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Current topic: Youth migration in Russia

• Demographic statistics to aid the study of youth migration

• Record-keeping: despite methodological differences, the geography barely changes

• What the census data show

• Where high school grads enroll

• Results of student migration: an overall rating of regions

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

International migration, 2015

• According to UN estimates, in 2015 there were 244 million international migrants

• The number of refugees as of mid-2015 was estimated at 19.6 million people

• The USA remains the undisputed leader in the accumulated number of international migrants – 46.6 million people as of mid-2015

• The largest number of emigrants comes from India: 15.6 million as of mid-2015

• Among international migrants there is an increasing share of people aged 25-59 – in 2015 it exceeded 60%

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Student migration in the North Caucasus: causes, geography and potential problems

• On the impact of migration on the age structure of the population in the regions, cities and districts of Russia

• The age structure of the population of Russia and its impact on internal migration

• A comparative analysis of the dynamics of the migration increase among the elderly population of the Samara region

Q&A

• Attitudes to banning abortion

• Anti-abortion measures have not found popular support

• What will happen if baby-boxes are banned?

• Baby-boxes: abolish or leave them?

In the vastness of Russia

• Russia’s population will reach 147.4 million by 2019

• In Russia over the first nine months fertility exceeded mortality

• By 2019 the working-age population will have fallen by 3.7 million people

• By 2035 the Russian government expects a reduction in the number of people employed in the economy

• In 35 years could Chinese become the second largest ethnic group in Russia?

• The highest life expectancy in Russia is in Ingushetia

• Residents of St. Petersburg don’t live as long as Muscovites

• In Russia, mortality from all major causes has decreased

• Russia’s economy is stabilizing

• Almost half of Russians are ready to work for “gray” wages

• Only 15% of Russians are satisfied with their salary

• Kudrin opposes introduction of “tax on parasitism”

• Finance Ministry proposes to introduce poverty relief

• About a third of Russian single-industry towns are in a difficult situation

• More than 1.3 million places in kindergartens have been created in past three years

• In the regions of Russia daycare facilities for students' children of preschool age will be provided by universities

• Human Rights Council proposes to introduce a single payment for foster children throughout Russia

• Ministry of Labor wants to pass a law to change the amount of unemployment benefits

• The number of those wishing to emigrate from Russia has not increased?

• Interior Ministry is told where a third of new Russian citizens come from

• The price of a work license for migrants in Moscow will remain unchanged in 2017

• Human Rights Council preparing bill on amnesty for certain categories of migrants

• Nationalities Agency to deal with adaptation of migrants

• Foreigners cured of TB will be allowed back into Russia

• Putin calls interethnic harmony a priority for Russia

• The number of HIV carriers in Russia is growing

• Medvedev approves strategy against HIV

• Government has allocated 2.28 billion rubles for HIV and hepatitis

• Around half of Russians die from heart and vascular diseases

• In hospitals, a dramatic increase in patient mortality

• In Russia, about 25 million people live in a pre-diabetic state

• Two-thirds of Russians against a complete ban on abortion

• 73% of Russians against ban of baby-boxes

• Russia is a leader in the development of reproductive technologies

• More than 900,000 Russians have received high-tech medical care in 2016

• Golikova calls for financing high-tech medical care from the budget

• “Zemsky Doctor” program extended to 2017

• Government won’t raise prices on vital medicines

• “Memorial” reports doubling of the number of political prisoners in Russia for the year

World news

• Uzbekistan’s population is almost 32 million people

• Japan’s population has declined by almost 1 million over five years

• Population of New Zealand will reach 5 million by 2020

• Does the flow of migrants threaten the comfortable life of New Zealanders?

• In the first nine months of 2016, Latvia’s population decreased by 4,636 people

• Men in Belarus make up 46.5% of the population

• In Finland life expectancy is increasing

• Australia to set new record for life expectancy

• Uzbekistan passes employment program for 2017

• State structures of Tajikistan will stop employing dual nationals

• Kazakhstan unilaterally simplifies visa regime with Estonia

• Over the past decade more than 1.5 million people have left Germany

• One Ukrainian in three would like to leave the country

• More and more Russian-speaking inhabitants leaving Latvia

• Canada to take in 300,000 migrants in 2017

• Foreigners arriving in Kirgizia will be required to register

• In the United States, an increase in the number of migrants from other continents of the world

• Slovenia preparing for new wave of migration

• Italian Coast Guard reports saving about a thousand migrants

• 4,000 migrants removed from French Calais

• Camp of illegal immigrants in Paris will be dismantled

• Australia closes door to refugees

• The number of refugees from South Sudan has almost doubled

• Most Kirgiz migrants in Turkey working illegally

• By 2030, 5.5 million women will die each year worldwide from cancer

• Korean women have begun “black protest” against abortion ban

• Scientists have found cause of the loss of young people’s interest in sex

• Taiwan could become first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage

The newspapers write about…

• “Ogonyok” on the costs of optimizing the health care system

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on mortality from cardiovascular diseases

• “RBK” on the increase of mortality at home

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on mortality from the flu

• “RBK” and “Novye Izvestiya” on the prevalence of HIV in Russia

• “The Insider” on HIV-dissidents

• “Kommersant” on a register of people with HIV

• “Izvestiya” on the reduction of alcohol consumption among the young

• “Life” on treating alcoholism

• “TASS” on pro-family policy

• “Life” on “voluntary human extinction”

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” and “Open Democracy” on the fight against abortion

• “Radio Vatican” on the Church and abortion

• “Vedomosti” on aging and economic growth

• “Deutsche Welle” on the limits of human life

• “Radio Svoboda” on emigration from Russia

• “Die Welt” on refugees in Germany

• “Ridus” on Chinese in Russia

• “REGNUM” on the outflow of Russians from North Ossetia

• “Vedomosti” and “Polit.ru” on the Russian nation

• “Kommersant” and “Polit.ru” on a tax “on parasites”

• “Kommersant” on staff shortages in Russian agriculture

• “Polit.ru” and “RBK” on poverty relief

• “Kommersant” on young people who live with their parents

• “Novye Izvestiya” on female circumcision in Dagestan

• “Life” on transgenders and transsexuals

• “Kommersant” on correcting genetic defects using IVF

• “Novye Izvestiya” on air pollution

Read books and magazines

• Youth Health: A Comparative Study of Russia, Belarus, Poland

• Summary report on the migration situation, the results and main areas of focus of the Federal Migration Service for 2015

• Women and men of Kazakhstan, 2011-2015

• Urban Europe. Statistics on cities, towns and suburbs

• Regions of the Republic of Belarus. Socio-economic indicators.

• Through the pages of the journals “Sotsiologiya Meditsiny” (“Sociology of Medicine”) and “Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya” (“The global economy and international relations”)

• Contents of the “European Journal of Population”

Demographic Digest

• The cost of living longer: Projections of the effects of prospective mortality improvement on economic support ratios for 14 advanced economies

• A century of trends in adult human height

• BONUS: How many authors does it take to write an article?

Profession: researcher

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• 95 years since the birth of Yury Aleksandrovich Polyakov