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Demographic Barometer

• World urbanization trends according to UN 2025 estimates (Part 2)
  • Dynamics of the population living in areas with different degrees of urbanization vary significantly by region.
  • In some regions, the share of the urban population according to national criteria exceeds the combined share of the population of cities and other urban areas according to DEGURBA criteria.
  • Cities are becoming the dominant form of settlement in an increasing number of countries – by 2025, their number increased to 104 out of 237.

Q&A

• The image of Mother in modern society
• Working mothers today need flexible working hours and maternity leave more than financial support
• Family and career
• Healthcare in Russia: monitoring
• Drug addiction prevalence

In the vastness of Russia

• Kremlin believes that demographic shift requires a restructuring of social institutions.
• In Novgorod Region, fertility stops declining for first time in 10 years.
• Communist Party of the Russian Federation proposes lowering the retirement age for mothers of two children.
• CPRF deputies propose paying wages to mothers with five or more children.
• State Duma proposes introducing bill to create progressive maternity capital scale.
• Public Chamber calls for eliminating need criteria for granting support to mothers.
• Public Chamber supports introduction of maternity leave from first trimester of pregnancy.
• Law on abortion prevention is passed in Moscow Region.
• Oldest woman in Russia dies in Yaroslavl at the age of 114.
• Expert Sergeev: The next milestone in life expectancy will be 120 years.
• Murashko: The number of new HIV cases in Russia in 2024 decreased by 11%.
• Academician Pokrovsky: One in every hundred Russians is infected with HIV.
• Anastasia Rakova tells about transition of Moscow hospitals to digital monitoring of all stages of patient treatment
• Putin complicates conditions for issuing compulsory medical insurance policies to migrant workers
• After Operation Illegal-2025, more than 19,000 migrants will be deported
• Russia and Kyrgyzstan want to simplify migration procedures at place of residence
• Manturov: Russia can accept an unlimited number of specialists from India
• Ministry of Internal Affairs: Migrants from Middle East use entry into Russia for transit to EU
• Only 19 percent of migrant children were able to enroll in Russian schools
• Ministry of Internal Affairs: Migrants in the Moscow region must log in to Amina app daily

World News

• Expert Chandran: India's population will stop growing by 2080
• Bloomberg learns of introduction of tax on contraceptives in China to increase birth rate
• Chinese businessman launches fund in Hong Kong to combat fertility crisis
• China Ambassador: Beijing aims to break life expectancy records
• UNAIDS report: Fight against HIV is facing its most serious crisis in recent years
• Half of all people living with HIV in Europe are diagnosed too late
• Human papillomavirus vaccines proven effective in reducing cancer risk
• G20 countries commit to respecting rights of migrant workers and refugees
• NYT: US will pressure allies over immigration policy
• UK authorities intend to tighten rules for legal migrants
• Kalin: Britain's plan for tough immigration reforms appears unrealistic
• Orban: Hungary ready to pay fine of €1 million per day, but will not let in migrants
• The number of people leaving Ukraine has increased by 128,000 in 1.5 months
• Svenska dagbladet: Sweden notes increase in number of young Ukrainian migrants
• Jakarta overtakes Tokyo in ranking of world’s most densely populated cities

The newspapers write about…

• Esli byt’ tochnym on "demographic KPIs" of regional leaders
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on migration policy
• Kommersant on organized recruitment of labor migrants
• Vedomosti on ratification of agreement on medical examinations of migrants from Tajikistan
• Kommersant and RBK on duration of compulsory work after graduating from medical school
• Kommersant on the increase in share of Russians working in their specialty
• Kommersant on Ministry of Labor's forecast for personnel needs
• Vedomosti on robotics in China
• Kommersant and Izvestia on growing demographic burden
• Esli byt’ tochnym on declining availability of HIV statistics
• Kommersant on rapid HIV testing
• Kommersant on HIV prevalence in Russia
• Esli byt’ tochnym on regional HIV incidence and mortality rating
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the incidence of hepatitis C and B
• Vedomosti on the decline in the proportion of smokers
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on tobacco addiction treatment
• Vedomosti on use of AI in finding effective family support measures
• Kommersant on people turning to AI for medical advice
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the fight against male infertility
• Vedomosti and VFokus Mail on a school for future parents
• Izvestia on parents' attitudes toward nannies
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the demand for flexible employment formats among women with children
• Kommersant on Soviet demographic policy
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the problems of small towns
• Kommersant on a new type of diet

Read books and magazines

• 2024 United Nations Demographic Yearbook
• HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2025. 2024 data
• Global tuberculosis report 2025
• WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI): Report on the Sixth Round of Data Collection, 2022-2024
• Youth of Kazakhstan 2020-2024
• Through the pages of the journals Naseleniye i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and Povolzhskiy Onkologicheskiy Vestnik (Povolzhsky Oncological Bulletin)
• Contents of the Journal of Marriage and Family

Profession: researcher

• Evaluation of the impact of proactive demographic policy in Russia. Seminar of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research INU HSE
• “Behavioral risk factors for the development of non-communicable diseases in Russia". Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography "Demographic challenges of the XXI century”
• Influence of marriage and divorce on fertility and family-demographic policy in Russia. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists