at the beginning of 2024, 17.0% of the urban population and 17.4% of the rural population had reached the age of 65 and older
  • In 2023, the total fertility rate of the urban population was 1.36, and of the rural population - 1.57
  • In 2023, life expectancy at birth for the urban population increased to 73.9 years, and for the rural population to 72.1 years
  • In rural areas, mortality from external causes and respiratory diseases is higher than in cities, but mortality from neoplasms is lower
  • The urban population has been reproducing at a reduced rate since the 1960s, and the rural population since the 1990s.

Q&A

• Raising the retirement age has made Russians appreciate more the help of grandmothers in raising grandchildren
• Financial assistance to relatives
• Why don't Russians want to get married?
• Should both spouses belong to the same culture?
• Most people in the world believe that the gender of a child does not matter, but regional and social differences persist.

In the vastness of Russia

• In 2025, 1.37 million families used maternity capital funds
• Russia plans to update model of housing support for families.
• In Russia, it will be prohibited to obtain two preferential mortgages for one family starting in February.
• State Duma calls for increasing training of specialists in demography
• State Duma announces the number of fathers on paternity leave
• Ministry of Education and Science wants to open more than 1,000 children's rooms in universities by 2030.
• In Russia, the number of HPV infections has increased by 2.5 times in 10 years.
• Mortality from diseases of the circulatory system has decreased by 31% in 15 years.
• Anemia and depression. Top questions Russians ask AI about health
• Almost 6 million Russians checked their reproductive health in 2025
• Murashko notes absence of an increase in infertility cases in Russia
• In State Duma a call to abandon registry of pregnant women
• Ministry of Health: all data in new register of pregnant women will be reliably protected
• Ministry of Health proposes introducing at least two visits to a psychologist during pregnancy
• Non-invasive prenatal testing may be introduced for all pregnant women
• Rules for preventive medical examinations of children have changed in Russia
• In State Duma a warning about risks of applying laws prohibiting incitement to abortion
• "Emergency Demographic Assistance" launched in Nizhny Novgorod region
• Ministry of Labor proposes increasing quota for hiring foreigners by 19%
• More than 600,000 migrants underwent a socio-cultural adaptation course in 2025
• Medvedev says migrants should leave Russia when their job is done
• In State Duma a proposal to allow migrants into country only with a medical certificate and insurance policy
• More than 12,000 violations of migration legislation were identified in Moscow
• Moscow City Duma increases cost of work license for migrants to 10,000 rubles
• Reshetnikov: foreign labor is becoming scarce in the global economy

World News

• Scientists report abrupt slowdown in growth of life expectancy
• Up to 30% of women of reproductive age worldwide are overweight
• Scientists estimate number of deaths from heat worldwide at 550,000
• The number of steps one needs to walk to slow down Alzheimer's disease
• The Maldives introduce ban on tobacco use for those born after 2007
• US Department of Health questions link between paracetamol and autism
• Aktuality: Slovakia proposes annulling marriages of those changing gender
• Ukraine had between 28 million and 30 million inhabitants in 2024
• Ukraine announces acute shortage of personnel
• Germany calls for halt to influx of refugees from Ukraine
• German Interior Minister says migrants have changed the face of German cities
• Vance: The US has accepted too many migrants in recent years
• Latvian Seim approves withdrawal from convention on protecting women from violence

The newspapers write about…

• TASS, Izvestia and Kommersant on meeting of the Council for the Implementation of State Demographic and Family Policy
• Kommersant on increasing the quota for qualified migrants
• Novye Izvestia on teaching the Russian language to migrant children
• Vedomosti on measures to increase fertility
• Izvestia on need to modernize maternity capital
• Izvestia on proposal to expand payments to families with children
• Kommersant on new procedure for providing medical care to pregnant women
• Esli byt’ tochnym on abortion
• RBK on fines for encouraging abortions
• Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on preserving reproductive health and diagnosing congenital pathologies
• Eslli byt’ tochnym and Kommersant on the shortage of doctors
• Kommersant on the use of AI in medicine
• Kommersant on quality control of medical care
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on single-person households
• Novye Izvestia on population growth in Russia and other countries

Read books and magazines

• Ethnic groups in the space of modern Russia (the municipal dimension)
• Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2024 (morbidity)
• State report "On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Perm region in 2024"
• WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2025: warning about the dangers of tobacco
• Eurostat regional yearbook. 2025 edition
• From the pages of the journals Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Healthcare of the Russian Federation) and Voprosy Onkologii (Issues of Oncology)
• Contents of the journal Studies in Family Planning

Profession: researcher

• Balance of labor resources as a way to integrate macroeconomic and demographic forecasts. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists
• Vitaly Semenovich Belozerov turns 75!