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Current topic: Russia’s Russia’s demographic challenges. Part two. Fertility and mortality

• Challenges of low fertility

• Factors of the dynamics of fertility indicators

• A belated contraceptive revolution

• Challenges of high mortality

• The huge lag behind developed countries has not been overcome

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

Worldwide fertility trends according to estimates of the UN 2017 Revision

• The number of births has stabilized at about 140 million people a year, the crude birth rate has been steadily declining

• Total fertility has dropped to 2.5 children per woman

• The net reproduction rate has decreased to 1.1 daughters per woman

• The mean age of mother at birth is increasing almost everywhere

• Age profiles of fertility vary; the greatest differences are observed at low fertility

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The dependence of life expectancy on educational attainment in Russia

• Women in public service in Russia: career, family, reproductive intentions

• Current fertility trends in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Q&A

• Discrimination against women and harassment

• Being a mother in Russia - 2017

• The effectiveness of Russian health care and the Mandatory Health Insurance system

• The problem of HIV/AIDS in Russia

• What do we know about HIV, and how to deal with it?

In the vastness of Russia

• Putin speaks of new family support measures

• Will Putin’s initiatives lead to demographic growth?

• Golodets announces time-frame and cost of “reset” of demographic program

• Prolonging the maternity capital program will require 100 billion rubles

• 20 billion rubles to be allocated for large families

• Russia will lose 10 million working-age youth by 2030

• Kudrin predicts Russia will fall behind in the high-tech race

• Russians with higher education can live 5-10 years longer than those without

• Medvedev allows possibility of exempting poor Russians from taxes

• Russia’s most comfortable region is Tatarstan

• Women will be actively recruited onto labor market

• Labor productivity in Moscow is 2.5 times higher than the average for Russia

• Moskalkova to check information on depriving Crimeans of citizenship

• Government reduces quota for issuing residence permits to foreigners

• Federation Council ratifies labor recruitment agreement with Uzbekistan

• Citizens will be given right to unregister migrants themselves

• At the end of 2016 Russia had over 1,114,000 people with HIV

• Russia takes third place in world for HIV infection

• The number of people with HIV growing among the elderly and rural residents

• In Russian prisons, a rapidly growing number of people with HIV

• In Moscow, 4.5 million people tested for HIV annually

• One Russian in ten considers the spread of HIV a “contrived problem”

• In Russia, production will begin of syringes with protection from re-use

• Over 450,000 people die from drugs each year

• Ministry of Health proposes ban on hookahs in cafes and restaurants

• 500,000 new cancer cases in Russia each year

• In Russia, the incidence of acute hepatitis A has increased 1.6 times

• Abortions will be done only in specially licensed health facilities

• Most disabled people cannot get to a polyclinic on their own

• Medvedev to give instructions to explore possibility of extending Zemsky Doctor program to small towns

• Will heart attack victims be saved on the spot?

• Russia needs a breastfeeding fashion

• ROC will not marry people who have been married more than three times

• Prosecutor General’s Office names the most criminal regions

World news

• Within thirty years Lithuania will lose one third of its population

• Nazarbayev orders increase in life expectancy of citizens to 80 years

• By 2025, will Muslims represent 14% of Europe’s population?

• USSR losses during the Holodomor come to 8.7 million people

• In Belarus, people getting married later

• 250 million migrants in the world

• US Supreme Court authorizes Trump administration to apply migration ban

• US government has calculated the number of green cards issued to relatives of immigrants

• Countries of the EU and Africa adopt “emergency plan” to combat human trafficking

• Refugee camps in Libya contain between 400 and 700 thousand migrants

• Can Ukrainian refugees in Russia expect an amnesty?

• Only 10% of refugees from Haiti are granted asylum in Canada

• A mere 1% of internally displaced persons plan to return soon to Donbass

• 1,778 Kirgiz citizens in foreign prisons

• Volume of remittances to Moldova continues to grow

• Only 70% of those with HIV are aware of their condition

• UN expects to halt AIDS epidemic by 2030

• In Lithuania, an increase in the number of HIV cases

• Europeans spent 0.9% of EU GDP on alcohol

• In the Philippines, 733,000 children vaccinated with a dangerous drug

• The use of antibiotics without cause provokes 700,000 deaths a year

• WHO ranks the most unhealthy countries

• IVF increases the likelihood of premature birth

• In the US, woman with transplanted womb gives birth for first time to healthy baby

• Country with the world’s fattest men has been named

• Over half of American children will be obese by the age of 35

• Family life saves from senile dementia

• Experts question data on impact of air pollution on health

• In the future, could people live up to 140 years?

The newspapers write about…

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, “Vedomosti”, “Snob”, “Novaya Gazeta”, “Sobesednik” and “Svobodnaya Pressa” on measures to support fertility

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the rights of pregnant workers

• “RBK” and “Ekho Moskvy” on a superfluous 15 million people in the provinces

• “Novye Izvestiya” on emigration, agglomerations and regional development of Russia

• “REGNUM” on emigration from Russia

• “Lenta.ru” on rural Russia

• “Strelka Magazine” on Moscow and other agglomerations

• “Takie Dela” on the flow of population from the provinces to the capital

• “URA.RU” on the reduction of labor migration to Russia

• “Rosbalt” on a migration agreement between Russia and Uzbekistan

• “Die Welt” on Muslims in Europe

• “InoSMI” on attitudes towards Muslim refugees in the “VisegradGroup” countries

• “Le Figaro” on a report on discrimination against Muslims

• “Le Figaro on slavery in Libya

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on the retirement age

• “Vedomosti” on losses of servicemen in 2012-2016

• “FAN” on STOP HIV/AIDS week

• “Tagesspiegel” on the fact that AIDS can be stopped

• “Independent” and “RBK” on the problem of HIV/AIDS in Russia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on new diseases

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on medical tourism in Russia

• “Daily Telegraph” on diabetes

• “The New York Times” on the harm of sugar

• “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“ on China’s “toilet revolution“

• “Forbes” on the “medical” charity of billionaires

• “Radio OZODI” on virginity testing for Uzbek schoolgirls

• “dixinews.kz” on sex education of teenagers in Kazakhstan

• “Kommersant” on modern youth

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the population of Ukraine

• “Novye Izvestiya” on “gender ideology”

• “Politiken” on God’s gender

Read books and magazines

• World population prospects. The 2017 revision

• HIV/AIDS Surveillance In Europe 2017

• A Longitudinal Approach to Family Trajectories in France

• Population and Demographic Processes 2016 (Bulgaria)

• Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2016

• Through the pages of the journals “Vestnik MGU. Seriya 5. Geografiya” (“MSU Bulletin. Part 5. Geography”)

• Contents of the journal “Population”

Demographic digest

• Parents’ time with a partner in a cross-national context: A comparison of the United States, Spain, and France

• Influence of heterogamy by religion on risk of marital dissolution: a cohort study of 20,000 couples

• BONUS: Close attention to struggling cities

Profession: researcher

• Demographic development of Russia in the global context: Divergence or convergence? International Conference of the Institute of Demography and the International Laboratory for Population and Health Studies of the Higher School of Economics

• 250 years since the birth of Karl Fedorovich Herman

• Congratulations to Lydia Mikhailovna Prokofieva on receiving the French Order of Academic Palms

Student’s page

• Winter School of the Department of Social Sciences for new master’s degree candidates of the Higher School of Economics