Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

## 697-698

Current topic: The population of Russia against the background of the OECD and BRICS

  • Problems of comparability and comparison

  • Russia’s contribution to world population will shrink

  • The demographic burden on the working age population of Russia will continue to grow, but aging will be slower than in many OECD countries

  • The evolution of the age structure in the proportions of age groups

  • Links to related topics

  • Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Migration in Russia: results of the first half of 2016

  • Net migration in Russia increased in January-June 2016 by 1.3 times

  • Russia’s greatest migration increase for January-June 2016 came from migration exchange with Ukraine - 69 thousand people

  • The volume of Russia’s internal migration continues to grow, increasing in the first half of 2016 by 1%

  • The population of 83 out of 85 regions increased due to migration exchange with CIS countries, that of 15 regions to exchange with other regions

  • About a quarter of those replenishing Russia’s population through migration in 2015 were people aged 25 to 34

  • The number of foreign nationals with a valid permit to work in Russia has decreased to 174,000 people, those with a patent - to 1.487 million

Through the eyes of the analysts

  • The population explosion, the aging population and labor-saving technologies: their interaction in the 21st century

  • Poverty and inequality in the BRICS countries: Russian specificity

  • The cancellation of China’s one-child policy

  • On pressing problems of improving work in statistics

  • The middle class of BRICS countries as a driving force of new global economic growth

Take care of women!

  • Has the problem of maternal mortality been solved in rich countries?

In the vastness of Russia

  • In three years will average life expectancy in Russia reach 75 years?

  • The crisis not hindering fertility growth in Russia

  • The authorities are preparing proposals to stimulate fertility in Russia

  • Golodets supports the idea of encouraging women who give birth to two children before the age of 30

  • Infant mortality in Russia has reached a historic low

  • Ministry of Health names the region with the lowest infant mortality rate

  • Sevastopol’s population growing only thanks to migrants

  • The number of marriages in Moscow has fallen by 10%

  • Cabinet proposes to carry out census using the Internet

  • Authorities not yet planning to raise retirement age in Russia

  • Russian economy is sliding into a demographic hole

  • Medvedev confident of possibility of carrying out President’s “May decrees”

  • Government approves law on single payment to pensioners

  • Ministry of Finance proposes not to index pensions of working pensioners in 2017-2019

  • 30% of pensioners are dissatisfied with government’s decision on lump-sum payment instead of indexation

  • Government is discussing issue of indexation of maternity capital

  • Nabiullina says labor market putting no pressure on economy

  • Russia may limit medical aid to “moochers”

  • Ministry of Health proposes to make registration of persons with HIV mandatory

  • In 2016 the level of mortality from tuberculosis among prisoners was halved

  • Medical institutions in the first half of 2016 reduced purchases of medicines

  • In Moscow will appear a network of medical centers to help stroke victims

  • Proposal in Russian Orthodox Church to make deductions from doctors’ salaries for conducting abortions

  • In Russia, the number of female prisoners has decreased by 10% over the year

  • Ministry of Communications will create site concerning the country’s most dangerous roads

World news

  • China’s population will have shrunk by 1.5-2 times by the end of the century

  • Beijing preparing for sharp increase in the number of women in childbirth

  • Population of Ukraine continues to decline

  • Czech Republic’s population has grown thanks to migrants from Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania

  • In the Baltic countries population continues to decline

  • Latvia’s main goal: three million inhabitants by 2050

  • Ukrainian government intends to assess the country’s real demographic situation

  • Mortality of working-age men in Belarus is 3-4.5 times higher than in the EU

  • Finns concerned about fertility decline for the fifth consecutive year

  • Retirement age in Estonia may be raised to 70

  • For 100 euros you can become an “electronic citizen” of Estonia

  • Juncker announces idea to create information system for those entering the EU

  • New Zealand sets immigration record

  • Record number of refugees in the OECD countries

  • Most Germans do not approve of government migrant policy

  • Merkel plans to abandon “We can do it” slogan

  • Migration can help Germany, but is it irrelevant for other countries?

