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Demographic barometer

• Population Aging Worldwide According to the UN 2024 Estimates
  • The Older Population Continues to Grow Faster Than the Population at Younger and Middle Ages
  • The Older Population Is Growing Particularly Rapidly in the Less Developed Regions of the World
  • The Share of the World’s Population Aged 65 and Over Increased to 10% in 2023 and, According to the UN Medium Projection Variant, Will Exceed 16% by 2050
  • The Old-Age Dependency Ratio Continues to Increase, While the Young-Age Dependency Ratio Continues to Decline
  • At Current Mortality Levels, 73% of Boys and 82% of Girls Survive to Age 65, and 25% and 39%, Respectively, Survive to Age 85
  • Life Expectancy at Age 65 Increased to 16 Years for Men and 19 Years for Women
  • Among the World’s Population Aged 65–74, There Are 87 Men per 100 Women, Compared with 53 Among Those Aged 85 and Over

Q&A

• Family by the Rules and Without Them: Russia and the United States
• Where Is Old Age Going?
• Russians Are Talking About Dementia More Often, but Only 10% of Families Reach the Diagnosis Stage
• Parents of Schoolchildren Want to Work from Home
• Russians Are Increasingly Dreaming of Relocating After Retirement

In the vastness of Russia

• 10 Trillion Rubles Will Be Allocated to Fertility Support Measures over Three Years
• Fifteen Regions Have Introduced Payments to Student Families upon the Birth of a Child
• Murashko Reported How Many Children Are Born in Russia Each Year with the Help of IVF
• Summer 2026 in Moscow Set a 10-Year Record for the Number of Marriages
• The First Training Program for Employees of Regional Demographic Centers Has Begun
• More Than 10 Million Russians Have Undergone Reproductive Health Screening under Compulsory Health Insurance
• Murashko Reported an Increase in the Detection of Cancer at Early Stages
• Doctor Tkacheva Named One of the Main Risk Factors for Brain Aging
• The Ministry of Internal Affairs Identified Occupations for the Employment of Foreign Nationals Outside the Quota System
• Sobyanin Presented the Results of the Migration System’s Work
• In Russia, 13,500 People Have Relocated under the Compatriot Resettlement Program
• Russia Sees No Prospects for Attracting Migrants from Afghanistan

World News

• UN Report: Adolescent Pregnancy Is a Preventable Crisis
• WHO: The Number of Deaths from Dementia Has Tripled
• WHO: The Number of Heat-Related Deaths Has Increased by More Than 60% Since the 1990s
• Road Injuries Have Become the Leading Cause of Death Among Males Aged 10–39
• The EU Will Introduce Mandatory Cardiac Examinations for Young People
• The Number of Migrants Arriving in Europe Has Declined by 39%
• Spain Said It Would Not Turn “Migrants into Enemies”
• Welt: The New Asylum System Has Not Helped Germany Curb Migration
• Bild Reported on Measures Adopted in the EU Following the Migration Crisis in Ceuta
• WP has learned that the U.S. has allocated $410 million to accommodate migrants the U.S. has deported
• Supreme Court Allows Trump to Deport Migrants to Third Countries
• UN Experts: U.S. Scheme to Transfer Migrants to Other Countries Is Leading to a “Cascade of Human Rights Violations”

The newspapers write about

• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" on Tightening Migration Legislation
• "Vedomosti" on Combating Population Outflow from Single-Industry Towns
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" on the Growing Number of Russians in Southeast Asia
• "Econs" on Rising Income Inequality in an Era of Population Ageing
• "Vedomosti" on Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" on the Increasing Prevalence of Cancer
• "Izvestia" on Rising Mortality Due to Extreme Heat
• "Izvestia" on the Life Expectancy of People with Mental Disorders
• "Kommersant" on the Increase in the Average Age of Doctors
• "Izvestia" on Payments to Mother Heroines
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" on the Prospects for Reducing the Gender Pay Gap
• "Esli byt Tochnym" on Convicted Persons as People Without a Regular Source of Income
• "Vedomosti" on the Need to Introduce Restrictions on Children’s Use of Social Media
• "Kommersant" on New WHO Recommendations on Contraception
• "Vedomosti" on the Priorities of Russian Youth
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" on the Proactive Medical Examination Program in Moscow
• "RIA Novosti" on the Demographic Situation in Moscow During the Great Patriotic War

Read books and magazines

• On the State of Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-Being of the Population in Krasnoyarsk Krai in 2025
• Monitoring progress on universal health coverage and the health-related sustainable development goals in the South-East Asia region: 2026 update
• V. P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky. An Essay in Higher Geography. Selected Works on Anthropogeography and Theoretical Geography. Volume 1
• From the Pages of the Journals "DEMIS" and "Health, Demography, Ecology of Finno-Ugric Peoples"
• Contents of the Journal "Population"

Profession - researcher

• Fertility Research in Russia Through the Lens of Real Cohorts: A Bayesian Approach and Regional Specifics. Seminar of the HSE International Laboratory for Population and Health Research
• 75th Anniversary of the Birth of Evgeny Lvovich Soroko