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Current topic: The population of Russia according to UN population prospects

• UN population prospects: the last 7 revisions

• Fertility assumptions

• Mortality assumptions

• Migration assumptions

• Russia’s population size projections

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Russia: preliminary demographic results of 2016 (Part II)

• In 2016 the number of deaths decreased by 1.2% to 1.888 million people, or 12.9 ‰

• Life expectancy at birth ranges from 63 years in the Tyva Republic to 80 years in Ingushetia

• In 2016 there was a decrease in mortality from the major causes of death, except for certain infectious and parasitic diseases

• Mortality from external causes declined in 2016 to 105 deaths per 100 thousand people, which is almost the same level as in 1986-1987

• In January-December 2016 the infant mortality rate in Russia fell to 6 ‰

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Demographic forecasts in modern Russia: an analysis of the results and a choice of hypotheses

• A forecast of the dynamics of population size and dependency ratio in Western Europe until 2095

• The demographic component of the territorial planning of the Tver region

Take care of women!

• An atlas of access to modern contraception

In the vastness of Russia

• By 2025, Russia’s labor force will have shrunk by 5.4 million people

• By 2035, the population of St. Petersburg could rise to 6.6 million people

• Have 67% of subjects of the Russian Federation failed in their plan to reduce mortality?

• Mortality from heart attacks in the capital’s hospitals has decreased three-fold over the last five years

• Moscow has abolished allowances for doctors with advanced degrees and honorary titles

• Public Chamber has developed National Fertility Rating

• Moscow’s demographic boom has led to increase in the number of schoolchildren

• Higher School of Economics expert calls initiative to pay for a first child populism

• Applications for a “Far East hectare” have been made by residents of all regions of Russia

• Bill introduced in Duma to make it easier for children to receive Russian citizenship

• Russia will simplify access to Russian citizenship for residents of Transnistria

• Russia has recognized documents issued to residents of Donbass

• One million fewer foreigners entered Russia in 2016

• Tajikistan opens two new Consulate General offices in Russia

• Agency for Labour Migration in Uzbekistan will open a representative office in the Russian Federation

• Russian agitators will call overseas compatriots to Russia

• Foreign compatriots living illegally in Russia can expect migration amnesty

• Russia may amnesty some deported Tajik migrants

• Russia begins work on law on the social and cultural adaptation of migrants

• Russia may review conditions for the entry of HIV-positive foreigners

• Two thirds of people with HIV in Russia do not receive free treatment

• 49% of Russians have used homeopathic remedies

• 83% of Russians are related to each other

• Proposal in State Duma to allow parents to give a child a hyphenated surname

World News

• Tajikistan’s population may reach 11.5 million people by 2030

• The difference in life expectancy between men and women is gradually disappearing

• Female life expectancy in South Korea will exceed 90 years by 2030

• In Kirgizia, mortality and fertility are falling

• Estonian Parliament has recognized the country’s demographic situation as a problem

• Over last 20 years the number of official marriages in Estonia has been halved

• Ukraine refuses to raise retirement age for the sake of IMF loan

• In Brazil, a growing number of poor

• In Latvia and Lithuania, the minimum wage is 380 euros a month

• Six-hour working day turns out to be more cost-effective for employers

• China simplifies process of issuing identity cards

• Swiss citizens have voted in favor of simplifying access to citizenship for grandchildren of migrants

• European Commission has promised Ukraine a visa-free regime by the summer

• Trump speaks of upcoming tightening of immigration policy in the US

• Most Europeans have expressed support for Trump-style migration policies

• Europeans growing more afraid of immigrants from Islamic regions

• US eases rules for deporting illegal immigrants

• Trump explains the principles of deporting migrants from the USA

• Germany to beat record for the number of deported migrants

• Italy to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants

• Japan has accepted 28 refugees out of 11,000 who applied

• Warsaw tells of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine

• Prime Minister of Sri Lanka calls refugees home

• Kazakh employers in 2016 hired mostly Chinese

• Bavarian government bans the burqa

• Senile dementia is officially recognized as one of the main causes of death

• Sweden supports global project on women’s rights to abortion

• Lithuania’s Minister of Health does not support ban on abortion

• Can telework lead to stress and insomnia?

• Finland decides not to disclose the number of same-sex marriages

The newspapers write about …

• “Izvestiya” on Russia’s demographic achievements

• “REGNUM” on allowance for birth of first child in Bashkiria

• “Sputnik” on Tajikistan’s “demographic explosion”

• “Izvestiya” on demographic policy in different countries

• “Novye Izvestiya” on mortality from traffic accidents

• “RBK” on a lack of drugs for patients with HIV

• “Kommersant” on the rules of entry into Russia for HIV-positive foreigners

• “RBK” on electronic cigarettes

• “TASS” on maternity tourism and illegal immigration to the US

• “RT na russkom” on the losses to American universities due to Trump’s decrees

• “Kommersant” on the profitability of immigrants to the US

• “Carnegie Moscow Center” on Europe’s immigration problems

• “Novye Izvestiya” on checking schoolchildren’s registration

• “Kommersant” on the citizenship of children of Russians living abroad

• “Izvestiya” and “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on offering citizenship to compatriots living abroad

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on the problems of registration and citizenship for migrants from Ukraine

• “REGNUM” on the risks of raising the retirement age

• “Izvestiya” on the labor activity of the elderly

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on reconsidering the age limit of economic activity

• “Izvestiya” on education and employment

• “RBK” on self-employment

• “RBK” on freelancing and freelancers

• “BBC” on a guaranteed income

• “Lenta.ru” on gender and family issues in the Caucasus

• “Aeon Magazine” on mixed races

• “Rossiysky turism” on marriages with foreigners

• “RBK” on exotic names

Read books and magazines

• Population situation analysis in the Republic of Moldova

• Disability and social status of disabled people in Russia

• The population of Ukraine for the year 2015

• Key figures on Europe - 2016 edition

• Ethno-demographic processes in Kazakhstan and adjacent territories

• Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoye Obozreniye” (“Demographic Review”) and “Ekologiya cheloveka” (“Human ecology”)

• Contents of the journal “Studies in Family Planning”

Demographic digest

• On an update of the Demographic Digest project

• Strehler-Mildvan correlation is a degenerate manifold of Gompertz fit

• The Dynamics of Son Preference, Technology Diffusion, and Fertility Decline Underlying Distorted Sex Ratios at Birth: A Simulation Approach

• BONUS: Should we trust commercial projects in Academia?

Profession: researcher

• The demographic effect of anti-alcohol policy measures in Russia. Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• Master classes by Professor Salvatore Strozza

• Jan M. Hoem has died