  • France building a wall against migrants on the border with the UK

  • Japan to allot additional $2.8 billion to help solve world’s migration crisis

  • European Union allots €115 million to Greece to address migration issue

  • Bulgaria asks EU for $180 million to address migration issue

  • George Soros has promised to invest $500 million in start-ups of refugees

  • Israel may reconsider migration policies for attracting qualified professionals

  • In Kazakhstan work about 13,000 labor migrants from the EAEC

  • Almost 20% of Kirgiz citizens working abroad

  • About 350 labor migrants from Kirgizia

  • each year die outside of the country

  • In Germany, over 350 migrant children under 14 years of age are married

  • Mortality of women during childbirth has decreased globally by 44% over last 25 years

  • In Kirgizia, increasing mortality from malignant neoplasms

  • The most expensive country to give birth in is the USA

  • Scientists have determined the safe term of pregnancy for giving birth to twins

  • Each year the global economy loses $5.1 trillion due to premature deaths from air pollution

  • China’s hospitals are overburdened

  • Google to block data in India on how to determine the sex of a child

  • 40% of single Japanese are virgins

  • Nearly a fifth of Finnish nurses may be replaced by robots

  • Australia to hold referendum on legalization of gay marriage

  • Is one in five senior managers a psychopath?

The newspapers write about…

  • “TASS” on the demographic situation in Russia

  • “Life” on Russia’s demographic problems

  • “RBK” on the crisis and fertility

  • “Kompaniya” on stimulating fertility

  • “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on preferential mortgages for families with children

  • “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on children’s rooms in universities

  • “Vedomosti” on vacation affairs and increasing fertility

  • “Lenta.ru” on Russia’s reproductive potential

  • “Izvestiya” on lowering the number of teenage abortions

  • “Kommersant-Saratov” and “Metro” on collecting signatures for the removal of abortion from the Mandatory Medical Insurance system

  • “Obozrevatel.com” on the second sexual revolution

  • “Lenta.ru” on voluntary childlessness

  • “Umj.com.ua” on WHO plan to combat non-communicable diseases

  • “Vesti.RU” on maternal mortality

  • “Kommersant” on the HIV-dissident movement

  • “Kommersant” on monitoring persons with HIV

  • “Polit.ru” on paid medical care for the unemployed

  • “Life” on electronic cigarettes

  • “Telegraf” on Europe’s demographic problems

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the migration crisis

  • “Project Syndicate” on the refugee problem

  • “Deutsche Welle” on repatriating refugees from Germany

  • “NRK” on a fence on the Russian-Norwegian border

  • “Hegestorhaug.blogg” on the polygamy problem in Norway

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on citizenship for Ukrainian emigrants

  • “24.kg” on remittances from Kirgiz migrants

  • “Kommersant” on exporting Russian education

  • “Vladnews.ru” on the free hectare and the demographic problems of the Far East

  • “Izvestiya” on the project for “colonizing” Siberia and the Far East

  • “REGNUM” on Priority Development Areas

  • “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on developing aviation ambulances

  • “Ekho Moskvy” on the deportation of Soviet Germans

  • “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” on the problem of providing food in the future

  • “Novaya Gazeta” on amendments to the law “On the National Population Census”

  • “Kommersant” on feminism and patriarchy

  • “Life” on telegony and chimeras

  • “The Washington Post” on the DNA base in Kuwait

  • “Telegraf” on “giving birth without women”

  • “The New York Times” on sugar vs. fat

Read books and magazines

  • The Global Report on Migration 2015

  • Romania. Health Systems in Transition

  • Youth of Azerbaijan 2016

  • Health care in the Republic of Tajikistan

  • Key indicators of maternal and child health, activities of the child protection and obstetrics service in the Russian Federation

  • Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoye obozreniye” (“Demographic Review”) and “Akusherstvo i ginekologiya” (“Obstetrics and Gynecology”)

  • Contents of the “Journal of Marriage and Family”

Demographic digest

  • A harmonized dataset on global educational attainment between 1970 and 2060 – an analytical window into recent trends and future prospects in human capital development

  • Does corruption promote emigration? An empirical examination

  • Differences in Attitudes towards Immigration between Australia and Germany: The Role of Immigration Policy

  • Bonus: Demographic history in pictures

Profession: researcher

  • International training programs "Population and Development" and "Demographic Forecasting"

  • 80 years since the birth of Oleg Sergeyevich Pchelintsev

  • Remembering Oleg Pchelintsev

  • Regions of Russia: their current state and the problem of transition to sustainable development

  • Life as a free choice

 
 
 
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