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Demographic barometer

• The world's least developed countries: demographic past, present and future (part 1)
  • By 2023, the population of the least developed countries will exceed 14% of the world's population, and by mid-century, according to the average version of the UN forecast, it will increase to 20%.
  • Total fertility in the least developed countries of the world has dropped to 4 children per woman, ranging from 2 or less to 6 children or more
  • Life expectancy at birth has risen in the world's least developed countries to 65 years, ranging from 53 to 72 years

Q&A

• Family as a value
• 56% of Russians believe that a family is a family only with a child
• On gender inequality and maternity leave for men
• Fewer gender stereotypes in the labor market
• Russians name country’s best regions

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural population decrease in the Russian Federation from January to November was 438,000 people
• The number of large families over the past 5 years has increased by 27%
• Budget expenditures on national projects in 2023 were completed by 99.2%
• Gap between rich and poor has narrowed
• Maternity capital for first child will be indexed to 630,400 rubles
• Matkapital in 2023 was most often used to improve living conditions
• Going on maternity leave in the first trimester of pregnancy is unlikely to affect fertility
• State Duma deputy proposes punishment for divorce
• Matvienko proposes renaming Ministry of Labor
• State Duma does not support prohibiting mobilization of fathers with three children
• The number of informally employed Russians has grown to 14.2 million people
• Shortage of personnel in agriculture will be 30–50 thousand people by 2030
• Court bans “only for Slavs” job ads
• Citizenship by birth will not yet be revoked
• Consular registration for Russians abroad is proposed to be made mandatory
• Foreign graduates of Russian universities will be eligible for simplified residence permit
• Ministry of Health is against expansion of alcohol trade
• Alcohol production has decreased in Russia
• The number of road accidents involving children has increased in Russia
• Some employers refuse to employ obese people
• Russia hosts its first wedding using biometrics

World News

• China's population will fall by 2.08 million in 2023
• 58% of children aged 0 to 6 years in Switzerland have a “migration” background
• Poverty rate in Ukraine returns to 2002 level
• Ukraine will reduce the number of universities, but improve their quality
• 2023 could be the year of minimum global unemployment
• Moldova announces influx of Russians seeking citizenship
• About 10 million Ukrainians forced to leave homes due to fighting
• Almost 4.3 million Ukrainian refugees in EU countries
• Orban says Hungary will not accept migrants
• British House of Commons passes bill to expel illegal immigrants to Rwanda
• New York authorities impose curfew on asylum seekers
• Kenya ready to send 10,000 labor migrants to Russia
• Climate change could reduce life expectancy of world's population
• Global cancer incidence getting younger
• American scientists testing new method of treating neuroblastoma in children
• Latvia passes same-sex marriage law

The newspapers write about…

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Forbes on measures to increase fertility
• News.ru and Izvestia on large families
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Novye Izvestia and RBK on Russia’s population decline
• Kommersant and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the concept of migration policy until 2025
• Novye Izvestia and RBK on shortage of street cleaners
• Kommersant on intention to expand the list of acts leading to termination of acquired citizenship
• News.ru on crime among migrants
• Novye Izvestia on restricting access to the labor market for migrants
• Kommersant on the need to respect migrants’ labor rights
• Novye Izvestia on the shortage of personnel and the demand for young people
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the aging workforce
• Kommersant on an increase in the number of female sterilizations
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on Russians’ state of health
• News.ru on available compulsory medical insurance services
• Kommersant on the growing number of people with alcohol addiction
• Izvestia on proposal to allow the sale of alcohol in markets
• News.ru on major chronic diseases
• Izvestia on the risk of new pandemics
• Kommersant on the increase in the incidence of whooping cough
• Kommersant on the impact of COVID on the aging of brain cells
• TASS on reducing inequality
• Vedomosti on reducing the prevalence of tobacco smoking
• Izvestia on child mortality in road accidents and its prevention
• RBK on the economic damage from premature mortality
• IQ on the tradition of preferring sons in Caucasian countries
• Forbes on divorce among the elderly
• Novye Izvestia on housing security
• Vedomosti, Novye Izvestia, Izvestia on the demographic situation and challenges of China
• Al Jazeera on Italy's demographic crisis

Read books and magazines

• Healthcare in Russia. 2023
• WHO global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000-2030
• Mortality trends by causes of death in the Republic of Moldova, 1965-2020
• Women and men of Kazakhstan 2018-2022
• Pensions at a glance 2023
• Through the pages of the magazines Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Healthcare of the Russian Federation) and Povolzhsky Onkologicheskiy Vestnik (Povolzhsky Oncology Bulletin)
• Contents of the magazine Demography

Profession: researcher

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