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Current topic: Jews in post-Soviet space: new demographic data

• The number of Jews is decreasing, where they live is changing

• Capital cities – places of concentration

• Dynamics and differentiation of fertility

• Rapid aging continues, but there is an exception – Azerbaijan

• Destinations and sources of contemporary emigration

• Some characteristics of migration from Russia to Israel

• A reverse flow

• The latest data

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

• Demographic results of the first six months of 2016 (part 1)

• Russia’s population continues to grow; as of July 1, 2016 it was 146,700,000 people, an increase of 0.08% over the first six months

• Natural decrease shrank by 1.9 times, while net migration increased by 1.3 times compared to January-June 2015

• In January-June 2016 0.2% more children were born than in the same period in 2015

• In the first half of 2016 the number of registered marriages declined by 12%, while the number of divorces increased by 2% compared to the same period in 2015

Through the eyes of the analysts

• A demographic portrait of the Jews of Azerbaijan, 1959-1989

• Migrant families in the Russian Federation: the ethnic dimension (according to the censuses of 2002 and 2010)

• An ethnic map of the Stavropol region: space-time dynamics over the last half century

• The 2009 census in Kazakhstan: the question about religion

Take care of women!

• Are abstinence programs a thing of the past?

• HIV/AIDS. WHO newsletter #360

• The negative consequences of adolescent abortion are greatly exaggerated

In the vastness of Russia

• The number of deaths in Russia in the first six months decreased by 27,000 people

• In St. Petersburg, the rise in mortality has stopped

• The population of the Moscow Region increased by over 80,000 people over the past year

• Life expectancy in the Moscow region has exceeded 72 years

• The outflow of population from the Far East has decreased four-fold

• Titov thinks it ridiculous to raise the retirement age at this stage

• Instead of indexation, pensioners will receive a one-time payment

• Medvedev has proposed to even out the country’s socio-economic situation

• Duma proposes a preferential mortgage for newlyweds

• Does Russia need a Ministry of the Family?

• Unemployment in Russia fell to 5.3% in July

• Moscow authorities plan to receive 12 billion rubles from migrants in 2016

• Is double taxation driving migrants out of Moscow?

• Novosibirsk authorities have banned migrant workers from driving buses and taxis

• Ban on work for migrants has caused different reactions in Novosibirsk

• Experts have found out where most migrants settle in Moscow

• From January to July 2016, 10,180 people died in traffic accidents on Russian roads

• Russian tuberculosis the deadliest in the world

• Russia may allow the online sale of alcohol, tobacco and medicines

• Ministry of Health explains its refusal to consider mortality an indicator of the quality of medical service

• Demand for doctors in Russia has increased by 12 times over past five years

• Government has allocated 1.5 billion rubles for medication for children with disabilities

• Russia will create a single pharmaceutical register

• Some medical devices may disappear from the Russian market

• 80% of Russians ignore politics

World news

• In 25 years of independence the population of Estonia has shrunk by 17%

• The population of Ukraine as of July 1 was 42,658,000 people

• The population of Kiev is 2,909,400 people

• Life expectancy in Kazakhstan has increased by 4.4 years since the country became independent

• Plan to raise Germany’s retirement age to 69 years

• The retirement age for Israeli women may be increased to 70

• About 4.5 million people in Nigeria are in need of food aid

• According to Lukashenko, in Belarus only the lazy can’t earn money

• Entrepreneur migrants in Germany have created over a million jobs

• In the last 21 years, 144,000 people have received Latvian citizenship

• Canada increasing the number of visas to citizens of China

• About 60% of the population of Belgium consider the number of migrants excessive

• In Italy, a call to penalize countries refusing to take migrants

• In Kazakhstan, 29,500 official work permits issued to foreigners

• In Kiev, about 300,000 daily commuters

• Government of Mexico will restore “railroad for illegal migrants”

• Cancer named the leading cause of death in 12 European countries

• Twins live longer than other people

• Watching TV can make a man infertile

• Work dissatisfaction affects a person’s health after the age of 40

• In Italy, a proposal to imprison parents imposing a vegan diet on their children

• Bad ecology will cost the world $2.6 trillion annually

• The growth of negative human impact on nature has slowed down

The newspapers write about…

• “Vedomosti” on the demographic results of the first six months in Russia

• “Gigamir” on the shrinking population of Eastern Europe

• “REGNUM” on Ukraine’s demographic problems

• “Izvestiya” on mortality as an indicator of the effectiveness of the activities of the Ministry of Health

• “Lenta.ru” on inequality and health

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the launching of anonymous HIV testing

• “Primechaniya” on the consequences of shutting down NGOs involved in HIV prevention

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on vaccination

• “Slon.ru” on the ethical side of medicine

• “Vedomosti” and “Novye Izvestiya” on the bans on professions for migrants

• “Vedomosti” on Chinese students in Russia

• “InoSMI.RU” on Muslims in Europe

• “Tages anzeiger” on the prospects for growth in the number of migrants from Africa and the Middle East

• “Tages anzeiger” on transporting refugees from Egypt

• “BKS Ekspress” on the problem of an aging population

• “Forbes” on pension reform in Ukraine

• “Chas” on how to become a resident of Riga and what that will give you

• “Vedomosti” on the distinguishing features of Russian poverty

• “RBK” on teachers’ salaries

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on divorce and dividing up property

• “Newsweek” and “Novye Izvestiya” on female circumcision in Russia

• “Obozrevatel.com” on genetically modified people

• “Slon.ru” on the fertility rate of twins

• “Gazeta.ru” on the consequences of bombing Hiroshima

• “Novye Izvestiya” on mortality from bioweapons in the USSR

• “Zerkalo Nedeli” on Ukraine’s civilizational path

Read books and magazines

• Statistics of Road Traffic Accidents in Europe and North America

• Netherlands. Health Systems in Transition

• Demographic Yearbook of the Republic of Belarus

• The Russian Economy in 2015

• Readings on refugee law: decisions, documents, materials

• Through the pages of the magazines “Narodonaseleniye”(“Population”) and “Obshchestvo i ekonomika”(“Society and Economics”)

• Contents of the “Population Bulletin”

Demographic Digest

• Introduction

• Demographic metabolism at work

• Quantifying economic dependency

• A unified framework of demographic time

• Estimating indicators of fertility timing from consecutive census data on children ever born

• The determinants of the marriage market in Spain at the end of the XIX century

• What is the influence of childhood exposure to cultural norms?

• The role of segregation and community composition in explaining migrant fertility

• Subjective life expectancy: differences by smoking, education and gender

Profession: researcher

• 110 years since the birth of Boris Tsezarevich Urlanis

• On the 110^th anniversary of the birth of B.T. Urlanis

• Correspondence with leaders

• Happy birthday to Anatoly Ivanovich Antonov!