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Current topic: China’s demographic prospects

Part one

• A not very rich country with a huge population

• Sources of data on the population of China

• Life expectancy is probably overestimated

• The structure of causes of death attests to the unfinished first epidemiological transition

• Future problems of the elderly population

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Morbidity of Russia’s population, 2013-2014

• In 2013 the morbidity of Russia’s population continued to grow

• In 2014 the incidence of acute upper respiratory tract infections decreased, while acute intestinal infections and viral hepatitis increased

• The incidence of tuberculosis and HIV have become the same

• In 2013 the incidence of adolescent drug and substance abuse increased again

• In 2014, 279 thousand people were injured and 27 thousand people died in road accidents

Through the eyes of the analysts

• New aspects of the demographic situation in China

• A Chinese adult: superhero or eternal child?

• The global Chinese diaspora and Russia’s new conception of migration

• Quality of Life Conference in the BRICS countries

• Iran: Political and demographic development as a factor of stability and upheavals

Q&A

• Marriage in Russia: Yesterday and today

• Doctors, hospitals and medicine: the medical problems of Russians

• Working Russians are for the stability of the pensions system

• The gender composition of candidates for leadership positions

In the vastness of Russia

• Average life expectancy in Moscow is 6 years more than in Russia as a whole

• The number of Russians preferring to be

• single than married has increased three-fold since 1989

• Rosstat proposes to make participation in the census mandatory

• The fate of the funded part of the pensions will be determined before May

• Have mandatory retirement savings proven not very effective?

• The head of the Bank of Russia considers it necessary to keep mandatory pension savings

• Real wages have declined by 9%

• Social pensions in Russia have increased by 10.3%

• About 11% of Russians receive their whole salary “in an envelope”

• Legalization of the labor market will help to avoid a deficit of the Russian Pension Fund

• Russia ranks sixth in the world intellectual property ranking

• On the Russian labor market the professions most in demand are laborers

• The number of job openings in Russia since December has fallen by more than half

• The number of registered unemployed in January increased by 12%

• Total unemployment has risen to 5.8%

• State institutions are so far coping with the difficult situation on the labor market

• In 2014 the number of unemployed in Chechnya decreased to nearly 100 thousand people

• State Duma will consider a bill to simplify granting of Russian citizenship to Ukrainians

• Bureaucracy hinders Russian-speaking foreigners from acquiring Russian citizenship

• Foreigners criticizing Russia may be barred from entry

• State Duma may make migrants liable for working outside their profession

• Russian language exam for migrants to Russia to become more difficult

• In the south of Moscow, a Russian language testing center for migrants has closed

• HIV incidence in the Crimea is one and a half times higher than in other regions of Russia

• The number of Russian smokers has decreased

• Mortality of drug users in Russia has decreased by half

• Mortality from cardiovascular diseases in Russia has decreased by 40%

• Annual checkups have increased the detection of serious diseases by 50%

• More than 50% of Russians over 30 are overweight

• The Union of Pediatricians of Russia has supports the idea of abortions no longer being covered by state health insurance

• Ministry of Health explains why Russians have begun dying more often in hospitals

• Russian hotline set up for complaints regarding pain medications

Eurasian panorama

• Deficit of Ukraine’s pension fund has reached $3.4 billion

• Are about 6 million working Ukrainians below the poverty line?

• Since the beginning of 2015 GDP of Kirgizia has increased by 7%, inflation by 1.5%

• Inflation in Belarus for the first quarter increased by 5%

• More than 670 thousand people in Ukraine urgently need food

• Pension payments have begun in Lugansk

• Georgia will move to state system of mandatory health insurance

• 1.3% of the economically active population of the EAEC are registered unemployed

• Lukashenko signs “decree on parasites”

• Russian citizens face receiving status of “Belarusian parasite”

• Around 150,000 people were employed in Kazakhstan as part of employment program

• Tajik citizens are not required to give up their citizenship when obtaining Russian citizenship

• The priority of the Union State of Russia and Belarus is migration policy

• The President of Transnistria has repealed a number of measures to tighten immigration control

• The number of Tajik citizens in Russia since the beginning of the year has decreased by 7%

• Every year about 200 thousand Armenian citizen travel to Russia for temporary work

• About 60-70% of migrants from Kirgizia are youth

• The number of labor migrants from Tajikistan over past two months has decreased by 13.4%

• The conflict in Ukraine has made 1,700,000 people refugees

• Moldovan authorities have not yet begun to tax remittances of migrant workers

• Kirgizia asks Russia to exempt migrants from Russia language exam

• Uzbek woman, the country’s oldest resident, dies at the age of 135

World news

• By 2050 the number of Muslims in the world will nearly equal that of Christians

• Subsistence level in Estonia is 203 euros

• 10% of young Danes are insolvent

• Estonia promises to increase child benefits

• After 2020, Latvia will be in short supply of workers

• Italy continues to break records in Europe for the number of unemployed

• Almost one in ten Lithuanians of working age is unemployed

• Macedonia introduces visa-free regime for citizens of Russia

• Cameron promises to reduce the number of migrants entering the UK

• In Finland, immigrants have been divided into “useful” and “harmful”

• Economic migration from Venezuela is growing

• In 2014, 866 thousand applications for asylum were filed in industrialized countries

• The EU country most inhospitable to refugees is Estonia

• The number of internally displaced persons in Iraq has reached 3 million

• International community will have a hard time coping with the influx of refugees from Iraq

• Latvian ombudsman speaks out against government funding of ethnic minority schools

• Nearly 1,000 people were killed in Iraq in March

• The number of victims of the bombing in Yemen has risen to 560 people

• The number of victims of the Ebola virus in West Africa has exceeded 10.5 thousand people

• Lithuania to ban smoking even in private cars

• The number of cancer patients in Latvia has grown by 39% over last ten years

• Will a genetically modified polio virus be able to cure brain cancer?

• British doctors expect epidemics of diseases against which antibiotics are powerless

• Scientists have discovered dangerous mutations in the genome of most people

• About a quarter of a million Chinese have been affected by flood

• One-fifth of Danes in favor of returning the death penalty

• In Japan, the planet’s oldest inhabitant has died

The newspapers write about…

• “Gazeta.ru” on the risks of poverty for families with children

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on poverty in Russia

• “Novye izvestiya” on the middle class

• “Novye izvestiya” on a reduction of salaries

• “Vedomosti”, “Novye izvestiya” and “Kommersant” on unemployment

• “Novye izvestiya” on layoffs at large enterprises

• “NG v Belorussii” on the parasite tax in Belarus

• “Kommersant” on harmful workplaces

• “Gazeta.ru” on forbidden professions for women

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the funded pension system

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on evaluating the supply of doctors

• “Novye izvestiya” on surrogate alcohol

• “Gazeta.ru” on mortality in road accidents

• “Project Syndicate” on obesity

• “Kommersant” on the high cost of examinations for migrants

• “Kommersant” on fines for foreigners working outside of their profession

• “Ekho” on labor migration from Azerbaijan and Ukraine

• “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda” on the agreement between Kazakhstan and Belarus on readmission

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on Russians’ diminishing intentions to emigrate

• “Yle” on the costs and benefits of immigrants from Finland

• “Russkaya Germaniya” on emigrants and Russian pensions

• “Slon.ru” on human trafficking

• “Slon.ru” on climate refugees

• “RBK” on an efficiency rating of passports

• “Gazeta.ru” on the ethnic affairs agency

• “Gudogar.org” on the status of Russian compatriots in Turkmenistan

• “Expert Online” on the gender ratio

• “Ekspert” on housing in Russia

• “Novaya gazeta” on rural Russia

• “Slovo.kg” on the problems of residents of settlements near tailing dumps

• “NG-religii” and “Gazeta.ru” on a forecast of the number of adherents of various religions

• “La Stampa” on the spread of Islam

• “Kommersant” on the attitudes of Russians to Ukrainians

• “Dni.com.ua” on why the Dutch are so tall

• “Sabah” on happiness

Read books and newspapers

• The backbone of modern India’s economy and population distribution.

• Ethnic atlas of the Stavropol Krai

• Health and demographic indicators of the Russian Federation in 2013

• Demographic yearbook of the Kirgiz republic: 2009-2013

• Professions of the welfare state

• Through the pages of the magazines “Profilaktichesksya meditsina” (“Preventive Medicine”) and “Mir Rossii. Sotsiologiya, Etnologiya” (“Universe of Russia. Sociology, ethnology”)

• Contents of the journal “Population and Development Review”

Profession: researcher

• Demography at the XVI April International Scientific Conference of the Higher School of Economics

• Gala evening dedicated to the 80^th birthday of A.G. Vishnevsky

• Happy birthday to Julia Fridrihovna Florinskaya

Student Page

• Open Doors Day at the Institute of Demography