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Current topic: China’s demographic prospects

Part two

• Fertility in China: one family – one child?

• Demographic and economic effects of the one-child policy

• China’s bleak demographic prospects

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

The population of the BRICS countries

• The combined population of the BRICS countries is about 3 billion people, or 42% of the world population, but this proportion is decreasing

• The transition to modern mortality in the BRICS countries is not completed

• In Russia, fertility has been below replacement level since the mid-1960s, in China since the 1990s, and in Brazil in the last decade

• There are signs of aging in all the BRICS countries, but the degree of aging varies greatly

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Changing China’s one-child policy: reasons and expected results

• Socio-demographic development of China in the course of reforms: new trends in the light of the XVIII Congress of the CPC

• China’s brainhunt: A lesson for Russia?

• Shanghai women in the first half of the 20^th century: from “triple obedience” to equality in marriage

Take care of women!

• Debates around reproductive rights in France

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural population increase in 2014 doubled the rate of 2013

• A shrinking of the working population is a challenge for Russia’s economy

• Rosstat sends government agencies bill on compulsory participation in the census

• A third of Moscow’s population will be retirees by the year 2020

• Is Russia not ready for a sharp increase in the retirement age?

• Siluanov believes that the issue of the retirement age must be resolved quickly

• Ulyukayev calls for gradual increase in the retirement age

• Golodets opposes raising the retirement age

• Medvedev supports proposal of deputies and ministers to raise their retirement age

• Russia may abolish the right to early retirement

• Funded part of the pension will be preserved

• Unified accounting system for benefits will be created on the basis of the Pension Fund

• Will real incomes of Russians resume their growth in the second half of the year?

• Ministry of Labor proposes to increase penalties for salaries in envelopes

• Federation Council approves law on payouts of 20 thousand rubles from the maternity capital

• Duma allows use of maternity capital for down payment on housing immediately after birth of a child

• Need may be used as a criterion in benefit payments

• Quota for foreign students at Russian universities may increase by a third

• Russians convicted of minor crimes will be able to adopt children

• Unemployment in March rose to 5.9%

• According to the head of the Ministry of Labor, the unemployment rate has slowed down

• The labor market situation in Russia is now difficult but stable

• Unemployed persons without experience should receive social benefits

• In Russia it will be possible to obtain a passport in 15 minutes

• More than 76 thousand Ukrainians have requested Russian citizenship since the start of the year

• The number of foreigners in Russia is 11 million

• Russia gives significant preferences to labor migrants from the EAEC

• FMS discusses “possibility of preferences” for migrant workers from Moldova

• FMS head says no plans for migration amnesty

• Will a part of migrant workers not be able to work in Russia without a knowledge of Russian?

• FMS announces reduction of number of illegal migrants in Russia

• The actual number of HIV-infected people in Russia is 1.4 million

• Youth mortality from drug use has decreased by more than a third over last 12 years

• Russians have begun abusing tobacco and alcohol less

• The number of disabled children over age 5 has increased by more than 9%

• The number of victims of tick bites in Russia is half that of a year ago

• More than 50% of Russians over 30 are overweight

• Russia will oppose the legalization of same-sex marriage

Eurasian panorama

• UN has counted over 6,000 fatalities during a year of conflict in Ukraine

• Kazakhstan’s population has grown by 250,000 people

• Most citizens of Tajikistan are living in poverty

• Tajikistan is the most dependent country in the world on remittances

• The decline in remittances from Russia will affect the economies of the CIS countries

• The lowest salary in Tajikistan is earned by agricultural workers

• Nominal wages in Armenia are 365 USD

• In Uzbekistan, citizens aged 100 and over will receive $50 pension increase

• 100 thousand residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic have received pensions

• New version of law on lustration submitted to Verkhovna Rada

• Migrants returning to Tajikistan do not take official jobs

• Poroshenko promises to make it easier for Russians to obtain Ukrainian citizenship

• Representative offices of migration agencies of 4 CIS countries may be opened in Russia

• In Russia a representative office of the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Youth of Kirgizia will open

• Russia and Tajikistan will prepare a new agreement on labor migration

• About half of work permits in Kazakhstan have been received by Chinese citizens

• About 7 thousand Russians working in Kazakhstan

• The number of internally displaced persons in Ukraine has reached 1.8 million people

• Refugees returning from Russia to the south-east of Ukraine, but not en masse

• Russia ratifies agreement on cooperation of CIS countries in fight against diabetes

• Health care reform in Ukraine is one of the top priorities

World news

• Over past 20 years the number of children in the EU has decreased by 10 million

