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Russian Demographic barometer

Russia: preliminary demographic results of 2017 (Part II)

• In 2017, the number of deaths decreased by 3.4% - to 1,824,000 people, or 12.4‰

• Life expectancy at birth in 2017 exceeded 72 years

• Mortality has declined from all major classes of causes of death

• Mortality from external causes is the lowest for the period since 1980 - 95 deaths per 100 thousand people

• Infant mortality has decreased to 5.5‰

• Mortality at working age continues to decline, with the exception of mortality from infectious diseases

Online polling (results)

• Should cohabitation be equated with an official marriage?

Take care of women!

• Russia ranks 71^st among 144 countries in terms of gender equality

• New Family Planning Guide

• UN experts: restricting abortion rights in Northern Ireland is tantamount to legalized violence

• Life expectancy in Moscow may grow to 78 years

• The number of marriages in Russia is growing

• Ministry of Labor warns of great risks of poverty among young families with children

• State Duma passes law on raising minimum wage to subsistence level

• Real incomes of Russians in January fell by half

• Golodets calls raising pensions to 25,000 rubles a priority

• Payout procedure for the birth of a first child will be set by the Ministry of Labor

• Everyone needs the maternity capital, not just the poor

• Patriarch calls having children a woman’s main “mission”

• ROC does not support equating church wedding with marriage registration in registry office

• Moscow in top ten of ranking of European cities of the future

• Ministry of Labor will increase unemployment benefits

• “Now you can have three careers in a lifetime”

• Is Russia’s IT specialist drain over?

• Rosstat records outflow of North Koreans from Russia

• Migrants will be allowed to register at “places of sleep and rest”

• Ministry of Finance proposes to postpone start of online alcohol sales until 2019

• Skvortsova announces increase in life expectancy of diabetes patients

• In Russia, 10 out of 100 traffic accidents involving victims have fatal outcome

• Air travel in Russia 4 times more dangerous than in Europe

• Threefold increase in the number of obese youth

• Experts determine the “value” of a human life in Russia

• Russia to begin forecasting incidence of acute respiratory infections

• Russians will be entitled to free IVF for birth of second and third child

• Golodets proposes expanding the list of mandatory vaccinations for children

• GPs have appeared in all polyclinics in Moscow

• Doctors from state and private hospitals should have equal pension rights

• Ministry of Health will tighten control over mandatory health insurance

• Center for Strategic Research proposes that citizens co-finance healthcare

• Antibiotics beginning to be produced in Russia

• Ministry of Health has prepared new order regarding electronic prescriptions

• Can the church correct the orientation of gays?

• Russia will launch biometric verification system

World news

• Population of Kazakhstan increased by 231,000 people over the year

• By 2040 the population of Turkey will increase by 20 million people

• Turkey has decided to deurbanize

• Russian-speaking population of Finland is the largest language minority in the country

• Croatia records lowest number of births in 100 years

• By 2050 Europe will lose a third of its economically active population

• By 2050 35% of China’s population will be over 60

• Kirgizia conducts first study on the aging of the population

• Could life expectancy exceed 115 years?

• The Japanese will be able to work after age 70 without retiring

• Belstat draws portrait of average Belarusian man

• Iceland world’s safest country

• Great Britain’s official exit from the EU will take place 29 March, 2019

• Uzbekistan Ministry of Justice preparing to ease passport regime

• UN begins to develop global migration pact

• France preparing to implement model of controlled migration

• Population of Eastern Europe migrating to more prosperous neighboring countries

• More and more Europeans leaving Britain

• Ukraine has lost 7% of its working-age population since 2015

• Each month 100,000 citizens leave Ukraine

• The outflow of specialists from Kazakhstan has increased

• Migrant laborers from Moldova heading to Israel and EU instead of Russia

• Norway has taken in over 20,000 migrants from Syria in past three years

• Israel begins mass expulsion of Ukrainian citizens

• Georgian citizens offered 3000 euros to return home from Germany

• Resettlement of Rohingya from Bangladesh to Myanmar begins

• In Lithuania, HIV-infected people will be treated immediately

• 60,000 Estonians suffer from alcohol dependence

• Kirgizia takes 79^th place in world in terms of infant mortality

• Vaccination of pregnant women is safe for infants

• Contraceptive pills do not cause depression in women

The newspapers write about…

• “TASS”, “FederalPress”, “Vesti.RU”, “OTV”, “Izvestiya” on the President’s message

• “RBK” on the new May decrees

• “PRIME”, “Moskovskiy Komsomolets”, “Svobodnaya PRessa” on pensions

• “Double pension” promised by authorities will have to wait 30 years

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on medical errors

• “Novye Izvestiya” on pressure on doctors

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on a program for the elderly

• “Kommersant” on changes in the traffic rules

• “Meduza” on remarks by the head of Chuvashia’s Ministry of Health concerning infertility

• “Izvestiya” on infidelity

• “Bumaga” on paternity leave

• “Atlantico” on surrogate motherhood

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on marriages with foreigners

• “Novye Izvestiya” on fertility as a harbinger of changes

• “Sputnik”, “The Guardian” on Armenia’s population

• “Kavkaz.Realii” on North Ossetia’s shrinking population

• “Radio Svoboda” on sick prisoners

• “Telekanal 360” on healthcare priorities in the Moscow region

• “Kommersant Ogonyok” on a new heart disease

• “Politico” on the HIV epidemic

• “Videnskab” on sports injuries

• “Kommersant” on the upcoming closing of pharmacies

• “Financial Times” on private medicine

• “Novye Izvestiya” on a healthy life style

• “Yeni Safak”, “El Espectador” on mass killings in the USA

• “Zn.ua” on the Holodomor

• “7x7” on the economy

• “Kommersant” on incomes through the eyes of Rosstat

• “Fergana” on a migrant blacklist

• “Die Welt” on the popularity in Germany of the name Mohammed

• “Forbes” on the labor market for robots

Read books and magazines

• Russia in reform

• Russia and EU member countries. 2017

• New approaches to death in cities during the health transition

• Transformation of the rural settlement of Ukraine

• Is fertility a leading economic indicator?

• Through the pages of the journals “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” (“Social aspects of public health”) and “Problemy prognozirovaniya” (“Problems of forecasting”)

• Contents of the journal “Genus”

The reading room

• Demographic Encyclopedia

Profession: researcher

• 85th Anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Borisov

• “Fertility Prospects” (on the occasion of the 85^th birthday of V.A. Borisov). Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences