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Demographic Barometer

• Preliminary demographic results for 2023 in Russia (part I)
  • The population of Russia at the beginning of 2024 was 146.2 million people, having decreased by 0.2% in 2023
  • Natural decline came to 495 thousand people, with a 51% compensation from migration increase
  • According to preliminary data, in 2023 the population decreased in 62 out of 85 regions of the federation
  • The number of births continues to decline, dropping to 1,265,000 people, or by 8.7‰ for January-December 2023
  • The total fertility rate according to data for January-December 2023 varied in the regions of Russia from 6‰ to 20‰

Current reviews and commentary

• Main changes in legislation in the field of international migration and acquisition of citizenship of the Russian Federation, 2023-2024: new legal norms, draft laws and discussion
• Review of recent changes in migration legislation in a number of foreign countries

Q&A

• The formula of love - 2024
• After the birth of a child, one in four women begin paying less attention to their career, one in five – paying more
• The ideal age to have your first child
• Surrogacy: pros and cons
• Support for abortion rights is widespread, especially in Europe
• Russians update ranking of cities to retire in

In the vastness of Russia

• The population of Russia in 2023 decreased by 244 thousand people
• By 2046, Moscow and the region will experience its greatest natural population decline
• Putin considers it necessary for families to be “born earlier” in Russia
• Russians name ideal age to start a family
• Since 2020, 1.9 million families have received maternity capital at the birth of their first child
• Unemployment in the Russian Federation in December 2023 was 3%
• In 2023, the main problem for most employers was finding employees
• Plan to resettle Russians from megacities is doomed to failure
• Among cities with a population of over a million, it is most profitable to move to a private house in Omsk, Kazan and Krasnoyarsk
• Net migration in Russia has decreased by 90 thousand people
• Bill on conscription of 50-year-old migrants is withdrawn from State Duma
• Murashko reports breakthrough in cancer treatment in Russia
• In 2024 IVF procedure will become more accessible
• Rejection of new WHO classification of diseases explained by traditional values

World News

• The population of Poland decreased by 137 thousand people in 2023
• Fertility in Ukraine has been falling for 10 years
• Ukraine needs “powerful immigration”
• Each additional year of education reduces the risk of early death by 2%
• India has become world's fastest growing economy
• US economy growing faster than in European countries
• The number of jobs in the United States in January grew significantly more than expected
• Only a fifth of Ukrainian refugees in Germany work
• Finland will extend border crossing restrictions with Russia for another two months
• Texas building barriers on border with Mexico due to influx of migrants
• Trump announces plans to close US border if re-elected
• Vilnius schools will no longer teach Russian as a second language
• Mongolia ranks first in the world in cancer mortality
• WHO predicts increase in cancer incidence in the world

The newspapers write about…

• Novye Izvestia and Kommersant FM on internal migration
• Lenta.ru, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Kommersant on the problem of youth migration from small towns
• Kommersant on the results of the resettlement program for compatriots
• Novye Izvestia on the creation of migrant autonomies
• RBK on migration outflow from new regions
• TASS and Novye Izvestia on the history of restrictions on the retail sale of alcohol
• Vedomosti on import substitution in medicine
• Kommersant on the development of geriatric care
• Kommersant on problems with the purchase of drugs for the treatment of HIV
• Novye Izvestia on a cancer vaccine
• Izvestia on the need to increase age limit in program to ensure availability of expensive drugs
• Esli byt’ tochnym on mortality from fires
• Vedomosti on the shortage of personnel in medicine
• Novye Izvestia on the shortage of nannies
• Kommersant on the growing demand for child psychologists and specialists in the fight against alcohol addiction
• Kommersant on employers filling vacancies with their own employees
• Izvestia on obstetrics and motherhood
• Izvestia on proposal to toughen penalties for absence of child restraints in car
• Novye Izvestia on the reduction in the number of schools
• Novye Izvestia on the decrease in the number of pensioners
• Novye Izvestia on a decline in the well-being of Russians in the last decade
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on families' food costs
• Lenta.ru on ageism

Read books and magazines

• Labor and employment in Russia. 2023
• Families in Austria. Partnerships, fertility intentions and economic situation in challenging times
• Russian society and state in the context of the emergence of a new world order: the demographic situation in 2022
• The Kazakhstan city: a socio-demographic view
• Can people afford to pay for health care?
• Through the pages of the magazines DEMIS and ORGZDRAV: novosti, mneniya, obuchenie. Vestnik VShOUZ (ORGZDRAV: news, opinions, training. Bulletin of the Higher School of Public Health)
• Contents of the journal Population Studies

Profession: researcher

• Modern demographic trends in Kazakhstan. Seminar of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics

New in the reading room

• Questions of sanitary and medical statistics