• Italy simplifies divorce procedure

• Montenegrins in 2014 received 358 million euros from abroad

• Passports of Sweden and Finland are called “the most powerful”

• In Lithuania, a proposal to legalize dual citizenship

• Again a proposal in Latvia to transform the issuing of residence permits

• UN Secretary-General reports a record number of refugees since 1945

• About 500,000 illegal immigrants a year may try to reach Europe across the Mediterranean

• Rich migrants are proposed passage to Europe at 8500 euros a head

• EU approves plan for emergency measures to deal with migrant crisis

• Migration issues must be addressed at the EU-Africa summit

• EU leaders have agreed to distribute refugees over the territory of the union

• Czech Republic does not want anyone to dictate refugee “quotas”

• Latvia ready to help the Mediterranean countries in the fight against illegal immigration

• Italy may establish a naval blockade of Libya to reduce the flow of immigrants

• Over 120,000 Yemenis have fled their homes due to air strikes

• 16 thousand foreigners unable to leave Yemen

• Leaders of Armenian diaspora in the United States criticize White House for refusing to use the word “genocide’

• The number of victims of the conflict in Yemen has risen to 944 people

• The number of Ebola victims in West Africa has exceeded 10,600 people

• Every day, 160 people in the world die from rabies

• Unknown deadly disease in Nigeria could be caused by alcohol

• 47% of Estonians are experiencing constant fatigue

• The most highly paid medical specialty in the United States is that of orthopedist

• 65-year-old woman in Berlin expecting four babies

The newspapers write about…

• “Ogonyok”, “RBK” and “Kommersant” on the retirement age

• “Vedomosti” on changing the retirement age and the challenges of social policy

• “Kommersant” on the excessive level of education for the Russian labor market

• “Gazeta.ru” on “social stability”

• “RBK” on the new configuration of the maternity capital program

• “Telegraf” on support for young families in Latvia

• “Belarus sevodnya” and “Belorusy i rynok” on population growth in Belarus

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on the new immigration rules and the risk of increased illegal migration

• “NG-Politika” on labor migrants from the CIS in Russia

• “Gazeta.ru” on migrants’ problems passing exams

• “Kommersant” on the abolition of preferential treatment for Ukrainian migrants in Russia

• “Vedomosti” on the World Bank report on labor migration and remittances

• “RBK” on migrants from visa countries in Russia

• “Kommersant” on attracting educational migrants to Russia

• “NG-Politika” on the topic of migration and the Russian media

• “NG-Politika” on the impact of events in Ukraine on the national question in Russia

• “Ekspress-K” on labor migration in Kazakhstan

• “Vremya” on the migrant population of the UAE

• “Slon.ru”, “Deutsche Welle” and “The Wall Street Journal” on the problem of the influx of refugees to Europe

• “RBK” on the destinations of Russian labor migrants

• “LiveScience” on a more religious world

• “Vedomosti” on Sharia for Russian laws

• “EurasiaNet” on Islamic kindergartens in Kirgizia

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on problems and prospects of Russian health care through the eyes of the Russian Health Minister

• “Novaya gazeta” and “Kommersant” on the opinion of the Audit Chamber on the state of Russian medicine

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on a forecast of the causes of death

• “Die Welte” on “cancer hotels” in China

• “EurasiaNet” on early marriages in Georgia

• “The Washington Post” on the link between same-sex marriage and abortion

• “Gazeta.ru” on a bill on criminalization of abortion

• “Polit.ru” on marriages of closely-related persons and mutations

• “Expert Online” on the status of widows in India

• “Kommersant” on mandatory participation in the census

• “Novaya gazeta” and “The new times” on the Armenian genocide

• “Slon.ru” on life underground

Read books and magazines

• The Great Patriotic War. A jubilee collection of statistics

• On the 70^th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. A collection of statistics of the CIS Statistical Committee

• The standard of living of the population of the Kyrgyz Republic, 2009-2013

• Yaroslavl in the ring of epidemics: everyday life in the provinces during the revolution

• Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2013 (morbidity and mortality)

• Interdisciplinary studies of the population: 50 years of the university demographic school. Eighth readings in honour of Valentei

• Through the pages of the magazines “Voprosy statistiki” (“Statistical Issues”) and “Vrach” (“Doctor”)

• Contents of the journal “Population and Environment”

Profession: researcher

• Conference dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• Eighth readings in honour of Valentei

• How to overcome Russia’s life expectancy lag? Roundtable of the Institute of Demography and the journal "Demographic Review"

• Happy birthday, Galina Petrovna Kiselyova!

• Happy birthday, Olga Genrikhovna Isupova!

Satirical column

• Victims of abortion