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Current topic: Uzbekistan: current demographic trends

• The population growth rate is decreasing

• Favorable changes in the age structure

• The weak pace of urbanization

• Age at marriage is increasing

• Big families have been replaced by middle-sized ones

• The preference for many children is decreasing, but traditions of big families are still alive

• Positive trends in mortality

• Economic migration replacing repatriation

• Instead of a conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

The demographic situation in the CIS, 2013

• The share of CIS countries at the beginning of 2014 accounted for 4% of world population

• Natural growth continues to play a crucial role in changing the population of most countries of the CIS

• Differences in fertility are gradually being reduced, but remain significant

• Despite a decline, mortality in CIS countries remains relatively high

• The greatest impact on the change in the mortality level comes from cardiovascular disease and external causes of death

• At the beginning of 2014 19% of the population of the CIS were children under the age of 15; 11% were seniors 65 years and older

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The state of human capital in Uzbekistan

• On the issue of fertility in Uzbekistan

• The effect of mortality on the life expectancy of people of working age in Uzbekistan

• Demographic development of Uzbekistan in the long term

• Modern trends in the demographic situation in Kazakhstan

• Training skilled workers in the system of specialized secondary education and finding jobs for them in Uzbekistan

• Uzbek labor migration from southern Kirgizia to Russia and its influence on gender relations

• Distinctive features of the implementation of migration processes and their impact on the socio-economic and demographic development of Kirgizia

Q&A

• The optimum age for childbearing

• A healthy lifestyle and how to follow it

• Trusting doctors

• Russian Ministry of Health and its leader: initiatives, achievements, assessments

• Restricting the right to travel outside Russia

• Time to get out?

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural population growth this year was 27.2 thousand people

• Crimeans were active during the census

• Putin extends pension savings co-financing program to 2015

• Funds from pensioner support program may be used for their computer literacy campaign

• In 2015 all social benefits will be indexed at 5%

• In 2015 53 regions will receive support from the budget for third child allowance

• Putin abolishes “salary slavery”

• Government creates unified record keeping system for Russian students

• Russian state “An accessible environment” program  extended to 2020

• Over 60 thousand Russian children adopted in the US over past 20 years

• Russia may increase the minimum length of stay for foreigners without visas

• FMS notes a complication of the migration situation in Crimea

• Putin shares the concern of trade unions over the possible cancellation of quotas for foreigners

• Territories of Priority Development should attract migrants with patents on equal terms with other regions

• Over 6 million citizens of Central Asia come to Russia each year

• Over 2.5 million citizens of Ukraine are located in Russia

• Over 235 thousand citizens of Ukraine have applied for temporary asylum in Russia

• The refugee status of Ukrainians in Russia may be adjusted

• Refugees in Russia can receive Russian pensions

• Forced migrants from Ukraine will receive free medical care in Russia

• During the “Migrant 2014” operation in Moscow over 50 thousand foreigners were checked

• Barring illegals from entering Russia saves thousands of dollars

• Russia takes first place for preventing the HIV infection of children

• Maternal mortality in Russia has dropped to historic lows

• State Duma deputies propose to forbid the sale of tobacco to persons under 21

• Deputies propose to ban free abortions to increase the population density

• Proposal for compulsory treatment of TB patients prior to a court decision

• In Russia a noticeable increase in mortality from diseases of the digestive and respiratory systems

• In Russia head injuries kill over 1.5 thousand children a year

• Government officials will be given health care on special terms

• As a result of  Moscow hospital reform no fewer than 60 thousand beds will remain

• Doctors at Moscow demonstration demanded to stop healthcare reform

• Sacked Moscow doctors will be offered jobs in the provinces

Eurasian panorama

• In eastern Ukraine 3,724 have already been killed

• Armenia is in 95^th place in world well-being ranking

• Kazakhs earn more than people in many European countries

• Belarusian authorities have increased child benefits as of 1 November

• Ukrainian authorities have explained how residents of Donbass can receive social benefits

• Donetsk authorities continue to transfer funds to Ukraine’s pension fund

• In the Donetsk People’s Republic will pensions be paid with Russian humanitarian aid?

• Kirgiz President considers joining the Customs Union a “lesser evil”

• Kazakhstan leads in Central Asia in terms of volume of humanitarian aid to other countries

• Yatsenyuk announces second phase of Ukraine “lustration”

• Kazakhs will be urged to move to the north of the country

• Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs promises to start production of biometric passports as of January 1, 2015

• Kazakhstan proposes to set quotas for migrants based on the number of workers in the industry

• Chisinau asks Russian authorities to explain changes in the rules for Moldovan migrants

• Migrants can now buy a patent for work in Russia right in Kirgizia

• Labor migrants from Uzbekistan have begun settling in Crimea in large numbers

• Most labor migrants from Georgia unlikely to leave Russia

• Armenia does not rule out return of migrants due to sanctions against Russia

• Uzbek citizens are more likely than others to violate Russian migration regime

• Kirgizia has managed to get over a thousand of its citizens removed from Russia’s “black list”

• Migration Offices of Russia and Belarus to discuss assisting immigrants from Ukraine

• Volume of remittances to Moldova reaches record highs

• In Armenian hospitals an excess of medical staff

World news

• By 2070 world population will reach its peak

• Has world population growth reached a catastrophic magnitude?

• In Switzerland a replacement found for antibiotics

• Estonia faces marked decrease in population by 2040

• Fertility in Southern Italy has reached its lowest ever since 1861

• Norway recognized as most prosperous country in world

• 50% of working Americans earn less than $28,000 a year

• UN chief warns of possible return of famine in Somalia

• North Korea still in need of food aid

• New York: in terms of hotel prices, the most expensive big city in the world

• Unemployment in the euro zone in September was 11.5%

• Unemployment in Germany in October remained at September level

• UN wants to do away with the phenomenon of statelessness

• Estonia rejects simplified procedure for obtaining citizenship

• Latvian Parliament approves end to issuing of residence permits to citizens of the Russian Federation

• Latvia no longer interests the Chinese

• Turkey introduces new requirements for validity period of foreign travel passports

• US tightens inspections of tourists from countries with visa-free entry

• UK gets more from migrants than it spends on them

• Most asylum seekers in Montenegro are refugees from Syria

• Germany will allocate additional 500 million euros in aid to Syrian refugees

• More than 1,200 Iraqis killed in October

• WHO lowers the number Ebola victims to 4,818 people

• Ebola vaccine will be used in Africa as early as January 2015

• Australia temporarily not accepting African refugees due to Ebola

• Bill Gates donates more than $500 million to fight malaria in the poorest countries

• Lung cancer “catches up” with smokers after 30 years

• In Lithuania, the level of family violence is not going down

• China wants to abolish death penalty for nine types of crime

• Having children does not make people happy for long

The newspapers write about…

• “Ogonyok” and “Salon” on the growth of the world population

• “Vedomosti” on natural population growth in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on the fate of the maternity capital

• “Gazeta.ru” on mortality from infections

• “Project Syndicate” on the danger of Ebola for India

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” the incidence of HIV in Moscow and a vaccine against it

• “Vedomosti”, “Kommersant” and “Novaya Gazeta” on health care reform

• “Den” on problems with the rejection of methadone therapy in Crimea

• “Ekspress-K” on baby-boxes in Kazakhstan

• “Ekho” on Azerbaijan’s shift to new criteria of live birth

• “Gazeta.ru” on the demographic role of migration in Moscow

• “Izvestiya” on restrictions on foreign labor in certain sectors

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on migration and national security

• “Ekho Moskvy” on the attitude towards illegal migrants

• “Russkiy Reporter” on the “island of illegals”

• “Biznes & Baltiya” and “Telegraph” on immigration in the UK

• “Lenta.ru” and “The New York Times” on the preoccupation with the ethnicity of rich Russians

• “Los Angeles Times” on the condition of Africans in Russia

• “Russkiy Reporter” on Syrian refugees in Russia

• “Kommersant” on proposals for the support of Ukrainian refugees

• “Kommersant-Dengi” and “Kommersant” on refugees in the Khabarovsk region and “extremism”

• “Kommersant” on the Union of Refugees of Ukraine

• “Gazeta.ru” on the impact of migration from eastern Ukraine on the housing market in the major cities of Ukraine

• “World Politics Review” on Russian speakers in the Baltic States

• “Ekho” on problems with trips abroad for inhabitants of the Crimea

• “Gazeta.ru” on the growth of emigration from Russia

• “Vedomosti” on 25 million potential rural dwellers

• “Polit.ru” on northern allowances

• “Kommersant” on the wellbeing of Russia’s population

• “Slon.ru” on poverty in Russia

• “La Stampa” on euthanasia in Switzerland

Read books and magazines

• Youth in the Commonwealth of Independent States: a statistical portrait

• Situation of older women in Ukraine

• Trends in health systems in the former Soviet countries

• Multistate analysis of life histories with R

• Eurostat regional yearbook 2014

• Through the pages of the journals “Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny” (“Problems of social hygiene, health and the history of medicine”) and “Rossiya i sovremenny mir” (“Russia and the modern world”)

• Contents of the “Journal of Population Economics”

Profession: researcher

• 165 years since the birth of Nikolai Alekseevich Kablukov

• N.A. Kablukov. The census

New in the reading room

• N.A. Kablukov.  A short essay on population statistics

Satirical column

• A Russian demographic renaissance: spring is gone, summer is here, let’s give the Party a great big cheer!